Floor and sail plans for two yawls, the Nirvana and the Valhalla, designed by John G. Alden in 1948 and built by the Henry R. Hinckley company in 1949-1950.
Description: Floor and sail plans for two yawls, the Nirvana and the Valhalla, designed by John G. Alden in 1948 and built by the Henry R. Hinckley company in 1949-1950.
The clipping reads: "MANSET, Me., Feb. 10 (AP) Yacht builders of Manset have resumed an art dormant since pre-war days, the fashioning of king-sized pleasure craft on Mount Desert Island. Of "two sixty-footers now building, one is a future. Bermuda race contender ordered by Harry G. Haskell Jr. of Wilmington, Del. and Northeast Harbor. The other will fly the flag of Cummins Catherwood of Philadelphia. The yachts are. on ways of Henry R. Hinckley & Co. Shipwrights expect Mr. Haskell's craft will be launched in April or May. The tentative date for the other launching is June 17." The Catherwood boat was the Valhalla. The Haskell boat was the Nirvana.
Description: The clipping reads: "MANSET, Me., Feb. 10 (AP) Yacht builders of Manset have resumed an art dormant since pre-war days, the fashioning of king-sized pleasure craft on Mount Desert Island. Of "two sixty-footers now building, one is a future. Bermuda race contender ordered by Harry G. Haskell Jr. of Wilmington, Del. and Northeast Harbor. The other will fly the flag of Cummins Catherwood of Philadelphia. The yachts are. on ways of Henry R. Hinckley & Co. Shipwrights expect Mr. Haskell's craft will be launched in April or May. The tentative date for the other launching is June 17." The Catherwood boat was the Valhalla. The Haskell boat was the Nirvana. [show more]
This painting was found in the basement of the Howe D. Higgins House at 86 Clark Point Road, Southwest Harbor, Maine. The signature at lower left says "H. Higgins 1953."
Description: This painting was found in the basement of the Howe D. Higgins House at 86 Clark Point Road, Southwest Harbor, Maine. The signature at lower left says "H. Higgins 1953."
Left to Right: F. Dwight Perkins (1902-1981) Adella H. (Ames) Perkins (1905-2000) Margaret (Mulholland) Birlem (1910-1989) Charles Wallace Birlem (1914-1975) Both couples were married on December 25, nine years apart. The Perkins in 1926 and the Birlems in 1935. That year, after the Birlem wedding, they shared expenses and went on a "honeymoon" to Washington, D.C. together.
Description: Left to Right: F. Dwight Perkins (1902-1981) Adella H. (Ames) Perkins (1905-2000) Margaret (Mulholland) Birlem (1910-1989) Charles Wallace Birlem (1914-1975) Both couples were married on December 25, nine years apart. The Perkins in 1926 and the Birlems in 1935. That year, after the Birlem wedding, they shared expenses and went on a "honeymoon" to Washington, D.C. together.