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MF 043 Northeast Harbor Library
Collection
Number of Interviews: 11
Dates when interviews were conducted: circa 1970-1980
Time period covered: late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries
Principal interviewers: varied
Finding Aides: transcripts
Access Restrictions: yes
Description: These accessions were brought to the
Northeast Archives by Pamela Dean. They are copies of tape-recorded
interviews about the history of Northeast Harbor, Maine, and are
from the Northeast Harbor Library's oral history collection. They
provided part of the source material for Dean’s M.A. Thesis, Us
and Them: An Oral History of Life on the Summer Estates in Coastal
Hancock County, Maine. (University of Maine, 1984.) See
also
MF
119 “Us and Them” Summer Estates Collection.
1724 Northeast Harbor Library. 1973. Maine: Northeast Harbor. 5
pp. Tape: 1/4 hr. w/ edited trans. Interview with Samuel Eliot
Morison about summer life on the Maine coast. T1843
1788 Northeast Harbor Library. Maine: Northeast Harbor. 5 pp.
Tape: 1/4 hr. w/ cat. Copy of Northeast Harbor Library interview
(Tape C-9) with Natalie Pierrepont about childhood summers in
Bar Harbor; buying and restoring homes in Northeast Harbor.
RESTRICTED. T1875
1789 Northeast Harbor Library. 1984. Maine: Northeast
Harbor. 3 pp. Tape: 1/4 hr. w/ brief cat. Copy of Northeast Harbor
Library interview (Tape C-9) with Georgiana (Harper) Sibley
about her childhood summers in Bar Harbor. RESTRICTED. T1876
1790 Dean, Pamela. Spring 1984. Maine: Northeast Harbor. 4 pp.
Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ brief cat. Copy of Northeast Harbor Library
interview (Tape C-3) with Julia Fairchild, Elizabeth Gardner, and
Mary Peabody about summer social life; houses and shops in
Northeast Harbor at the turn of the century. RESTRICTED. T1877
1791 Dean, Pamela. Spring 1984. Maine: Northeast Harbor. 5 pp.
Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ partial cat. Copy of Northeast Harbor Library
interview (Tape C-10) with Virginia Fitch, about early
Northeast Harbor residents; history of the summer colony; St. Mary’s
Church; stories about Bishop Doane, Nathan Fennelly and Josephine
Ober. RESTRICTED. T1878
1792 Dean, Pamela. Spring 1984. Maine: Northeast Harbor. 14 pp.
Tape: 1 hr. w/ partial cat. Copy of Northeast Harbor Library
interview (Tape C-16) with Elizabeth Gardner, granddaughter
of Bishop Doane, founding member of the Northeast Harbor summer
colony, discussing her childhood summers in Northeast Harbor.
RESTRICTED. T1879
1793 Dean, Pamela. Spring 1984. Maine: Northeast Harbor. 2 pp.
Tape: 1/2 hr. No cat, or trans. Copy of Northeast Harbor Library
interview (Tape C-17) with Malcolm Graves (also known as Joe
Green) in 1977 about his rumrunning activities during the
Prohibition years on Mount Desert Island. RESTRICTED. T1880
1794 Dean, Pamela. Spring 1984. Maine: Northeast Harbor. 2 pp.
Tape: 1/2 hr. No cat, or trans. Copy of Northeast Harbor Library
interview (Tape C-11) with Mary Holmes, a long-time resident
of Mount Desert Island and Northeast Harbor, about life, houses, and
stores on the Island in the early 1900’s. RESTRICTED. T1881
1795 Dean, Pamela. Spring 1984. Maine: Northeast Harbor. 2 pp.
Tape: 1 hr. No cat, or trans. Copy of Northeast Harbor Library
interview (Tapes C-4, C-5) with Robert L. Smallidge about
life, housing, education, transportation, etc. on Mount Desert
Island and in Northeast Harbor in the early 1900’s. RESTRICTED.
T1882
1796 Dean, Pamela. Spring 1984. Maine: Northeast Harbor. 2 pp.
Tape: 2 hrs. No cat, or trans. Copy of Northeast Harbor Library
interview (Tapes C-20 #1 & #2) with Endicott Peabody, a
long-time summer resident of Mount Desert Island and Northeast
Harbor, about his childhood summers on the Island and some of the
natives he knew. RESTRICTED. T1883 - T1884
1797 Dean, Pamela. Spring 1984. Maine: Northeast Harbor. 2 pp.
Tape: 3 hrs. No cat. or trans. Copy of Northeast Harbor Library
interview (Tapes C-24 #1, #2a, #2b) with Dan McPheters about
the history of Maine guides; stories of his experiences guiding
"sports." RESTRICTED. T1885 - T1881
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