An account of the summer visitors and native population on Gotts Island starting in the 1890's, the book describes the island experience, the families, and changes that took place over the next 100 years.
Description: An account of the summer visitors and native population on Gotts Island starting in the 1890's, the book describes the island experience, the families, and changes that took place over the next 100 years.
The second cat, black, is in the lower right corner. Archivists estimate the date on this photograph based on the negative being among a number of other shots that photographer Northwood Kenway took on Gott Island following his return from WWII in 1945. The negative is from 620 Roll Film 2.25 x 3.25.
Description: The second cat, black, is in the lower right corner. Archivists estimate the date on this photograph based on the negative being among a number of other shots that photographer Northwood Kenway took on Gott Island following his return from WWII in 1945. The negative is from 620 Roll Film 2.25 x 3.25.
This photo appears on page 66 in Peter Blanchard's book "We Were an Island" but archivists at the Southwest Harbor Pubic Library believe that in the book it is printed backward (flipped horizontally). This is based on a) having scanned the original slide emulsion-side up, which is the correct way on a flatbed scanner and b) noting that the buildings in the background on Great Gott Island look reversed in the book photo. Northwood Kenway loaned the original Agfachrome 35mm slide to the Library for scanning. His daughter Nancy took the picture.
Description: This photo appears on page 66 in Peter Blanchard's book "We Were an Island" but archivists at the Southwest Harbor Pubic Library believe that in the book it is printed backward (flipped horizontally). This is based on a) having scanned the original slide emulsion-side up, which is the correct way on a flatbed scanner and b) noting that the buildings in the background on Great Gott Island look reversed in the book photo. Northwood Kenway loaned the original Agfachrome 35mm slide to the Library for scanning. His daughter Nancy took the picture. [show more]
Description: Left to Right: Mrs. Laura Enoch Moore, Mrs. Lovina Philip Moore Louise Moore - later Mrs. Harvey Dow, Esther Moore - later Mrs. Orville Trask
"Solomon T. Gott (1848-1924) was a great-great-grandson of Daniel Gott Jr. (1739-1814) and Hannah Norwood (1744-1836). Collistia or Collista F. Mullin (1853-1940) was born in February 1853. Collistia married Solomon T. Gott (1848-1924), son of James S. Gott and Hulda (Dawes) Gott, on July 20, 1873 in Tremont, Maine. Collistia F. (Mullin) Gott died in 1940 in Tremont, Maine."
Description: "Solomon T. Gott (1848-1924) was a great-great-grandson of Daniel Gott Jr. (1739-1814) and Hannah Norwood (1744-1836). Collistia or Collista F. Mullin (1853-1940) was born in February 1853. Collistia married Solomon T. Gott (1848-1924), son of James S. Gott and Hulda (Dawes) Gott, on July 20, 1873 in Tremont, Maine. Collistia F. (Mullin) Gott died in 1940 in Tremont, Maine."
The lives of authors Ruth Moore and Eleanor Ruth Mayo were their own, but their private lives and the lives they led on Mount Desert Island, were so intertwined that archivists find it difficult to divide documents, stories and photographs between them. It is for this reason that this Item exists in the database. It ties together other Items that relate more to both women than to either as an individual. “Homesick For That Place: Ruth Moore Writes About Maine” by Jennifer Craig Pixley is so well conceived that it may be recommended to those who are interested in Ruth and Eleanor above many other works, but there is much to be learned from everything included here.
Description: The lives of authors Ruth Moore and Eleanor Ruth Mayo were their own, but their private lives and the lives they led on Mount Desert Island, were so intertwined that archivists find it difficult to divide documents, stories and photographs between them. It is for this reason that this Item exists in the database. It ties together other Items that relate more to both women than to either as an individual. “Homesick For That Place: Ruth Moore Writes About Maine” by Jennifer Craig Pixley is so well conceived that it may be recommended to those who are interested in Ruth and Eleanor above many other works, but there is much to be learned from everything included here. [show more]
Elizabeth Safford Peterson died when her house on Gotts Island was destroyed by fire on January 29, 1925. “An inquest held at Gotts Island Me. with the county of Hancock the 30th day of January 1925 before Daniel G. Benson one of the select-man of the town of Tremont, upon the premises of Elizabeth S. Peterson at Gotts Island and made a thorough examination and by evidence found that she came to her death by accidental burning. cause of fire unknown Signed by. Philip Moore [1871-1937 - father of author Ruth Moore] Harvey A. Moore [1900-1971] Charles H. Harding [1883-1972] Frank Babbidge [Frank Austin Babbidge 1880-1957] Clarence E. Harding [1895-1993] Daniel G. Benson, Select-man Tremont [1858-1931] Lewis Chester Morrison – Priest-in-charge [1884-? - Apparently at St. John's Church in Southwest Harbor in 1926] (Spiritual pastor of Deceased) Dated Jan 30 1925 at Gotts Island”
Description: Elizabeth Safford Peterson died when her house on Gotts Island was destroyed by fire on January 29, 1925. “An inquest held at Gotts Island Me. with the county of Hancock the 30th day of January 1925 before Daniel G. Benson one of the select-man of the town of Tremont, upon the premises of Elizabeth S. Peterson at Gotts Island and made a thorough examination and by evidence found that she came to her death by accidental burning. cause of fire unknown Signed by. Philip Moore [1871-1937 - father of author Ruth Moore] Harvey A. Moore [1900-1971] Charles H. Harding [1883-1972] Frank Babbidge [Frank Austin Babbidge 1880-1957] Clarence E. Harding [1895-1993] Daniel G. Benson, Select-man Tremont [1858-1931] Lewis Chester Morrison – Priest-in-charge [1884-? - Apparently at St. John's Church in Southwest Harbor in 1926] (Spiritual pastor of Deceased) Dated Jan 30 1925 at Gotts Island” [show more]