Author: Charles B. McLane Publisher: Tilbury House Distr ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 432
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Volume IIThe McLanes have delved into a wealth of primary sources to spin their tales of the early settlers of Maine's islands and their descendants.
Author: Fodor's Publisher: ISBN: 1400019044 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 322
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Provides information on the accommodations, restaurants, and local attractions along Maine's coastline, including the Acadia National Park.
Author: Philip W. Conkling Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 260
Book Description
Island Institute founder Philip Conkling writes about Maine island residents and wildlife from prehistoric times to the present. He examines the geology and climate of the islands, as well as the changing culture of current island communities.
Author: David Little Publisher: Down East Books ISBN: 1608934756 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 282
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The Mount Desert Island and Acadia region of Maine has been the subject of artists for hundreds of years and many of America’s most celebrated painters have been inspired here. From Thomas Cole to Richard Estes, painters have captured the exquisite beauty of the island on canvas. Their work has drawn visitors year after year and helped inspire the preservation of its extraordinary natural beauty through the creation of Acadia National Park. This view of the region through the works of talented artists grants a new perspective to our collective appreciation of this unique convergence of land and sea.
Author: John M. Bryan Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press ISBN: 1568983174 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 316
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Robert R. Pyle Our sense of place and community is made up of memories—personal memories of first-hand experience; oral memories that recount our ancestors’ experiences; and f- mal, codified civic memories set down in laws, ceremonies, and rituals. Together they are vital building blocks of citizenship. In a vivid and meaningful way this book p- serves memories relevant to understanding the roots of communities on Mount Desert Island, Maine. The surnames of many of Mount Desert’s earliest settlers are still found in today’s telephone directories. In these families many oral traditions are passed down from generation to generation, building outward from a historical core like the rings of a tree. “Dad used to farm this field,” Fred L. Savage’s great-nephew Don Phillips told me once, gesturing toward an alder growth. “His father grew vegetables for the hotel, and my great-grandfather grew grains. This road used to go right on up over the hill, and they used it to move the cemetery up there from where the hotel is now. ” Describing the field, Don ignores the alders and the towering evergreens beyond them, for in his mind’s eye he sees yellow, waving wheat and rye, bare ground, and a narrow cart track leading up the hill into the distance, on which his ancestors tra- ported the remains of their own forebears to a new resting place. Oral traditions, living memory, set the stage for him, and he accepts the reality of things he has never seen.
Author: Charles B. McLane
Author: Charles B. McLane
Author: Mrs. Clara Barnes Martin
Author: Charles B. McLane
Author: Fodor's
Author: Philip W. Conkling
Author: Charles B. McLane
Author: Alfred Fullerton Loomis
Author: David Little
Author: John M. Bryan