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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - A Short History Of Performing Arts On Mount Desert Island

"A Short History Of Performing Arts On Mount Desert Island Text by Gina Sabatani and Taylor Thomas-Marsh Nestled alongside Maine's central coast, the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Civil War

"Civil War James Parker, Artificer, First Maine Heavy Artillery Regiment, ca. 1863Mount Desert Island Historical Society Soon something much…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - IV. Transitions and troubles: Private enterprise shoulders an island’s needs

"Because, you know, Bar Harbor, Northeast… those are people with money." Interactions between seasonal and year-round residents varied, but there has…"

Mt. Desert Island Hospital

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Jesup Memorial Library

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Architecture & Landscape database - Lost Gardens of Eden

"Bar Harbor was called Eden for 1796 to 1918, and the last fifty years of that period was in many ways a “Golden Age” of architectural and garden…"

Abbe Museum

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Davistown Museum

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Trenton Cemetery & Keeping Society

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Acadia National Park

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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - 1925 National Governors' Association Convention

"… the Navy Airship Shenandoah, which took them from Bar Harbor to Passamaquoddy Bay, to Mt. Katahdin, Moosehead Lake, Rangley Lake, as well as…"

Lincoln, Maine - Ferries

"It travels from Bar Harbor to Nova Scotia, Canada. Bridges now allow us to go over bodies of water that we would never be able to cross before."

Surry by the Bay - Early Twentieth Century

"… the present Grange Hall and then, of course, the Bar Harbor fires in 1947 resulted in deep concern on the part of the Surry citizens whose…"

Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2

"… newspaper, the fire was plainly visible at Bar Harbor almost 50 miles away. (Big Fire 2) Public Library catches fire, Bangor, 1911Bangor…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Bootleggers vs. Police

"Illegal roadhouses, kitchen bars, and clubs joined those already operating in violation of state laws X Maine License Plate, 1921 Courtesy of…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 4 of 4

"… jobs at the Civilian Conservation Corps camp in Bar Harbor during the 1930s helping build the infrastructure for Acadia National Park."

Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 1 of 2

"Bucksport and Bangor Bar Harbor train leaving Bangor, ca. 1900Bangor Public Library This was a short line chartered March 1, 1870 to run 18.8…"

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"… sites of Long Island’s Hamptons, Newport, even Bar Harbor. And far cooler, for even the Rhode Island and Maine shores offered limited respite…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"Other coastal communities like Bar Harbor and Camden show similar signs of great education systems. Blue Hill village was centered mostly around the…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"… spent most of the year in New York and summers in Bar Harbor. He was also an avid supporter of the Ku Klux Klan."

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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