Description: Memorabilia. Polly Bunker Day August 14, 2016, celebration at GCIHS. Photos, invitation, program, hat. Co-Chairs Wini Smart and Leslie Watson, with support from the Cranberry Club. Among myriad other contributions to the island, Polly (Pauline) ran the Whale's Rib gift shop for 46 years, and she worked at the Asticou Inn on MDI, too. Large 8x10 color photos and small snapshots of photos of Polly and Tud Bunker from bygone times donated by Wini and Leslie: Polly with friends and family including Ada, Charlene Allen, Leslie Watson, Tom Watson, John Delaney, Susan White, Anne Watson, Morrie Newell, Johnna Newell, Ruth Westpha, Marilynne Fredrickson, Karin Whitney, Marianne Avery, Carl Nelson, and a special one of Polly with her sisters, Charlene, Leona, and Ada taken about 2000. A DVD of photos from Wini Smart was played at the celebration. (There are also scanned family photos that were displayed at the party.) [show more]
Description: Note from Gary Farley 9/4/13 re: Wilfred Bunker memorial service re: copy of the video slide show played for his grandfather (Wilfred Bunker) memorial service. Farley's business card attached. Associate this item with 6 hr. video interview of Wilfred Bunker (his grandfather) that still needs to be worked on.
Description: Cemetery. Stanley Cemetery conservation project completed by GCIHS Stanley Cemetery committee October 2014. Began as a family burial ground in 1838 and continues to serve islanders today. Conservation and restoration work of the 101 headstones done by Fred Wieninger of Wieninger Monuments in Milbridge, Maine. Inscriptions, digital photographs, measurements, deeds, spreadsheets, costs, blog, and photos of work and sundry details of each of 101 known graves recorded by Anne Grulich and documented in full at gcihs.org “cemetery projects” and on the GCIHS server: \Archives\atgrulich\StanleyCemetery2013_2016. Documentation in files includes minutes, research, spreadsheet, photos, administrative documents, field notes and deeds for Stanley/Storey property. See various GCIHS Cranberry Chronicle newsletters for cemetery project progress, and an article about the cemetery in Memories of Maine, Downeast Maine Edition, Summer 2015 by Camille Smalley "Restoring the Past - The Stanley Cemetery on Great Cranberry Island." [show more]
Description: Houses. Architectural and folk history. This updated 2018 report of investigation summarizes 2013-2017 research into nine Cape-style houses spawned by the 2013 discovery and repatriation of four ca. 1820-1830s shoes concealed in the chimney wall of the parsonage house of the Great Cranberry Congregational Church. The 2014 and 2018 revised report was submitted to the Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Acadia NPS, and GCIHS. Revised version is twenty-two pages with photos and bibliography as of January 18, 2018, and includes findings of a 2015 dendrochronology project. This study of the parsonage Cape-style house with its neighboring Cape-style houses and the separate 2013 study of the nearby ca. 1826 Preble house documents a cluster of historic island houses on the verge of becoming unrecognizable through remodeling. Research reveals folk practices, the oeuvre of local 19th-century house builders; Cape-style design innovations; granite and lumber sources; dendrochronology study; and early 19th-century Bulger and Spurling family histories. One of the cape houses was the birthplace of Civil War Medal of Honor General Andrew Barclay Spurling.; the Preble House was his boyhood home. See also concealed shoe research: 2013.252.1979. See 2018 Chebacco Magazine article, Concealed Shoes and Cape Houses: Artifacts as Agents of the Past by Anne Grulich [show more]
Description: Headstone rubbings. Eight headstone rubbings from several GCI cemeteries made by artist Cheryl Moore and archivist Anne Grulich as follows: (A) Sarah wife of Joseph L'Grow d. 1825, "Revolutionary War Cemetery" (Spurling cemetery #1) on hill overlooking Town Dock - by Cheryl Moore and Anne Grulich 8/2/15 (Black wax); (B) Gilman J. Stanley d. 1861 drowned at 16 years, Hardings Point cemetery- by Cheryl Moore and Anne Grulich (Black wax); (C) Henrietta C. Gilley 1857, age 17 years, Preble Cemetery, By Cheryl Moore 7/29/15 (Black wax); (D) Thomas Manchester d. 1861 and wife Henrietta, Hardings Point cemetery- by Cheryl Moore 7/29/15 (Black wax). (This is Manchester's replacement stone; original, broken stone in nearby property.) (E) Dolly Bulger d. 1884, Stanley Cemetery by Cheryl Moore 7/29/15 (Red wax); (F) Thomas Stanley d. 1838, Stanley Cemetery, by Cheryl Moore and Anne Grulich 8/2/15 (Black wax); (G) Samuel S. Bunker 1899, Bunker cemetery, by Cheryl Moore 7/29/15 (Black wax); (H) Alfred H. Gilley d. 1876, Stanley Cemetery, by Cheryl Moore 7/29/15 (Black wax). [show more]
Description: Pipe stem fragments, two white clay fragments from Spurling Cove beach ca. 2012. One well worn, white; the other better condition but charred burn on one side. Charred fragment bore hole measures 5/64" drill bit, and has impressed letters "LL" (possibly 'A'LL).
