Maine Memory Network

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

"Mount Desert Island has long been known for its natural beauty, the resilience of its native people, and the contributions of those who have made it…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - A Short History of Mount Desert Island

"… Hansen, adapted by Tim Garrity Mount Desert Island has long been seen as a place of abundant resources and natural beauty, where hardy people…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Original Mount Desert Island Pilot Project (2006)

"Student narrative history of Mount Desert Island. Northeast Harbor: From Rustic to Rusticators By: Willie Granston The Granite Industry By: Mark…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"… 1880s, the Rodick family still lived on Rodick's Island, now Bar Island, where they raised sheep and spun and wove their own wool."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"… Society The human history of Mount Desert Island began thousands of years ago when the ancestors of the Wabanaki people came to the place they…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Inns

"… Memorial Library The list of Mount Desert Island inns is long and legendary. It begins modestly with the island’s first public house established…"

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

"Movies Come To The Island Criterion & Star Tickets, Bar Harbor, ca. 1935Northeast Harbor Library As Bar Harbor evolved into a premiere…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Civil War

"It lasted from 1861 to 1865, and because of it, much changed. Some island men went into the infantry or Navy."

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

"It included all of Mount Desert Island, as well as the Cranberries and Bartlett's and some smaller islands."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life

"1930 Bar Harbor, as it appeared in 1930.Maine Historical Society Islanders still fished, but instead of sailing to Labrador, they stayed more local."

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

"For them, the island was a familiar place long frequented by their ancestors for fishing, hunting, and gathering."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Third Generation and Beyond

"… descent to make a homestead on Mount Desert Island. The Manchester family first settled in 1775 near present day Manchester Point at the mouth and…"

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

"… 5, “The same day we passed also near to an island about four or five leagues long, in the neighborhood of which we just escaped being lost on a…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators

"… (powered by oar, paddle, sail or steam)? Brave an island tour in a buckboard? Stroll a field and pick wildflowers? Some combination of these…"

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

"The island has its enduring and localized family clans, most who settled in the mid-18th century and were immigrants of European descent."

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

"Champlain Society Camp Pemetic, Mount Desert Island, 1881Mount Desert Island Historical Society Champlain Society member, secretary, and Botany…"

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

"1955Mount Desert Island Historical Society Road Signs, Northeast Harbor, ca. 1955Mount Desert Island Historical Society Of particular note is…"

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

"… draped the long strands over lines to dry in the island breeze, creating colorful curtains of blue, red, and green."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 3 of 6

"… used as lodging for summer guests who came to the island from urban areas of the Northeast for long term stays from mid-June through Labor Day."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"… who recorded the visual beauty of Mount Desert Island in their artwork, the tourist industry on Mount Desert Island was born. As a result, the A.C."

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

"… and taught in schools away from Mount Desert Island in Maine and California between the years 1943 and 1953."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Island Postmistresses

"Small. POSTOFFICES First Island PostmistressSwan's Island Historical Society For some fifty years after the settlement of this town there was…"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Resources, Links, and Bibliography for Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold

"Maine Coast Heritage Trust owns Malaga Island. “Malaga Island: A Century of Shame,” a Portland Press Herald Article by Colin Woodard about the…"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - About the Project

"… Maine State Museum’s year-long exhibit “Malaga Island: Fragmented Lives” in Augusta in 2012. For Kate Philbrick and myself, we are incredibly…"