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20543-ring binder labeled “Islesford Historical Society Publications Volume #1”
  • Publication, Other Publication
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]
2211A copy of the diary that Rev. Hall kept at Islesford in 1922 and a number of love letters that he wrote
  • Publication, Book, Journal, Diary
Description:
Rev. Hall and Mrs. Mills were found murdered in a lover's lane shortly after Rev. Hall returned to New Jersey from Islesford. The case was never solved
2100a guide to rescuing pioneer gravestones
  • Publication, Guidebook
2360A History of Little Cranberry Island, Maine By: Hugh Dwelley
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Published in 2000 with additional printings in 2004. Published by the Islesford Historical Society
2174"A Poor Wiseman" by Mary Roberts Rinehart, Curtis Publishing Co., 1920.
  • Publication, Literary, Article
Description:
Ms. Rinehart did some of her writing at the Shermer cottage at Islesford
2406“A Way of Life Worth Keeping: Investing in a foothold on the mainland for the future of Cranberry Isles”
  • Publication, Literary, Article
Description:
A publication explaining the reasoning behind investing in the Manset Town Parking Lot in Southwest Harbor
2185Abbe Museum Bulletin #5 "The Taft Point Shell Mound at Gouldsboro, ME" by W.S. Hadlock 1939
  • Publication, Bulletin
2657Acadia National Park, Maine - General Management Plan - October 1992
  • Publication, Other Publication
2530"All This And Heaven Too" by Rachel Field
  • Publication, Book
2200"American Agriculturalist Almanac for 1896"
  • Publication, Book
Description:
A great variety of statistics, data and information from the time period
2536"Amherst, Maine - Her Settlement and People - 1790 - 1975" by Constance Hanscome
  • Publication, Book
2317An early version of "The Houses of Little Cranberry Island-Islesford" By Marion Spurling
  • Publication, Literary, Article
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
2476An Islesford Jabberwocky
  • Publication, Literary, Poem
Description:
Original Jabberwocky Parody poem by Rosamon L. Lord
2522"-and then again-" by Mark R. Lawler
  • Publication, Book
2353"Annie the Chamber Maid"
  • Publication, Literary, Article
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
1223Antique Water Pump Little Squirt
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • People
  • Transportation, Hand-Drawn Fire Pumper
2738Article, Salvaging Cargo from the Wreck of the Emily F. Northam
  • Publication, Literary, Article
Description:
Downeast Magazine 3/1974, Salvaging cargo from the Wreck of the Emily F. Northam (photo copy)
2447Baker Island the Early Years
  • Publication, Literary, Article
Description:
By Wini Smart
2388Book "1994 Inventory of Historic Light Stations"
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Page 385 includes Baker IslandBear Island on page 86
2178Book "40 Days with the Enemy" by Richard Dudman. The story of Dudman's capture with two other journalists, by guerrillas in Cambodia in 1970.
  • Publication, Book
Description:
See also an oral tape of Dudman's July 1994 talk to the Islesford Historical Society about his return to Vietnam in April 1994 in order to meet with his former captors
2368Book "All About Maine" by John E. Cayford. Published in 1981
  • Publication, Book
2209Book "Along The Union River" By Connee Jellison
  • Publication, Book
Description:
An account of settlement in 1762 around when the Cranberry Isles were getting their first settlers
2278Book "And Then Again.." by Mark R. Lawler
  • Publication, Book
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.
2172Book "Annual Report of the United States Life Saving Service: for the fiscal year ending July 30, 1899"
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Page 280 records the award to Gilbert T. Hadlock of a silver medal for "Daring Seamanship in rescuing 13 men from the wreck of the schooner Effie T. Kemp on June 19, 1894
2308Book "Book of the Cranberry Islands" by Richard Grossinger, 1974
  • Publication, Book
Description:
A "stream of conscience" tale of little value to the Cranberry Isles.