Maine Memory Network

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

"Indians & Rusticators: Wabanakis & Summer Visitors on Mount Desert Island 1840s-1920s Adapted from an exhibit at the Abbe Museum ; narrative text by…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts

"As each generation of summer people comes of age, some traditions continue and some become memories: Peg’s Gift Shop, Blue Heron Restaurant, The Pub…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 2 of 6

"… close friendships with many of Asticou’s summer visitors who were educated, intellectually curious and wealthy “rusticators” with a deep and…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rusticators come to MDI

"… built to accommodate this new influx of summer visitors – often referred to as “rusticators”. In time these rusticators bought land of their own…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Cottagers

"… Memorial Library As Mount Desert Island’s visitor count rose, many wealthy rusticators opted for greater luxury and privacy and built their own…"

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

"… community of middle age, wealthy retired summer visitors. Many of these "guests" stayed for a month or more and brought along their ladies’ maids…"

Surry by the Bay - Late Twentieth Century

"Many of these visitors headed “downeast” towards Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island; some of them discovered Surry during their travels and…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - A Short History of Mount Desert Island

"Eventually summer visitors discovered the island for themselves, and it became famous as a vacation resort and as the home of Acadia National Park."

Lubec, Maine - Team Members

"… history projects; online tools that allow site visitors to create and share their own albums; and much more."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"Rich summer visitors wanted more than just rooms. They wanted their own cottages. And these cottages were not rustic bungalows."

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

"Despite occasional tension between summer visitors and year-round residents, a spirit of cooperation and devotion to community reigned."

Friends of Wood Island Light

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

"… Society When the population grew as summer visitors began to arrive at Islesboro during the mid-1860s, it became more necessary to provide further…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Performance

"… and tours were wildly popular with summer visitors; Frank “Chief Big Thunder” Loring was perhaps the most commercially successful of the lot."

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

"… Island boasted some 20,000 “summer people”—both visitors and cottagers. Its gilded age had arrived, with Bar Harbor’s reputation as one of the most…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment

"Visitors also stopped by the encampment to hire Indian guides for canoe outings or sport-hunting, to place special orders for items such as…"

Bar Harbor Historical Society

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 3 of 3

"The goal of the trail is to “help residents and visitors take an active interest in preserving the unique character of High Peaks communities and…"

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

"The wealthy, middles age visitors who wanted a long term comfortable and homey stay at Asticou, bringing their domestic help, were fast becoming the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Big Thunder

"… who for years has canoed the children of summer visitors, and the parents oft-times themselves when they were children, about the points of…"

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…"

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

"The first wave of visitors were generalized as "preachers and teachers," those who had the free time to spend an entire summer on the island."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Inns

"… wrap-around veranda, and sprawling lawns where visitors strolled and competed in playful sporting events with locals, cottagers, and encamped…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Project Partners

"… history projects; online tools that allow site visitors to create and share their own albums; and much more."