Description: The trophy awarded to the winner of the Downeast Race Week Division III. This trophy consists of a wooden base with a barograph on top. Winners' names are engraved on metal plaque screwed into the wooden base. Plaques on the base read: Down East Race Week Division III First Place Donated by Mike Chace in honor of his father, a great sailor and author who loved the sea. Smaller plaques contain the names of the winners 2018 Auriga Lawson Family 2019 Batty Hirsch Family As of 2022, 2 plaques are missing A plaque on top of the barograph has an affixed enamel burgee of the Pequot Yacht Club. Engraving on this plaque reads: Arthur Chace Commodore 1980-1981 from the Governors and Flag Officers [show more]
Description: A silver trophy plate awarded to the winner of the August Junior Championship. The names of the winners are engraved on the front. Inscription reads as follows. __________ THE NORTHEAST HARBOR FLEET CAMPBELL HENRY AUGUST JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP WON BY 1998 Sam Wheeler Lara Dominguez - Rus 1999 Lily Caldwell Team Captain 2000 Martha Somes 2001 Samuel Wheeler 2002 Samuel Wheeler 2003 Emily Kehoe 2004 Marha Somes 2005 Philip Crain 2006 Parker Brown 2007 Carson Crain 2008 Parker Brown 2009 Andrew W. Kimball 2010 Philip Koch 2011 Charlotte Toogood 2012 Coleman duPont 2013 Ned Herrington 2014 Nicolai Steinle 2015 Henry Gowen Teddy Grace 2016 Jay Henry (on reverse) 2017 Teddy Madara Liam Higgins & Jay Henry 2018 Brooks Hawkins Jay Henry & Cooper Austen 2019 Henry Dennis & Oliver Scott Childs Hauck [show more]
Description: Two trophies, each comprised of a cannon on top of a heavy wooden base. The base is ringed with metal plates that are engraved with the winners and name of the trophy as shown below, transcribed from 2022X.03.004.A. 2022X.03.004.B only has the one plaque inscribed, giving the name of the trophy __________ Commodore David Schoeder Luders Series 2013 - MaryJane Wells & Mary Bacon 2014 - 2015 - Ludicrous Art Paine & Kincaid MacCulloch 2016 - Surprise Connor Ratcliffe & Chris Booher 2017 - Ludicrous Alec Fisichella & Art Paine [show more]
Description: From the 2018 Premier Edition of Cultural adventures : Acadia and Downeast Maine. Gives background information about Wendell Gilley and describes carving classes offered by the Wendell Gilley Museum. Features photos of a great horned owl carved by Wendell Gilley as well as sandpipers carved by students in the museum's carving classes.
Description: Measles is an air-born infection caused by a paramyxovirus, mostly common in early childhood. In the present day, measles is considered an extinct disease in most parts of the world. According to WHO, in 1980, before widespread vaccination, measles caused an estimated 2.6 million deaths each year. However, in the recent years, the once eradicated disease started resurfacing in countries like New Zealand, Australia, and United States (CDC). It is one of the leading causes of death among young children even though a safe and cost-effective vaccine is available (WHO). [show more]
Description: Collection consists of three boxes of archival files donated by the Seal Harbor Library pertaining to the history of Seal Harbor village and Acadia National Park. An itemized summary of each boxes' contents is enclosed in each box. Thank you card drawn on consturction paper with the printed text "Thank You for the Magic Carpet." with a picture of a magic carpet. Inside is witten the names of children in purple crayon. In pencil on back of the card reads "Thank you note to the library board from the Story Time Children in appreciation of the new Oriental Rugs, 2010. [show more]
Description: Collection consists of three boxes of archival files donated by the Seal Harbor Library pertaining to the history of Seal Harbor village and Acadia National Park. An itemized summary of each boxes' contents is enclosed in each box. Copy of a letter from Han Brett to the Seal Harbor Library telling them they have won a copy of her book "Home For Christmas."
Description: Collection consists of three boxes of archival files donated by the Seal Harbor Library pertaining to the history of Seal Harbor village and Acadia National Park. An itemized summary of each boxes' contents is enclosed in each box. Letter from the Seal Harbor Library to library partrons giving an update of the past winter, summer hours, special events, call for volunteers, request for donations. Two copies of the letter.
Description: Collection consists of three boxes of archival files donated by the Seal Harbor Library pertaining to the history of Seal Harbor village and Acadia National Park. An itemized summary of each boxes' contents is enclosed in each box. Flyer announcing the upcomming talk by Senator George Mitchell at the Seal Harbor Library. Talk will focus on his book The Negotiator with a book sale/signing after the talk.
Description: Program of the Academic Recognition and Awards night at the high school. Special "Graduation Keepsake Edition" of the Bar Harbor Times with 2010 student photographs.
Description: A videorecording, on DVD format, disc, of an excerpt from an interview with David Rockefeller by Kathy Miller, Sept. 9, 2010 This is an excerpt from the full interview, 011.003.001. This excerpt was played at the Annual Meeting, August, 2011 Interview took place at Seal Harbor home, Ringing Point, of David Rockefeller
Description: 1 page photocopy of history of Herrick name and the Herricks of Mount Desert Island, apparently taken from "Old Hancock County Families" by William DcDuff Pierce.
Description: 5 page photocopy of Herrick genealogy, based on material from the book "Gen. Reg. of Name and Family of Herrick" 1830, by Jedediah Herrick.