Description: Program from the Thanksgiving Service of the Congregational Church of Cranberry Isles. The program includes an overview of the service as well as notices regarding Sunday School and a reception following the service as well as a biography of Rev. Stanley B. Haskell, who led the service. People Mentioned: Stanley B. Haskell
Second Baptist Church of IslesboroHahn, Raymond D.
Place:
Islesboro ME
Description: An announcement, sent by the Second Baptist Church of Islesboro and the Maine Seacoast Mission, seeking a minister for the island of Islesboro. The announcement lists the future pastor's duties, necessary qualifications, compensation, and information about the Islesboro church and community.
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: The report provides a list of information about the Week Day School of Religious Education in South Gouldsboro, Maine and describes the methods of work for the primary, intermediate, and grammar and junior high students. People Mentioned: Florence Brown, Ethel Trout, Walter Squires
Description: A report on Mother's Day celebrations observed at the Church School in South Gouldsboro, Maine. The report describes the celebration decorations as well as the program for the event. Also included in the report is general information about the school as well as its total enrollment. People Mentioned: Mamie Morrison, Alice Peasley
Description: An official warrant calling a meeting of petitioners for the organization of an independent local church in Matinicus, Maine. People Mentioned: Henriette H. Arnis, Manan Young
Description: Mrs. Carnegie wrote this note on mourning paper three years after Mr. Carnegie's death on August 11, 1919. Louise Carnegie sends a check in support of the Maine Seacoast Mission and compliments the organization on its fine work.
Description: The unidentified treasurer of the Maine Seacoast Mission writes to Mrs. John I. Kane telling her of the purpose of the Seacoast Mission home in Bar Harbor and stating that the board believes they must buy the house, currently for sale, rather than risk it being purchased by another party. Purchasing the building would take almost the entire endowment of the Mission, however, and so the treasurer suggests that a gift to support the purchase of the home it would be an excellent investment opportunity for someone, like Mrs. Kane, who likes to do good. [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: This 1948 Spring Bulletin provides updates on the Maine Seacoast Missionary Society's finances and activities, including a schoolhouse clothing sale. People Mentioned: Albert Pione, Neal D. Bousfield, Etta Ames, Jessie Philbrook, Bud Dwelley, Anson Williams, Alvah Robinson, Mrs. Alvah Robinson, Thomas Searls, Ann Calley, Ethel Corbett, Edith Drury, Bert Smith, Louise Dalzelle, Sabrina Beal, Sherb Carter, Alice Peasley, Phyllis Sylvia
Description: The Spring 1947 Bulletin provides updates about the work of the Maine Seacoast Missionary Society. Articles of particular note discuss improvements to the Sunbeam, visits to small schools on the coast and islands, and the mission's work to help the family of an island man who died alone on the mainland. People Mentioned: Anson Williams, Carl Hall, John Young, Rebeccca Douglas, Jenny Alisa, Thomas Heming, Ann Calley, Raymond Colbrun, William Berry, C. L. Bowman, Edith Drury [show more]
Description: This Christmas 1946 Bulletin includes news briefs, information on finances, first-hand accounts of living on an island, and articles about the work of the Seacoast Mission. People Mentioned: Thomas Heming, Anson Williams, Cornelius E. Clark, Mrs. Anson Williams
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]
Maine Sea Coast Missionary Society Schauffler, A. F.
Moulton, W.
Lewis, Alfred Homes
Schieffelin, William Jay
Rogers, John S.
Searls, Thomas
MacDonald, A. M.
Stratton, Milton
MacDonald, Alexander P.
