Description: A letter written by Annie (Young)to Minnie Spurling when Annie was a chamber maid at one of the big Seal Harbor Summer Hotels in the summer of 1903. Salary $5.00 to $5.50 per week
Description: Gifted and inscribed by Marion to "Phil" Phyllis Colson, Phyllis cared for Marion in her later years. A revised version of this booklet was published by the Islesford Historical Society in March 1993, see entry #0450
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: Includes a poem REMEMBERED BLUE about Sutton Island. Also, on Pages 38 & 39, poems about Sammy Sanford's life and after his death on GCI. The Shopping Expedition. on Pages 61-66 relates a trip from Sutton to the mainland and is excellent.