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
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: 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.
Description: The minister and his wife were guests at Woodlawn in July and August 1922. Shortly after they returned home Rev. Hall and a member of his choir were murdered.
Description: Marked on the inside cover as property of Islesford School Library. Loan List includes - Theodore L. Spurling, Marion Spurling, Malcolm Fernald, Pauline Stanley (1936), Francis Stanley, and Warren Fernald (1940)
Description: A collection of humorous short stories published in 1962. Rosemary Lawler was a teacher in the Islesford school from about 1942 to 1945. She boarded with Betty and Francis Fernald and they became good friends. Rosemary's father ran the ice business out of Southwest Harbor. Her uncle, Mark Lawler was an engineer working on the Mississippi and living in New Orleans. This copy of his book was a gift to Francis and Elizabeth Fernald.
Description: Both books tell the story of the Halls-Mills murder case. Rev. Hall and his family were guests at Woodlawn in 1922. Shortly after their return home, Rev. Hall and a member of his choir were found murdered. The mystery has never been solved.
Description: The book appears to have been given to the Islesford School by the Sea Coast Mission in 1939. It is of interest because it contains numerous autographs of Islesford students from 1939-1949. The autographs often include comments on the weather such as "Agood day", "A slippery day", etc.
Description: This book is based on interviews by Marie Locke with her grandmother, Irene Bartlett, and with glass plate photographs by Irene's father Fred Morse of Islesford. The Islesford Historical Society served as a fiscal agent for the project. Irene Bartlett died on June 27, 1998 and a copy of her obituary has been inserted in the book