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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date Place Address Description
13796A Talk About the Southwest Harbor Public Library (1905-2005)
  • Document, Oral History
  • Organizations, Civic, Public Library
This is a transcription of a talk given by Meredith Hutchins as a Southwest Harbor Public Library evening program in 2005. Meredith describes the history of the library from 1884 through 2005 and recalls the people and events that shaped the library.
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This is a transcription of a talk given by Meredith Hutchins as a Southwest Harbor Public Library evening program in 2005. Meredith describes the history of the library from 1884 through 2005 and recalls the people and events that shaped the library.
16609Beatrice M. Seavey Black interviewed by David Spurling
  • Document, Oral History
  • People
  • 1993-04-20
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 338 Main Street
In this interview Beatrice M. Seavey Black talks about her personal history working at a fish canning factory and living before automobiles were in use.
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In this interview Beatrice M. Seavey Black talks about her personal history working at a fish canning factory and living before automobiles were in use.
16608Carl Bennett interviewed by David Spurling
  • Document, Oral History
  • People
  • 1992-02-03
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 338 Main Street
In this interview, Carl Bennet describes his early family life, painting buildings in Southwest Harbor and on Cranberry Island, and rum running.
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In this interview, Carl Bennet describes his early family life, painting buildings in Southwest Harbor and on Cranberry Island, and rum running.
16624Interview of Arthur and Fredrica Black
  • Document, Oral History
  • People
  • 1975-01-13
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 338 Main Street
Black #1: Arthur and Fredrica Black speaking about a family house which was moved several times, catching flounders from shore, salting fish to transport to Gloucestor and beyond. Black #2: Arthur and Fredrica Black speaking about old houses, discussing old photographs they are looking at, critique some park acquisition, tell a story about the hot pursuit of a robber, and discuss treatment of robbers and honesty of Southwest Harbor people.
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Black #1: Arthur and Fredrica Black speaking about a family house which was moved several times, catching flounders from shore, salting fish to transport to Gloucestor and beyond. Black #2: Arthur and Fredrica Black speaking about old houses, discussing old photographs they are looking at, critique some park acquisition, tell a story about the hot pursuit of a robber, and discuss treatment of robbers and honesty of Southwest Harbor people.
16628Interview of Elene Dolliver
  • Document, Oral History
  • People
  • 1992-06-22
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 338 Main Street
The beginning of the tape (up until minute 2:30) includes Esther Rodick interviewing Ralph Stanley about lost graveyard. The rest centers on Elene Dolliver talking about growing up in Southwest Harbor, steamboat journeys, the life of her mother and grandfather on Mt Desert Rock (he was an assistant lighthouse keeper), her husband and children, seeing Wabanaki making and selling baskets, and war veterans returning home.
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The beginning of the tape (up until minute 2:30) includes Esther Rodick interviewing Ralph Stanley about lost graveyard. The rest centers on Elene Dolliver talking about growing up in Southwest Harbor, steamboat journeys, the life of her mother and grandfather on Mt Desert Rock (he was an assistant lighthouse keeper), her husband and children, seeing Wabanaki making and selling baskets, and war veterans returning home.
3026Interview with Ruth Carroll (Kittredge) Dolliver about the Kittredge and Clark Properties in Tremont
  • Document, Oral History
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • 1998-01-30
  • Tremont
  • 122 Tremont Road
16610Nancy (Dunbar) Bulger interviewed by David Spurling
  • Document, Oral History
  • People
  • 1994-10-18
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 338 Main Street
In the interview Nancy (Dunbar) Bulger talks about her uncle, Wendel Gilley, stories of waitressing at a local restaurant, the fire at the fish wharf, and a series of pranks against her Crosley automobile.
Description:
In the interview Nancy (Dunbar) Bulger talks about her uncle, Wendel Gilley, stories of waitressing at a local restaurant, the fire at the fish wharf, and a series of pranks against her Crosley automobile.