Description: This narrative self-interview by Wendell Hadlock provides Hadlock's memories of growing up on Islesford and of the Cranberry Isles group generally. Hadlock provides some second-hand information about the islands from the 19th century, but focuses primarily on the years from his birth in 1911-1960, when the document was written. The memoir discusses, among other subjects, general island life, social life, island schools, the coast guard station, summer visitors, and linguistics. People Mentioned: Warren A. Spurling, Robert Morse, Leona Sawyer, George Hadlock, Bill Hadlock, Bert Spurling, Nathan Stanley, Nettie Stanley, Gilbert Hadlock [show more]
Description: Thomas, the Maine State Superintendent of Public Schools, writes MacDonald regarding schools for children on seacoast islands. Thomas writes that many families prefer to send their children to the mainland for schooling and suggests that this plan could be adopted for the following year. He also states that, for those places that do not care to send their children to the mainland and where there is a sufficient number of children, the state will establish full time schools. People Mentioned: Josiah W. Taylor, Harold A. Allan, Adelbert W. Gordon, Florence M. Hale, E. K. Jenkins, Percival Proctor Baxter [show more]
Description: Sigma Kappa (__) is a national sorority founded in 1874 at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Since 1918, Sigma Kappa has supported the Maine Sea Coast Mission as one of its philanthropies. This booklet, created for the Sigma Kappa sorority Diamond Jubilee Convention in 1950, describes the history and purpose of the Maine Seacoast Missionary Society and includes photographs of the Society's boats, staff, and activities. People Mentioned: Alexander MacDonald, Angus MacDonald, Alexander Mackay-Smith, Mrs. Arthur Berry, Neal D. Bousfield, Thomas Heming, Alice Peasley, Thomas Searls, Edith Drury, Wilfred Grenfell [show more]
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: A glass plate negative depicting children in front of the Islesford School on Little Cranberry Island during the winter of 1905-06. Black and White
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: A glass plate negative depicting children inside the Islesford School on Little Cranberry Island during the winter of 1905-06. Black and White
Description: A glass plate negative depicting children from the Cranberry Isles standing on a dock and on a boat, about to embark on a Sunday School excursion. Black and White
Description: A glass plate negative depicting the family of John Purington and their dog on Nash Island. Depicted are Bob, Raymond, Carol, Mary, and part of Jennie Purington. People Depicted: John Purington, Bob Purington, Raymond Purington, Mary Purington, Carol Purington, Jennie Purington Black and White
Description: A glass plate negative depicting Captain Ingalls, the lighthouse keeper at Petit Manan, and others with a boat on a sluiceway. Black and White
Description: A color slide depicting a large group of unidentified children in front of a building, possibly a school group. Ektachrome Transparency processed by Technicolor Color