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2360A History of Little Cranberry Island, Maine By: Hugh Dwelley
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Published in 2000 with additional printings in 2004. Published by the Islesford Historical Society
2530"All This And Heaven Too" by Rachel Field
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2200"American Agriculturalist Almanac for 1896"
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A great variety of statistics, data and information from the time period
2536"Amherst, Maine - Her Settlement and People - 1790 - 1975" by Constance Hanscome
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2522"-and then again-" by Mark R. Lawler
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2388Book "1994 Inventory of Historic Light Stations"
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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.
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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
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2209Book "Along The Union River" By Connee Jellison
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An account of settlement in 1762 around when the Cranberry Isles were getting their first settlers
2278Book "And Then Again.." by Mark R. Lawler
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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"
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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
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A "stream of conscience" tale of little value to the Cranberry Isles.
2201Book "Carry on Mr.Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham. Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1955
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A novelized version of the life and time of Nathaniel Bowditch, the navigator.
2057Book “Centennial: A Century of Island Newspapers” by James M. Aldrich
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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
2169Book "Chancellorsville and Gettysburg" by Major General Abner Doubleday. Charles Scribner's Sons, NY 1882.
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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."
2432Book “Civil War Maine Hall of Fame, Political, Judicial, and Military Leaders 1861-1865: an encyclopedic historical survey and directory of 446 individuals” By Kenneth M. Thompson
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2355Book "Eldridge's Coast Pilot No.1"
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Incription on the first page: George E. Gilley Islesford, Maine
2014Book "Eminent Mainers, Suucint Biographies of thousands of amazing Mainers, Mostly Dead, and a few from away who have done something useful within the state of Maine" by Arthur Douglas Stover
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2273Book "Fatal Tryst" by Gerald Tomlinson
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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.
2055Book “Island Sketchbook, Artists’ Impressions of the Acadian Islands, Compiled for the Islesford Historical Society”
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Includes sketches from TIPs, Rick Alley, Corey Alley, Mark Howard, Dan Fernald, and Sarah Corson
2009Book "Joh Gilley, Maine Farmer and Fisherman" by Charles W. Eliot
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2448Book Leaving Home
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ficitional version of life and leaving Islesford
2128Book "Life and Correspondence of Henry Ingersoll Bowditch" by his son Vincent Y. Bowditch. Published by the Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1902. Volume I of II
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Inscription - Presented to the Islesford Library by the children of henry I. Bowditch
2184Book "Life Saving Station Annual Report, 1912"
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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.
2051Book “Maine Almanac: Maine’s most comprehensive general reference handbook, concise, accurate, up-to-date information about all aspects of the state of Maine 1978”
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