Description: The boathouse just visible over "Lillian's" bowsprit belonged to William Doane Stanley (1855-1932), "Uncle Jimmy." His Chester Clement built passenger launch, "Leader" is on the shore to the right of the boathouse. Jimmy used her to carry summer people in the summer. In the winter he took off the wicker chairs etc. and used her to carry sardines to the factories.
Description: The boat in front is the "Sweet Pea'' owned by "Peter" Richardson, Great Cranberry Island. Lewis Gilley Stanley was sailing her the day the picture was taken. The yawl behind "Sweet Pea" is "Electron II" owned by Professor Holmes of the University of Vermont Physics department. He adjusted and fixed compasses for fishermen for free.
Description: This is the last photograph in the Southwest Harbor Public Library collection taken by Henry L. Rand. Looking up Dirigo Road the Dirigo Hotel is just visible at the end of the road.
Description: The brick building in the background is Pemetic High School on Main Street. The shed or barn at the left of the photograph, no longer standing, belonged to the Wilbur C. Wallace House on Clark Point Road at the corner of Maple Lane. William Edgar Herrick is driving the buggy. The children from Left to Right are: Richard Wilbur Herrick, William's grandson Gail Edith Perkins, later Mrs. David King Yvonne Marie Gallant, later Mrs. Norman N. Lambert [show more]
Description: "The Appalachian Mountain Camp at Echo Lake was established in 1922..." - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 126 - 1938. Ralph Stanley says that the Appalachian Mountain Club tents were stored in the sheds behind his house at 102-104 Clark Point Road in the 1930s. He remembers watching them hauled out of the sheds that later became his boat building shop, every Spring. [show more]
Description: Left to Right on the High Road: Robie M. Norwood Jr. House - 17 High Road - Map 5 - Lot 19 - MHPC #405-0834 Mrs. Seth S. Thornton House - 23 High Road - Map 5 - Lot 23 - MHPC #405-0835 Mt. Desert Congregational Church - 29 High Road - Map 5 - Lot 25 - MHPC #405-0836
Description: "Harvard Riley Beal’s (1897-1967) bait scow is at the far left. The fully canvassed boat behind the rigging on the left was “Frolic,” Harold L. Wedge’s (1912-1986) passenger launch. The dark boat in the right middle belonged to Leslie Stanwood King (1879-1936) who ran fish and rum in it. Spray hood boat on the far right, partly out of the picture, was Grover Ambrose Morse’s (1885-1960) boat, built by Lewis Melvin Candage (1867-1950)." [show more]