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. 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
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
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: 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
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: 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
Description: A collection of newspapers, descriptions, and copies of clippings from newspapers in the Deer Isle/Stonington area. No direct relation or mention of Islesford or the Cranberry Isles
Description: Page 170. "The 20th Maine made a grand final charge, and drove the rebels from the valley between the Round Tops, capturing a large number of prisoners. Not a moment too soon, for Chamberlain (Col. Joshua Chamberlain) had lost a third of his command and was entirely out of ammunition."
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: Indicates that the life saving station was fully manned for an "active season" of only ten months per year. Only the captain was on duty in June and July. See page 107.
Description: Turn of the century life on Little Cranberry Island, Maine told through photographs and memories of Irene Morse Bartlett, a life-long island resident
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
Description: Inscribed on the fly leaf - "Addie L Muster, 17 Land Place So. Weymouth, Mass. Dec. 4, 1931. Seth Parker was a humorist from Jonesport, ME
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: Ms Springer was Darlene Dunn of the H.W. Dunn & Co. in Ellsworth. That company has been contracted by the Islesford Historical Society to restore the cemetery on Baker Island in 2009
Description: A 2nd edition with sailing directions and photos of most light houses and light ships along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the US. The book is marked Smith Stanley and was probably found in the house after purchased by Francis Fernald
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: 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: Rachel Field is a local author who used to live on Sutton's Island. She is also the author of "God's Pocket" and "Calico Bush" which have references to the Cranberry Isles
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: 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: 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.
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: A booklet about daily life and activities on Cranberry Island with some illustrations. Property of Hugh L. Dwelley, Islesford, Maine. Acw. #0316 Date 03/06 People Mentioned: Hugh L. Dwelley, Lura Bodwell, Tinker Colby, Charles Rice, Steve Spurling, Lynn Colby, Winslow Bunker, Maggie Denver, Gary Allen, Norma Bunker, Kenneth Lemoine, David Lemoine, Joyce Forsyte, Edith Cunningham, Dick McFalls, Gail Colby, Sonja Colby, David Westphal, Louise Sorenson, Beverly Sanborn, Wendy Sundstrom, Carl Nelson, Barbara Brooks, Charles E. Harwood, Charles N. Davie, Alexander P. MacDonald, J. W. Tingley, A. D. Knight, Daniel E. Fox, James B. Ford, Melvin Hutchins, Charles Gordon Cumming, Howard N. Bacon, Sarah Fraley, Wilfred Bunker, Amaziah Alley, Margie Phippin, Donald Allen, Julius Luck, Lyndon Colby, Robert Alley, Tud Bunker, Lil Samenfeld, Mark Samenfeld, Jack Helliker, Mickey MacFarlan, Gretna Finkelstein, Chuck Liebow, Don Hagberg, Helena Hagberg, Keith Wedge, Carl Fernald, Ada Rice, Marilyn Peterson, Irene Bartlett, Carl Brooks, Frances Bartlett, Cathy Poulin, Karen Bunker, Polly Storey, Betty Sprague, Elmer Hadlock, Polly Bunker, Ruth Stanley, Timmy Savage, Blair Colby, Ginna Murray, Lionel Sundstrom, Norman Sanborn, Ed Gray, Willie Wellman, Herman Savage, William Preble, George V. Spurling, George W. Colby, Abraham C. Fernald, W. M. Richardson [show more]
Description: "Finding Aid for the William Otis Collection: 1692-1941" Located at the William Otis Sawtelle collections and Research center at Acadia NAtional Park headquarters in Bar Harbor, MEAcq #292A - "Finding Aid for the Carroll Farm Collection 1840-1966" Located at the William Otis Sawtelle Collections and research center in BAr Harbor, ME
Description: Page 52 is an article called "Islesford's Creative Economy - Island Artists Must Also Be Entrepreneurs" by Carl Little. Page 70 has a picture of Lil and Chuddy Alley
Description: Page 52 is an article called “Islesford’s Creative Economy – Island Artists Must Also Be Entrepreneurs” by Carl Little. Page 70 has a picture of Lil and Chuddy Alley.
Description: Included are photocopies of correspondences between Hugh Dwelley and a former student of Ray Dwelley (Hugh Dwelley’s Grandfather). Two Copies
Description: Final section deals with L'ilse des Monts Deserts. Includes a story re Capt. Kidd's treasure in Somes Sound as well as the story that Talleyrand might have been born at Southwest Harbor. No mention of the Cranberry Isles by name.
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: There's a typed up note set inside the book that says, "I read this with apologies to Harry Spurling, who, as Grange Lecturor, would have read it from his station over there.
Description: John and Marion Olin Purchased the main building at Woodlawn sometime after 1964. John was a professor at Fordham University and a recognized authority on the Dutch philosopher Erasmus.
Description: John and Marion Olin purchased the main building at Woodlawn sometime after 1964. John was a professor at Fordham University and a recognized authority on the Dutch philosopher Erasmus.