Publisher:
Bar Harbor Record Print Shop
Date:
1916
Place:
Crowley's Island
Description: This annual report includes individual reports from the Society's director, missionary, and treasurer as well as financial information, a list of gifts received for Christmas and relief work, and a list of life members. People Mentioned: Heneretta Howell, Katharine B. Haskell, Maude C. Douglass, Mrs. William G. Ladd, Mrs. Miles B. Carpenter, Mrs. A. F. Schauffler, Mrs. John S. Kennedy, Vida F. Moore, Payson Smith, Charlotte Thather, Wakefield Patten, H. B. Webster, Charles I. Loud, E. Charlott Rogers, W. S. Coulton, Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, J. L. Farrington, M. B. Means, B. B. Lyons, Mrs. C. L. Mitchell, Mrs. John Stafford, Elizabeth Minot, Mrs. F. Leonard Kellogg, Joseph B. Lynam, Mrs. F. W. Chandler, Elinor Brooks, J. W. Hudson, Charlotte W. Hardy, C. T. Bowker, E. M. Cousins, Mrs. Malcolm Donnell, Mrs. W. H. French, Heneretta Rodick, H. G. Bunker, Mrs. A. L. Strout, Alice Mason, Annie Lord, Earl Ricker, William Watkins, Ruth M. Woods, Gladys Teffe, Mrs. Fred Gebhart, A. F. Schauffler, Carrie F. Wilson, Kate L. Wallace, Mrs. G. E. Douglass, Mrs. R. Wakefield, Mrs. J. M. Longyear, Mrs. Miles B. Carpenter, Andrew Carnegie, Mrs. Horatio Hathaway, Mrs. Charles P. Turner, Mrs. W. W. Seeley, Mrs. Gardiner Sherman, Mrs. Alexander Mackay-Smith, Augustus C. Gurnee, Mrs. L. H. Wood, Anna Blanchard, H. H. Kimball, Mrs. James Mifflin, Mrs. R. H. McCormick, Mrs. Elliot F. Shepard, Henry Van Dyke, Mrs. Morris K. Jesup, Eleanor DeGraff, C. M. Thatcher, Mrs. Frederick Baker, Mrs. John W. Auchincloss, Mrs. L. E. Opdycke, Alfred Homes Lewis, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr., C. B. Spence, Henry D. Moore, Mrs. F. Jewett Moore, John S. Rogers, W. G. Ladd, Mrs. W. G. Ladd, Charlotte S. Baker, F. S. Allis, Jean MacCay Allis, Mrs. George F. Arnold, Mrs. B. W. Arnold, E. E. Auchincloss, Lyman Abbott, Mrs. E. M. Burrall, Charles E. Bennett, Mrs. C. T. Bowker, Mrs. William Burnham, H. T. Buck, Mrs. A. E. Bartlett, William Adams Brown, E. J. Brooks, Mrs. Edgar W. Bass, L. F. Benson, Mrs. S. E. Beggs, H. A. Brown, Mariamne Biddle, Mrs. E. S. Bristol, E. C. Bodman, B. F. Bates, Mrs. Nathaniel. Bowditch, Nathaniel Bowditch, William A. Butler, Stuart M. Buck, Christine W. Biddle, DeWitt Clinton Blair, Lincoln F. Bridgham, Sarah W. Chapin, Mrs. Frederick Crane, Mrs. Edward Coles, William Clark, Mrs. E. H. Clark, Mrs. W. W. Card, Mrs. F. R. Cope, Maud H. Church, George S. Chase, Mrs. T. DeWitt Cuyler, Mrs. Z. Chafee, S. W. Colton Jr., H. L. Clark, A. R. Campbell, Mary P. Clay, Matthew B. Du Bois, Mrs. E. S. Dana, E. S. Dana, Margaret Deland, Mrs. A. J. Davis, William J. Dawson, Mrs. John E. Dodge, Mrs. C. F. Dole, C. F. Dole, Mrs. J. W. Danielson, Mrs. Thomas Denny, Alice R. Davidson, Charles D. Dickey, L. A. Emery, C. W. Eliot, Mrs. Johnathan Evans, Mabel Emerson, J. A. Furfey, Mrs. Robert H. Fowler, A. H. Gallatin, J. A. Gannett, Mary Hoffman, Charles H. Hammond, Mrs. A. W. Halsey, A. W. Halsey, Mrs. Thomas H. Hubbard, Mrs. H. Hessenbruch, Eleanor S. Irish, Helen S. Hones, Alice