Keywords: Mount Desert Reading Room
Item 19158
Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: circa 1910 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Postcard
Item 19424
Cunningham Boarding House, Mount Desert, ca. 1905
Contributed by: Maine Granite Industry Historical Society Date: circa 1905 Location: Mount Desert; Hall Quarry Media: Photographic print
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For one hundred years, Acadia National Park has captured the American imagination and stood as the most recognizable symbol of Maine’s important natural history and identity. This exhibit highlights Maine Memory content relating to Acadia and Mount Desert Island.
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Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators
"Desert Reading Room, Bar Harbor, grew out of the town’s first club, the Oasis (founded in 1874) where men gathered to drink and talk."
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"… Harbor was one of the last villages on Mount Desert Island to develop a business center. However, the trajectory of the rise and decline of its…"