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| 15379 | Dodge - Abigail (Dodge) Lurvey (1795-1887) |
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| Abigail, born in 1795, had a long life. She died at the age of 91, the mother of seven children. | 
Description: Abigail, born in 1795, had a long life. She died at the age of 91, the mother of seven children. | |||
| 14858 | Peterson - Neil Stanley Peterson (1917-1979) aka Doc |
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| 3462 | A Literary Refuge: Ruth Moore and Eleanor Mayo |
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| The article appears in Chebacco: The Magazine of Mount Desert Island Historical Society. Volume XIII, 2012, p. 39-49 | 
Description: The article appears in Chebacco: The Magazine of Mount Desert Island Historical Society. Volume XIII, 2012, p. 39-49 | ||
| 12695 | Ralph Stanley: An Eye for Wood |
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| Ralph Stanley is an icon of Maine wooden boat building and a scholar of Maine | 
Description: Ralph Stanley is an icon of Maine wooden boat building and a scholar of Maine | |||
| 12693 | Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) |
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| 11761 | Ralph Warren Stanley as an 18th Century Dancing Master |
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| This photograph of Ralph as a dancing master was taken and stylized by Jeff Dobbs as cover art for "Dancing at the Mill" - Life on Mount Desert Island from the mid-1700s through the late 1940s. Produced by Jeff Dobbs and Bing Miller of Dobbs Productions, written by Gunnar Hansen, Documentary Video, August 2011. The photographs were taken in an old barn near Kennebec Place in Bar Harbor. | 
Description: This photograph of Ralph as a dancing master was taken and stylized by Jeff Dobbs as cover art for "Dancing at the Mill" - Life on Mount Desert Island from the mid-1700s through the late 1940s. Produced by Jeff Dobbs and Bing Miller of Dobbs Productions, written by Gunnar Hansen, Documentary Video, August 2011. The photographs were taken in an old barn near Kennebec Place in Bar Harbor. | ||
| 14949 | George Soules and Charlotte Morrill |
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| The woman in the photograph at lower right is Meredith Hutchins. | 
Description: The woman in the photograph at lower right is Meredith Hutchins. | |
| 3460 | Ruth Moore Remembered |
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| Before she became a well-known writer, Maine author Ruth Moore was a special investigator for the NAACP, worked for the publicity department of the Y.M.C.A., was an editor for the Readers Digest and managed a walnut ranch and vineyard in Martinez, California. | 
Description: Before she became a well-known writer, Maine author Ruth Moore was a special investigator for the NAACP, worked for the publicity department of the Y.M.C.A., was an editor for the Readers Digest and managed a walnut ranch and vineyard in Martinez, California. | ||
| 15622 | Newman's legacy, and his boats, will sail on |
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| Article about legendary boatbuilder Jarvis Newman. | 
Description: Article about legendary boatbuilder Jarvis Newman. | ||
| 15441 | Fagans - Lester Fagans (1901-1964) |
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| The following comes from an article in Soundings by Steve Knauth. Lester Fagans was a top commercial illustrator and painter through three decades, honored by the American Merchant Marine Institute as “one of the country’s leading contemporary marine artists.” Fagans was known early on for his detailed boat portraits. A 1939 work, Breezy Day, shows Henry Gibson’s powerboat Vesta, built by Hubert Johnson’s yard in Bay Head, New Jersey. After serving in the South Pacific during World War II, Fagans began a career in commercial art, working for a variety of companies. He did road maps for Esso (Standard Oil); illustrated articles for Popular Science (one on “How to Drive” required Fagans to do extensive study of accident photographs); and a series of cutaway drawings of a centrifuge (for an article on supersonic aviation). His finely done posters for the shipping companies Moore-McCormack, Grace Lines and American Export Lines helped publicize their new fleets of ocean liners. But he’s perhaps best known for his work in the recreational boating field. The boating business was booming in the 1950s and ’60s, with new boats, new designs and new technology to excite the buying public. Fagans helped show it all off through his magazine article illustrations and covers. He also did drawings for the so-called “Bible of Boating,” Chapman Piloting: Seamanship and Small Boat Handing. Self-effacing, Fagans worked with what he called “quick sketches” and “no ideas.” He described himself as a guy who has to work “pretty hard” and “once in a while receives a check.” He was active as an artist in the Chatham, Massachusetts, community that was his home. Countless entries in the Chatham Press announced lessons and demonstrations for civic groups and schoolchildren. Fagans died in 1964. To those with whom he worked, he was known for his draftsmanship and attention to detail. As an illustrator, one publication noted, Lester Fagans was a “popular choice.” This article originally appeared in the April 2017 issue. | 
Description: The following comes from an article in Soundings by Steve Knauth. Lester Fagans was a top commercial illustrator and painter through three decades, honored by the American Merchant Marine Institute as “one of the country’s leading contemporary marine artists.” Fagans was known early on for his detailed boat portraits. A 1939 work, Breezy Day, shows Henry Gibson’s powerboat Vesta, built by Hubert Johnson’s yard in Bay Head, New Jersey. After serving in the South Pacific during World War II, Fagans began a career in commercial art, working for a variety of companies. He did road maps for Esso (Standard Oil); illustrated articles for Popular Science (one on “How to Drive” required Fagans to do extensive study of accident photographs); and a series of cutaway drawings of a centrifuge (for an article on supersonic aviation). His finely done posters for the shipping companies Moore-McCormack, Grace Lines and American Export Lines helped publicize their new fleets of ocean liners. But he’s perhaps best known for his work in the recreational boating field. The boating business was booming in the 1950s and ’60s, with new boats, new designs and new technology to excite the buying public. Fagans helped show it all off through his magazine article illustrations and covers. He also did drawings for the so-called “Bible of Boating,” Chapman Piloting: Seamanship and Small Boat Handing. Self-effacing, Fagans worked with what he called “quick sketches” and “no ideas.” He described himself as a guy who has to work “pretty hard” and “once in a while receives a check.” He was active as an artist in the Chatham, Massachusetts, community that was his home. Countless entries in the Chatham Press announced lessons and demonstrations for civic groups and schoolchildren. Fagans died in 1964. To those with whom he worked, he was known for his draftsmanship and attention to detail. As an illustrator, one publication noted, Lester Fagans was a “popular choice.” This article originally appeared in the April 2017 issue. [show more] | |||
| 15549 | Waldron Bates - The Pathmaker |
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| 15572 | Edith Bowdoin and Her Horse Troughs |
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| 15594 | Tragedy at Great Head |
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| 15595 | Cushing - Sarah Eliza Sigourney Cushing (1832 - 1915) |
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| 15599 | Drexel - Katharine Drexel (1858 - 1955) |
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| 6835 | Marycarol Lenahan, Mrs. Donald P. Lenahan at Jesuit Spring - West on Fernald Point, Southwest Harbor |
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| 15551 | George Bucknam Dorr - the Father of Acadia National Park |
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| 15556 | Stephen Mather - Founder and First Director of the National Park Service |
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| 15557 | Robert McGaunn - A Solemn Memorial on a Mountain Top |
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| 15559 | J. J. OBrien and His Jesuit Settlement Memorial |
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| 15564 | Great Head, Sand Beach and J. P. Morgan |
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| 15566 | Stephen Mather - Further Memorial Locations |
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| 15585 | Pathmaker -- The Tragic Death of Waldron Bates |
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| 15590 | Rudolph Brunnow and the Myths about Him |
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| 15597 | Atwater Kent - Inventor, Industrialist and Philanthropist |
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