E. Jones, Mrs. F. L. Kellogg, Mrs. John I. Kane, George W. Kelley, Mrs. William Kingsland, Charles G. Lowd, H. A. Lawford, C. P. Latimer, Mrs. Lea McIlvaine. Luquer, Mrs. Warner M. Leeds, Mrs. C. H. Livingston, Mrs. John Markoe, Walden Myer, W. J. Moulton, Mrs. D. H. Morris, A. B. Morrill, Mrs. W. T. W. McCay, Mrs. Pierrepont Morgan, Sarah M. May, Mrs. H. E. Morton, Mrs. R. B. Moffat, Mrs. L. C. Maderia, Mrs. Abbie Nash, Mrs. Emerson Opdycke, Mrs. M. A. Phelps, T. H. H. Patterson, Emma E. Porter, M. Taylor Pyne, Mrs. L. Packard, W. C. Philbrook, Mrs. J. H. Patten, G. L. Paine, Margaret Paul, May Roberts, Mrs. G. S. Robbins, Mrs. C. H. Russell, E. L. Smith, William J. Schieffelin, Mrs. William J. Schieffelin, G. L. Stebbins, Ella A. Slaven, A. G. Sherry, Mrs. William H. Schieffelin, Donald Scott, J. A. Steiwertz, Helen B. Sargent, George Smith, W. L. Staub, W. O. Sawtelle, Mrs. W. O. Sawtelle, Alice Tufts, Mrs. Joseph Tunis, J. G. Thorp, J. J. Tellinghast, E. B. Thelberg, R. G. Tower, Mrs. R. G. Tower, Mrs. S. W. Thaxter, B. H. Vaughn, Stanley White, Mrs. A. C. Wheelwright, A. Murray Young, Eliza L. Homans, Vida F. Moore, Emma F. Richardson, Mrs. E. M. Hall, Mrs. C. P. DeLaittre, Lota A. Clark, C. M. Chilcott, Mrs. L. B. Cutts, Eleanor Brooks [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. A newsletter-style bulletin, this issue includes several articles about Angus MacDonald, the Mission's first president, as well as articles about mission boats, an organization called the Sunbeam Club on White Head, vacation bible school, Seacoast Mission rugs, and a New Year's letter from Sigma Kappa sorority. People Mentioned: Henry Van Dyke, W. J. Moulton, J. Homer Nelson, Thomas Searls, Alice M. Peasley, Orville J. Guptill, Versal F. Robey, Myrtice D. Cheney, Annie L. Guptill, Lucy A. King, Mrs. M. A. Daily, Eva B. Ammidown, Mrs. A. F. Schauffler, Mrs. John I. Kane, Mrs. John Markoe, Mrs. Frank B. Rowell, Eleanor de Graff Cuyler, William Jay Schieffelin, John S. Rogers, John W. Auchincloss, William Adams Brown, M. W. Stratton, B. E. Clark, Herman Lunt, Elmer Davis, Angus M. MacDonald, Alexander P. MacDonald, Anne MacLeod MacDonald, H. E. White, Alexander MacKay-Smith, John S. Kennedy, Elizabeth H. Mitchell, Mildred M Tabbutt, Alice Mason, Mary Gamage, Mattie Cole, A. R. Tabbutt, Mrs. Leslie A. Wilson, Mrs. Fred Rhodes, Mrs. A. C. Ladner, A. C. Ladner, Mrs. F. Leonard Kellogg, Joseph Parker, George A. Gordon, Mary Caffrey Lowe Carver,Carver. L. D., Mrs. R. D. H. Emerson [show more]
Description: This colorful button was presented by Rev. Orville J. Guptill from 1925-1938 to children who regularly attend Sunday School. People Mentioned: Orville J. Guptill
Description: A glass plate negative depicting Hiram and Nelson Lunt, two men from Frenchboro who died in 1920. The village of Frenchboro can be seen in the background. People Depicted: Hiram Lunt, Nelson Lunt Black and White
Description: A glass plate negative depicting John Lunt and Alec Davis, two men from Frenchboro. The village of Frenchboro can be seen in the background. People Depicted: John Lunt, Alec Davis Black and White