Description: Photos of the Blue Duck and copies of the paintings by C. Scott White, Charlie Kinkaid and Harold Warren who styled themselves The Three Islesford Artists (TIPS). Also includes letters form Bob Pyle, and Christina Sawtelle Teal. A letter from Hugh Dwelley to Bob Pyle transmitting material regarding the TIPS collected from the IslesfordJournalsof Dr. Vincent Y. Bowditch
Description: The portrait was painted in 1824 in Hamburg Germany by an artist named Krugg. The origina is owned by Mrs. Constance Aygun of 85 5th Street, Stamford, CT.
Description: From the library of Rev. Charles N. Davis who was the pastor of the Cranberry Isles churches for several years. Inscription: "From the collection taken for books by Edwin Hadlock, Islesford, August, 1897
Description: From the library of Rev. Charles N. Davis who was the pastor of the Cranberry Isles churches for several years. Inscription: "From the collection taken for books by Edwin Hadlock, Islesford, August, 1897
Description: From the library of Rev. Charles N. Davis who was the pastor of the Cranberry Isles churches for several years. Inscription: "From the collection taken for books by Edwin Hadlock, Islesford, August, 1897
Description: Rev. Davie was pastor of the churches on both Great Cranberry and Little Cranberry Islands, His files and library were discovered in the house of the late Rev. Paul Olander at Islesford in 2002. The files were turned over to the Islesford Church and by them to the Islesford Historical Society. These documents record the difficulties that the Church on Great Cranberry was having involving ownershipof pews and the conversion from a Christian meeting house to a Congregational church with open pews. The original documents have been given to the GCI Historical Society. [show more]
Publication, Literary, Musical Composition, Music Book, Songbook
Description: Songs of Maine. Capt. Archie Spurling and other Cranberry Islanders were the sources of many of the sea shantys in this collection. Co-author Mary Smyth, and her sister were long-time summer residents on Islesford. Their father was Rev. Newman Smyth who built the summer cottage later owned by the McAvoy and Land Families, in the 1940's. The Smyth sisters boarded in Mary Morse's old Stanley houe and "mealed" at Woodlawn
Description: Irving Spurling and earlier Islesford farmers used stools like this when milking their cows. This stool may have come from Woodlawn where Ray Dwelley had a cow in the 1920s-30s.
Description: Many Islesford school children have attended the Higgins Classical Institute among them are Marjorie Bunker, Laurence Phippen, Robert Morse, Harold Phippen, Clayton Bunker, Sylvia Gilley, and Elizabeth Dwelley
Description: Autographed "The Property of A.J. Bryant." A.J. was an official of the Town of Cranberry Isles and this book supplied guidance for everything from the running of Town Meetings to the administration of Fish and Game laws.