Maine Memory Network

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Theater

"Usually there was a play shown in the summer as entertainment for the summer population. These performances utilized the stage of the Odd Fellows…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Dance

"… have music and dancing especially during the summer months when the summer population was present."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1940-1950 - Page 3 of 3

"1940-1950 Summer weight suit, ca. 1948Maine Historical Society Limited French fashion influence during the war had the effect of encouraging…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Lost Gardens of Eden

"… landscape well before it became a favorite summering place of Indigenous peoples. European settlers made broad use if its natural resources, but…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"… become the first on the island to develop as a summer retreat. In 1857 the Rockland's Captain, Charles Deering, added Bar Harbor to his stops."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Depression, War, and Fire

"1910Jesup Memorial Library The Bar Harbor summer colony reached its peak after the First World War."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators

"… to Bar Harbor to supervise the construction of a summer home for Mrs. Charles Dorr. On that same steamer, a Wabanaki canoe maker was carrying a…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Permanent Settlement

"They arrived separately in Chebacco boats in the summer of 1761 and settled along the Sound. Somes built a log cabin along the shore in what is now…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Moving to Maine: There to Here - Page 1 of 3

"Maine’s summer was like Vietnam’s winter. They came unprepared, with no jackets, ski pants, or mittens, and didn’t know what to do with all the cold…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Welcome to the town of Blue Hill!

"… fishermen, merchants, educators, artists, summer residents, and retirees have come to call Blue Hill their home."

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Camp Winnebago

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Palmyra Historical Society

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Byron Historical Society

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Cottagers

"… greater luxury and privacy and built their own summer “cottages.” By 1890, the cottage-building boom had transformed Bar Harbor."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life

"… island's seagoing tradition had diminished, the summer yachting scene allowed many shipbuilders to continue on a smaller scale."

Surry by the Bay - Late Twentieth Century

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

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

"Often, island homes were purchased by summer residents as people left for the mainland to seek work."

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

"… builders were responsible for erecting the large summer homes for wealthy summer residents, who spent two to three months here."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"The Eliot family had been spending summers in the region since Charles was a young boy. The place was important to him, and he wanted to share the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 4 of 6

"The 1947 island fire had ravaged Bar Harbor and brought an end to much of the already declining wealthy summer colony there while hardly touching the…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond

"… on Cascade Pond Ice harvesting and storage for summer use was prevalent through the land. In Hallowell the Moore family operated and ice business…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - After the War: The First Victory for Separationists

"… on the floor of the General Court the following summer. The Federalist majority argued that because so many Maine citizens did not vote in May, the…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… of the Isles (1901) was built for the Catholic summer help who worked for the wealthy summer families."