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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island

"1935Northeast Harbor Library As Bar Harbor evolved into a premiere vacation and leisure destination, it was only a matter of time until the movies…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Basketball: From Rivals to Teammates

"Bar Harbor and Pemetic in Southwest Harbor served their communities until consolidation. The name "Mount Desert High School" has a more complicated…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - About Us

"… X Contributing Institutions Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, (207) 288-3519 The mission of the Abbe Museum is to inspire new learning about the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Of The Arts Era

"… Bar Harbor Casino A Play at the Bar Harbor CasinoBar Harbor Historical Society Lillian Gish at the Bar Harbor PlayhouseNortheast…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Indians & Rusticators: Wabanakis & Summer Visitors on Mount Desert Island 1840s-1920s

"Wabanaki encampment, Bar Harbor, ca. 1890Abbe Museum In the olden days, from about 1860 to 1900, I well remember that Indian encampments were the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Development of an Island-wide Identity

"Jackson Memorial Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ca. 1960Jesup Memorial Library In the latter half of the 20th century, old institutions grew and new ones…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Guiding Services for Sport Hunters

"… Harbor, 1881Abbe Museum Many Wabanaki men at the Bar Harbor encampments made themselves available as guides to take summer people in canoes for…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes

"… Behind the Scenes Indian encampment, Bar Harbor, 1881Abbe Museum All the cooking at the Indian encampment is done out-of-doors, just in the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Performance

"Early Performance The Indian Village, Bar Harbor, ca. 1909Jesup Memorial Library Frank “Big Thunder” Loring, ca."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More Permanent Settlers Arrive

"They settled around the island in what is now Bar Harbor as well as Somesville, Otter Creek, Northeast Harbor and Southwest Harbor and Tremont."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 4 of 6

"The 1947 island fire had ravaged Bar Harbor and brought an end to much of the already declining wealthy summer colony there while hardly touching the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economy on Mt. Desert Island

"The Bar Harbor Hospital was built in 1897, MDI Biological Laboratory began as the Tufts Summer School of Biology in 1898, and the Jackson Laboratory…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Big Thunder

"… This photo of Frank Loring appeared in the Bar Harbor Record Centennial Souvenir Edition, 1896."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Savage Family of Mount Desert

"… Reed, Worcester, and Corson descendants while Bar Harbor counts among its first white settlers the Higgins, Thomas, and Eden families."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Student Narrative of MDI History

"… and throughout New England at the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor. In 1604 Samuel de Champlain wrote in his journal on September 5, “The same day we…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born

"According to a Bar Harbor Record newspaper article dated 1898 and entitled "Harbor Cottage. An Old Landmark Which is Being Remodeled," A.C."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"(It did not change its name to Bar Harbor until 1918.) Island life was improving -- and its economy growing."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …next came the artists and rusticators.

"… which is in the soul like a fountain of cool waters to the way-worn travelers. -Thomas Cole, painter, 1836 Continue to Arriving in Bar Harbor"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 5 of 6

"… was with renowned landscape gardener and Bar Harbor summer resident Beatrix Farrand (1872-1959)."

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Lincoln, Maine - Ferries

"It travels from Bar Harbor to Nova Scotia, Canada. Bridges now allow us to go over bodies of water that we would never be able to cross before."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

"… the family piano Mame's mother bought for her in Bar Harbor in 1915 to encourage her early musical talent."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"… eastern shore, and visit the villages of Bar Harbor, Southwest Harbor, and Somesville. The Logbooks Champlain Society Camp log, Mount Desert…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Settlement

"… Harbor Library Northeast Harbor Section of 1807 Map by James and John PetersNortheast Harbor Library Climena Roberts Savage…"