Description: Scrapbook in commemoration of the 80th year of the Woman's Club of Northeast Harbor. Contains manuscripts, typescripts, news clippings, photographs, programs.
Description: Scrapbook of the Woman's Club of Northeast Harbor. Contains manuscripts, typescripts, news clippings, photographs, programs. November 1983 through December 1987.
Description: Series of articles about the Iranian hostages, including Moorhead Kennedy, and events surrounding their release in January 1981. Louisa Kennedy became spokeswoman for hostage families in attempts to gain release.
Description: Five folders of Rachel Field research, primarily from the late Phoebe White Wentworth of Southwest Harbor who gave it to Carl Little years ago while he was working on the foreword to a new 1999 edition of Field's "God’s Pocket" published by the Northeast Harbor Library . These research materials relate to a 1985 exhibit and quilt raffle held at the Southwest Harbor Public Library.
Description: Photos of Carl Nelson Day held in August of 1985. Carl was in his 90s when these pictures were taken and moved off island shortly after Carl Nelson Day. Package includes notes from Jan and names of people in photos by Ruth Westphal. Scanned photos available.
Description: Document, 2 pages, photocopy of newspaper article "Au Revoir, not goodbye" by Gordon Emerson, written around March 1980, about retirement of Robert Bloom. Annotated with note by Sara Lambert "Sally" Bloom saying the job of assembling and publishing Bob Bloom's music, mentioned in the article, took longer than expected.
Description: Amanda E. Crafts was born to Lewis Griffin Crafts and Shirley A. Worcester of Southwest Harbor. This photo was taken at the Grand March at the Boothbay Regional Highschool. She is seen here with Robert Arthur Dyer, who was at one time the principal of the Pemetic Highschool.
Description: In this interview, Carol Hall talks to Marguerite Hamblen Hancock about some family history and how, among others, her grandfather "went to sea." She talks about the houses she grew up in, attending grammar school in Southwest Harbor, and playing basketball in school. The winter games between the three high schools on the island were a source of entertainment for everyone. During summer, she would go camping at Long Pond in cabins. She mentions how there are fewer grocery stores in Southwest Harbor now then there used to be. After high school, she got married to her husband Teddie who was stationed at the Navy Radio Station in Seawall. After getting married, the two returned back to Teddie's home in Illinois for a year. Afterwards, they permanently settled in Southwest Harbor. She remembers the fires of 1922 and the flu epidemic of 1918, but also talks about the 4th of July celebrations in McKinley. She also talks about Wabanaki people(Indians) trading their beautiful baskets in town. [show more]
Description: Ralph Stanley interviews Athol Higgins, who talks about her husband, Howe Higgins, and his jobs. Before World War One, he worked in the Post Office in Bar Harbor and saw the switch from horses to automobiles. After World War One, he worked in the customs office in Southwest Harbor for twelve years. His duties as customs officer got in the way of some friendships. He talks of sardine boats that went herring fishing in bad weather and fog. The sardine factory was a busy place during the Spring and Summer as it was the main source of employment. Howe helped start the fire department after the fire of 1922; his office was in the Odd Fellows Hall and he carried out a lot of files to prevent them from burning. Athol talks about walking out to "the small island in the middle of the harbor" for picnics, and having to be careful of the tide. [show more]
Description: Ralph Warren Stanley and Richard Stanley load rock ballast into the Endeavor, a Friendship sloop Ralph built between 1979-1980. The beach rocks that were originally loaded into the open cockpit have since been replaced with lead.
Description: In this interview Gladys Butler describes her family history, connections to other families in Southwest Harbor, her father's involvement in helping the Dole company set up canning in Hawaii where Gladys and all her siblings were born, the journey to Mount Desert Island from Hawaii, and of meeting her husband, Farnham Butler, and starting a family.