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: 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: Collection includes: “An Islesford Jabberwocky and other Stories of the Cranberry Islands”, “George Gilley and the Medicine Chest”, “Ensign Ben Bunker of Mount Desert and the Cranberry Isles”, “Footnote to History-Salvage of the USN Blimp k-14”, “The Houses of Islesford, Little Cranberry Island, Maine”, “Ray Dwelley of Islesford, Maine”, “Pioneer Settlers of Islesford”, “Reflections of a Winter’s Night”, “Pioneer Settlers of the Cranberry Islands”, “Rusticators at Large-The Islesford Summer Colony” finished copy and rough copy, as well as “Cranberry Isles Sketches”. [show more]
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]