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Maine's Great Coast Resort: Bar Harbor and Lafayette National Park
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Guidebook
  • Object, Baseball Gear, Baseball
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Camping
  • Other, Fishing
  • Other, Horseback riding
  • Other, Lafayette National Park
  • Other, Otter Cliffs
  • Other, Radio stations
  • Other, Tennis
  • Recreation, Sports, Golf
Description:
Contains brief written descriptions of activities, accommodations, and more. No date given, but mentions the Building of Arts, USN Radio Station at Otter Cliffs.
Second Annual Report and Financing Assistance for Tourism Attractions
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Maine
  • Recreation
  • Maine Recreation Authority
  • 1968
Description:
Single page folded Annual Report of the Maine Recreation Authority and a 16 page booklet, unstapled, explaining the program and legal authority for the organization to fund construction and expansion of recreational facilities in Maine. Part of LaRue Spiker Collection Previously archived as object id 012.FIC.058.6
Down East Magazine
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • Nature, Animals
  • Recreation
  • 9/1/1982
Down East Magazine
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Mount Desert Island article p.52 “Making it in Maine” Horseman of Acadia: Article about William Tapley and his work with Wildwood Stable of Seal Harbor in Acadia National Park
Down East Magazine
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • Recreation
  • 6/1/1981
Down East Magazine
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Mount Desert Island article p.81 “Rock climbers clamber ‘up the ladder’ to explore The Verticle World of Mt. Desert Text and photographs by Daniel Koch
The Last Resorts
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Recreation
  • Amory, Cleveland
  • 1948.
The Last Resorts
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Describes how the great resorts have fallen
Early Pleasures and Pastimes
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Games
  • Other, Home Economics
  • Recreation
  • Kalman, Bobbie
  • 1983
Early Pleasures and Pastimes
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Early Pleasures and Pastimes
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Games
  • Other, Home Economics
  • Recreation
  • Kalman, Bobbie
  • 1992
Early Pleasures and Pastimes
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Green Grows Bar Harbor: reflections from Kebo Valley
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Kebo
  • Recreation, Sports, Golf
  • Collier, Sargent F.
  • 1964
Green Grows Bar Harbor: reflections from Kebo Valley
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
History of Bar Harbor, with photographs by Sargent Collier. Includes chapters on Acadia National Park, social and club life, island laboratories, Bar Harbor-Yarmouth ferry, Fire of 1947, Kebo Valley Golf Club, Bar Harbor Club, Pot and Kettle Club, the Building of Arts, Great Automobile War. Mentions performances of the Boston Symphony at the Building of Arts.
Summer Yesterdays in Maine: Memories of Boyhood Vacation Days
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Maine
  • Recreation
  • Sperry, Willard L.
  • 1941
Description:
A reminiscence by the author of his vacation days beginning in 1885 and continuing for about 40 years in York Co., Maine. He pays special tribute to the illustrator, Charles H. Woodbury
More Vacation Days in Maine. Signed by the author.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Maine
  • Recreation
  • Hasenfus, Nathaniel J.
  • 1949
More Vacation Days in Maine. Signed by the author.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Sequel to We Summer in Maine by same author, but exploring further to such places as Boston, Bar Harbor, Bangor, Harpswell, Camden, Pemaquid, Mohegan [sic] and Moosehead Lake.
Basketball on MDI: Hoops Around the Island, a panel discussion, April 16,, 2009, Somesville Firehouse, Somesville, Maine.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, Reminiscence
  • Object, Basketball Gear, Basketball
  • Recreation, Sports
  • Miller, Kathy
  • 04/16/2009
Description:
A History evening, sponsored by MDI Historical Society, Basketball on MDI:Hoops Around the Island, held on Thursday, April 16, 2009 at the Somesville Firehouse.
Boy Publisher Keeps Sports Fans in the Know
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Newsletters
  • Recreation, Sports
  • LaRue Spiker writing for Ellsworth American
  • 1978
Boy Publisher Keeps Sports Fans in the Know
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Single page article with photograph featuring Jay Ramsdell, 13-year-old sports reporter. Jay wrote and edited a bimonthly newsletter on major sports teams and began a New England Patriots fan club. Previously archived as 012.FIC.047.2