Description: Several clipped articles about the 1943 war time activity in the Town of Mount Desert. Focus on residents: Wilma Clark Eaton, Herbert Thomas (town manager), servicemen Fred Ralph, James McElroy, Ray Young, and Charles Stover.
Description: Newspaper articles on the 1947 Bar Harbor Fire: Bar Harbor Times - Thursday, November 6, 1947 (pp. 1 + 4) Bangor Daily News - Friday, October 24, 1947 (pp. 1 + 2 + 4)
Description: Copies of this paper, presented at the annual meeting of the Cranberry Club in Aug. 1986, were presented to members of the club at Christmas.
Description: Announcement by unknown radio station of what radio announcer Johnny McCray saw regarding Fire of 1947, 2 photocpies, radio announcement of description of what Superintendent of Public Works, Bangor(?) Reprint on computer
Description: 10 page Newsletter printed by Parish of St. Mary's and St. Jude. Gives curret news of the Parish and service men seerving in World War II. There is also a list of service men and their current addresses should anyone wish to write them.
Description: 10 page Newsletter printed by Parish of St. Mary's and St. Jude. Gives curret news of the Parish and service men seerving in World War II. There is also a list of service men and their current addresses should anyone wish to write them.
Description: Bub Dolliver returned home to stay in Minot Harbor, Maine. A former town terror, he hoped to erase his past from the long memory of the villagers and make them accept him as a responsible, hard working member of the community. Book was made into a film noir, Tarnished, by Republic Pictures 1950. Originally published by William Morrow & Co. 1945
Description: Incomplete proof-pages of the 1947 Gilman High School Yearbook. Photographs include one of front view of building with the town WW I & II Honor Roll. Also included is a b/w glossy photograph of the graduating class. For the complete Yearbook 1947, see Item 7204
Description: Newsletter of The Mount Desert Messenger (1945) - volume LVI. Thanksgiving/Christmas issue. Sections include: "News From The Home Front" - local and war news including recent war discharges - and "News From The Camps" - listing local soldiers and their regiments.
Description: Written when author was 85 years old, an account of her family's times at "Baymeath" in Bar Harbor. Preface is written to her grandson, Capt. Wm. McCormick Blair, Jr., who was serving during WWII in India.
Description: “Gilmanac 1944” Gilman High School yearbook - belonged to J. Walter Allen. Class of 1944 - Editorials, class members, class song, motto “We Finish to Begin”. Class notes for freshman, sophomores and juniors. Literary section with poetry etc. Basketball team pictures, records. Alumni section.