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7338Roc Caivano
  • Document, Recording, Audio Recording
  • People
Elly Andrews interviews 4 of Roc Caivano's close friends from his Yale years: Bob Knight, Peter Woerner, Tom Carey, and Ron Filson. Roc received his BA from Dartmouth College and a Master of Architecture degree from Yale University. He and and wife Helen arrived on MDI in 1974 where he was hired to start a program in Environmental Design at the College of the Atlantic. While at COA, Roc, Barbara Sassaman and Harris Hyman established an office in Southwest Harbor where they were involved in the renovation of the Turrets, a granite shorefront “cottage” designed by Bruce Price and originally built in 1895. They also created the Wendell Gilley Museum, the Somesville bridge and a number of single family residences. For over 45 years Roc Caivano Architects prepared the master plan for Acadia National Park, the renovation and conversion of the Schoodic Navel Station in to the Schoodic National Park Education Center, Acadia’s Fee Station and the Island Explorer Bus Shelter System, the Mary Dow and MDI Hospital Oncology Centers and other medical and educational facilities.
  • 07.10.2021
Description:
Elly Andrews interviews 4 of Roc Caivano's close friends from his Yale years: Bob Knight, Peter Woerner, Tom Carey, and Ron Filson. Roc received his BA from Dartmouth College and a Master of Architecture degree from Yale University. He and and wife Helen arrived on MDI in 1974 where he was hired to start a program in Environmental Design at the College of the Atlantic. While at COA, Roc, Barbara Sassaman and Harris Hyman established an office in Southwest Harbor where they were involved in the renovation of the Turrets, a granite shorefront “cottage” designed by Bruce Price and originally built in 1895. They also created the Wendell Gilley Museum, the Somesville bridge and a number of single family residences. For over 45 years Roc Caivano Architects prepared the master plan for Acadia National Park, the renovation and conversion of the Schoodic Navel Station in to the Schoodic National Park Education Center, Acadia’s Fee Station and the Island Explorer Bus Shelter System, the Mary Dow and MDI Hospital Oncology Centers and other medical and educational facilities. [show more]
3978Marion Kimball
  • Document, Recording, Audio Recording
  • People
Kimball House
  • Marion Kimball
  • 2 cassettes
Description:
Kimball House
3965Phyllis Reynolds
  • Document, Recording, Audio Recording
  • People
Pastime Theatre 1913-1966 Bill Doliver, husband, built the theatre. Update 7/7/21: According to Mr. Sam McGee, the speaker / author is not Phyllis Reynolds, but rather Emily Phillips (formerly Dolliver) Reynolds. Emily was a granddaughter of Emily Manchester and Augustus Chase Savage, the founders of the Asticou Inn. One of her husbands, William "Bill" Dolliver, was the Pastime Theater proprietor She also wrote a local history publication about growing up in Northeast Harbor entitled "Down Memory Lane".
  • Phyllis Reynolds
  • April 1978
  • 1 cassette
Description:
Pastime Theatre 1913-1966 Bill Doliver, husband, built the theatre. Update 7/7/21: According to Mr. Sam McGee, the speaker / author is not Phyllis Reynolds, but rather Emily Phillips (formerly Dolliver) Reynolds. Emily was a granddaughter of Emily Manchester and Augustus Chase Savage, the founders of the Asticou Inn. One of her husbands, William "Bill" Dolliver, was the Pastime Theater proprietor She also wrote a local history publication about growing up in Northeast Harbor entitled "Down Memory Lane". [show more]
3961Woodbury A. Stanley
  • Document, Recording, Audio Recording
  • Events, Fire
  • People
Fire of 1947 Interviewer: Mildred Gilley
  • Woodbury A. Stanley
  • 1975
  • 1 cassette, 1 disc, 4 digital files
Description:
Fire of 1947 Interviewer: Mildred Gilley
3960Endicott Peabody
  • Document, Recording, Audio Recording
  • People
Recollections of Northeast Harbor Interviewee: Endicott Peabody Interviewer: Julia Fairchild
  • Endicott Peabody
  • 2 cassettes, 1 disc, 2 digital files
Description:
Recollections of Northeast Harbor Interviewee: Endicott Peabody Interviewer: Julia Fairchild
6985Marguerite Yourcenar, "Gentle Aristocrat"
  • Document, Recording, Audio Recording
  • Other, Literature
  • People
Interview with Marguerite Yourcenar about her life and literary work. Production of Maine Public Broadcast Network, 1983.
  • 1983
Description:
Interview with Marguerite Yourcenar about her life and literary work. Production of Maine Public Broadcast Network, 1983.
3956Elizabeth Gardiner
  • Document, Recording, Audio Recording
  • People
Childhood summers and Northeast Harbor in the early 1900s.
  • Elizabeth Gardiner
  • 1 cassette, 1 disc, 2 digital files
Description:
Childhood summers and Northeast Harbor in the early 1900s.
