Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Indians & Rusticators: Wabanakis & Summer Visitors on Mount Desert Island 1840s-1920s

"-Albert L. Higgins, Bar Harbor Times, 20 June 1934 Rusticators were visitors who flocked to the island from cities, seeking relief from the noise…"

Acadia National Park

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Cottagers

"… island in the number and sheer opulence of these seasonal homes, all given grandly imaginative names such as “Bogue Chitto,” “Bournemouth,”…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Welcome

"… X Whether a resident of our community, a seasonal visitor, an educator, or a curious "virtual traveler," we invite you to discover the rich…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rusticators on the Rise

"… a wide range of people comprised the island’s seasonal population. Anthropologists conducted research at the Indian encampment while stunningly…"

Surry by the Bay - Late Twentieth Century

"… people” in Surry and in Blue Hill provided seasonal employment to a number of Surry people as well."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Gravenstein apple, Bangor, 1866

"… part of it larger than my finger but during the season it thickened up a little from the ground up 2 feet but when the fruit grew it would have…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - I. Canoes and Clamshells: The Pre-European Settlement Years

"… many Native Americans who used the island as a seasonal, and perhaps permanent, home. Little information exists on the exact nature of the island’s…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 3 of 6

"… buildings for themselves and others in the off season. Most of their construction was then used as lodging for summer guests who came to the island…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Inns

"It was green.” Off-season, Ted worked in the woods and turned natural materials into items to sell: “My dad used to do quillwork when I was a boy –…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Arriving in Bar Harbor

"… the Indians who have been at Bar Harbor for the season. There were twelve families on board with all their baggage, canoes."

Washburn-Norlands Living History Center

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Brick Store Museum

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts

"… summer "cottages" were built to provide generous seasonal experiences for their families and friends from ”away.” The Company built the Islesboro…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"During peak season delivery trucks hurried about to the summer cottages and large yachts, providing quick service to chefs who had placed their order…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 1 of 4

"A long-time seasonal resident of Lubec, Frank Van Riper, made a number of photographs of people and their work at McCurdy’s the last year of…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 2 of 5

"From the start of the strawberry season, through blueberries, raspberries and blackberries, the women were busily filling every container."

Music in Maine - MAKE

"Some music and dance traditions happen seasonally for harvesting, social, and ceremonial events. Other songs honor and welcome visitors or prepare…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"From these first seasonal visitors who recorded the visual beauty of Mount Desert Island in their artwork, the tourist industry on Mount Desert…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 3 of 4

"… were eager to leave behind them the heat and the seasonal epidemics of the crowded cities. Blue Hill Inn construction, Blue Hill, 1892Blue…"

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

"… adapted to the economic and social presence of seasonal residents. It took a certain sort of person to choose Swan’s Island as a vacation site…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Big Thunder

"… Bar Harbor and spent many years traveling there seasonally and camping on the island. While there, his mind was on finding folks to rent his…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Bryants and Rockefellers: Two Seal Harbor Families

"Also, many of the wealthier visitors fell in love with what they found on the island, and soon enough million-dollar cottages started appearing…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

"Running water was a seasonal affair through above-ground pipes; in the winter one needed to fetch fresh water by taking buckets down to the brook…"