Frances Eliot reminisces in this essay of summer days in Northeast Harbor with Charles Eliot, President of Harvard Univ. (her father-in-law). She was the wife of Rev. Samuel Eliot.
Description: Frances Eliot reminisces in this essay of summer days in Northeast Harbor with Charles Eliot, President of Harvard Univ. (her father-in-law). She was the wife of Rev. Samuel Eliot.
Short biography of Rachel Field's life on Sutton Island and nearby Cranberry Islands and how her environment influenced her writing. Published in Down East Magazine, August 1971.
Description: Short biography of Rachel Field's life on Sutton Island and nearby Cranberry Islands and how her environment influenced her writing. Published in Down East Magazine, August 1971.
Buckboards and down-home cooking were the chief creature comforts for island visitors in the decade before the great hotels and cottages began to crowd the scene. Published in Down East Magazine, July 1995
Description: Buckboards and down-home cooking were the chief creature comforts for island visitors in the decade before the great hotels and cottages began to crowd the scene. Published in Down East Magazine, July 1995
Description: Excerpt of an article by William Otis Sawtelle in a 1925 Sprague's Journal of Maine History. Sir Robert Mansell bought Mt. Desert Island in a lottery.
Short biography of Beatrix Farrand - her family background, her education, her focus on her Reef Point Gardens in Bar Harbor, and her landscape projects, including the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller garden in Seal Harbor. Published in Down East Magazine, July 1985.
Description: Short biography of Beatrix Farrand - her family background, her education, her focus on her Reef Point Gardens in Bar Harbor, and her landscape projects, including the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller garden in Seal Harbor. Published in Down East Magazine, July 1985.
Article about Little Cranberry Isle post office and postmaster Joy Sprague, who built a big business for this tiny post office with cream puffs and a personal touch. Published in Down East Magazine, December 1994.
Description: Article about Little Cranberry Isle post office and postmaster Joy Sprague, who built a big business for this tiny post office with cream puffs and a personal touch. Published in Down East Magazine, December 1994.