3985Elsie Fay Hawtin and Patricia Grant Scull
  • Document, Recording, Audio Recording
  • People
Summer Youth in Northeast Harbor
  • Elsie Fay Hawtin, Patricia Grant Scull
  • 2 cassettes, 1 disc, 2 digital files
Description:
Summer Youth in Northeast Harbor
3945Anne Smallidge
  • Document, Recording, Audio Recording
  • People
Anne Walls Smallidge of Seal Harbor born in 1929. Interviewed by Anne Haynes
  • Anne Smallidge
  • 1/23/2004
  • 1 cassette, 1 digital file
Description:
Anne Walls Smallidge of Seal Harbor born in 1929. Interviewed by Anne Haynes
6987Lydia Vandenberg and Earl Shettleworth
  • Document, Recording, Audio Recording
  • People
  • Places, Town
Talk about Seal Harbor. 2nd file is incomplete.
  • 1996
Description:
Talk about Seal Harbor. 2nd file is incomplete.
3946Gertrude Fay
  • Document, Recording, Audio Recording
  • Organizations, Civic, Public Library
  • People
Retirement as Chairman of Board of the Northeast Harbor Library and Remarks at the 23rd Annual Meeting, August 1973. Mentions library artifacts. Coat of Arms by Wendell Gilley, William Draper Lewis plaque, Hancock County walling map all from Roger Griswald. Flying Cloud by Luther Phillips, doll house from Mrs. Sawyer, chair from Green (now Cadillac) Mountain house porch.
  • Gertrude Fay
  • 8/14/1973
  • 1 cassette, 1 disc, 1 digital file
Description:
Retirement as Chairman of Board of the Northeast Harbor Library and Remarks at the 23rd Annual Meeting, August 1973. Mentions library artifacts. Coat of Arms by Wendell Gilley, William Draper Lewis plaque, Hancock County walling map all from Roger Griswald. Flying Cloud by Luther Phillips, doll house from Mrs. Sawyer, chair from Green (now Cadillac) Mountain house porch.
3941Gertrude Fay
  • Document, Recording, Audio Recording
  • Organizations, Civic, Public Library
  • People
Mrs. Fay reading her dedication of the Northeast Harbor Library in 1950.
  • Gertrude Fay
  • 8/20/1950
  • 1 cassette, 1 disc. 1 digital file
Description:
Mrs. Fay reading her dedication of the Northeast Harbor Library in 1950.
3942Anna Kneedler Lewis
  • Document, Recording, Audio Recording
  • People
  • Places, Town
Anna Lewis Kneedler reading William Draper Lewis' recollections of Northeast Harbor and the Northeast Harbor Library.
  • William Draper Lewis
  • 1 cassette, 1 disc, 1 digital file
Description:
Anna Lewis Kneedler reading William Draper Lewis' recollections of Northeast Harbor and the Northeast Harbor Library.
6990A Visit Among Islanders - Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Recording, Audio Recording
  • Events, Performance
  • Other, Literature
Program of recitations presented under the Library's Public Performance Program, organized by Judith Blank. Jeff McKeen, host Ted Spurling Sr. (Islesford) Elizabeth Carlson (Swan's Island) Bob Quinn (Eagle Island) Includes old favorites by: Robert W. Service, Ruth Moore, Holman Day (by Jeff McKeen) Rachel Field, poems from childhood (by Ted Spurling) Original poems from Swan's Island (by Betty Carlson) Several other original poems of Eagle Island (written in the 1930's by Bonney Quinn, read from the original manuscript by his nephew, Bob Quinn). Recorded in the Mellon Room, Northeast Harbor Library.
  • 11.20.1999
Description:
Program of recitations presented under the Library's Public Performance Program, organized by Judith Blank. Jeff McKeen, host Ted Spurling Sr. (Islesford) Elizabeth Carlson (Swan's Island) Bob Quinn (Eagle Island) Includes old favorites by: Robert W. Service, Ruth Moore, Holman Day (by Jeff McKeen) Rachel Field, poems from childhood (by Ted Spurling) Original poems from Swan's Island (by Betty Carlson) Several other original poems of Eagle Island (written in the 1930's by Bonney Quinn, read from the original manuscript by his nephew, Bob Quinn). Recorded in the Mellon Room, Northeast Harbor Library. [show more]
3975Gertrude Schirmer Fay
  • Document, Recording, Audio Recording
  • People
W. A. Brown, F. G. Peabody, The Sunday Club, Winter, Northeast Harbor, Library, Union Church, Charles Eliot Interviewer: William (Mac) Bigelow Transcribed by Jeremy Lunt.
  • Gertrude Schirmer Fay
  • 1984
  • 1 cassette, 1 disc, 1 digital file
Description:
W. A. Brown, F. G. Peabody, The Sunday Club, Winter, Northeast Harbor, Library, Union Church, Charles Eliot Interviewer: William (Mac) Bigelow Transcribed by Jeremy Lunt.
698910th Annual Islesford Literary Evening
  • Document, Recording, Audio Recording
  • Events
Recording of presentations by Genia Gould Jack Merrill III Paul Breslin Kathleen Lake Harry Spurling Ashley Bryan Produced by Sarah (Lord) Corson. Audio not very good on original tape.
  • 08.25.1988
Description:
Recording of presentations by Genia Gould Jack Merrill III Paul Breslin Kathleen Lake Harry Spurling Ashley Bryan Produced by Sarah (Lord) Corson. Audio not very good on original tape.
6988Second Centennial Service, The Union Church of Northeast Harbor
  • Document, Recording, Audio Recording
  • Events, Civic
  • Organizations, Religious
The Union Church was dedicated on July 17, 1889. The Rev. William McPherson Bigelow, pastror. The Rev. Carl Scovil, guest preacher. Nathalie Raimondi, organist. Louisa Pyle, composer and special organist. The recording begins with celebrations and concerns about a quarter of the way into the service. Special music: The hymn "Union", composed by Louisa C. Pyle in honor of the Centennial of the Union Church of Northeast Harbor. Sermon: "God is in this place", given by the Reverend Carl Scovil, pastor of King's Chapel in Boston, Mass. Guest preacher for the first Centennial Service of the Union Church was the Rev. Dr. Peter Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Ethics at Harvard University.
  • 09.10.1989
Description:
The Union Church was dedicated on July 17, 1889. The Rev. William McPherson Bigelow, pastror. The Rev. Carl Scovil, guest preacher. Nathalie Raimondi, organist. Louisa Pyle, composer and special organist. The recording begins with celebrations and concerns about a quarter of the way into the service. Special music: The hymn "Union", composed by Louisa C. Pyle in honor of the Centennial of the Union Church of Northeast Harbor. Sermon: "God is in this place", given by the Reverend Carl Scovil, pastor of King's Chapel in Boston, Mass. Guest preacher for the first Centennial Service of the Union Church was the Rev. Dr. Peter Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Ethics at Harvard University. [show more]
6986Mike Kennedy
  • Document, Recording, Audio Recording
  • Events
  • People
Mike Kennedy speaks to Judith Blank, October 29, 2001.
  • 2001
Description:
Mike Kennedy speaks to Judith Blank, October 29, 2001.
5558Cars and Drivers
  • Document, Recording, Audio Recording
  • People
  • Transportation, Automobile
CD of Northeast Harbor cars and drivers compiled by Robert Pyle.
  • 2008
Description:
CD of Northeast Harbor cars and drivers compiled by Robert Pyle.
3984Joan Coulomb, Wilma C. Eaton, Helena S. Eaton, Lucy H. Smith
  • Document, Recording, Audio Recording
  • People
Growing up in 1930's in Northeast Harbor Interviewees: Joan Coulomb, Wilma C. Eaton, Helena S. Eaton, and Lucy H. Smith Interviewer: Judith Blank
  • Joan Coulomb, Wilma C. Eaton, Helena S. Eaton, Lucy H. Smith
  • 1 cassette, 1 disc, 2 digital files
Description:
Growing up in 1930's in Northeast Harbor Interviewees: Joan Coulomb, Wilma C. Eaton, Helena S. Eaton, and Lucy H. Smith Interviewer: Judith Blank
3983Lawrence Wass
  • Document, Recording, Audio Recording
  • People
  • Lawrence Wass
  • 1 cassette
3982Eleanor Belmont, Julia Fairchild
  • Document, Recording, Audio Recording
  • People
  • Eleanor Belmont, Julia Fairchild
  • 1 cassette
3981E. Cushman McGiffert
  • Document, Recording, Audio Recording
  • People
Northeast Harbor history Interviewer: Edwin A. Garrett III; Transcribed by Jeremy Lunt in 2008.
  • E. Cushman McGiffert
  • 1973
  • 1 cassette, 1 disc, 1 digital file
Description:
Northeast Harbor history Interviewer: Edwin A. Garrett III; Transcribed by Jeremy Lunt in 2008.
3980Philomena Manchester Davis
  • Document, Recording, Audio Recording
  • People
Aunt Phi's story of moving the Manchester House. "A day out riding with Aunt Phi and Puddin".
  • Philomena Manchester Davis
  • 8/9/1978
  • 1 cassette
Description:
Aunt Phi's story of moving the Manchester House. "A day out riding with Aunt Phi and Puddin".
3977Carlton Taylor
  • Document, Recording, Audio Recording
  • People
Interviewed by Judith Blank
  • Carlton Taylor
  • 3/21/1994
  • 1 cassette
Description:
Interviewed by Judith Blank