charroup a courge,class $1814. tifteenth [14] Report 1934 Pup. [15] Portugal, and in that proscription concurs my good friend so much of the Island's scenically important lands had been our doctor who lives next door. I intend, however, to rebel acquired and placed in public reservation with the Trustees and revolt." that jealousy arose, and a bill was introduced in the Maine Legislature, meeting in January, 1913, to take away their DORR writes from Bar Harbor: My life these last half charter and return their holdings to taxation. This bill I de- dozen years offers little outstanding of which a tale might be feated, but, after the hearing on it was over, returning to told. One lives more interiorly and less actively as the years Boston I went to President Eliot and told him what had hap- go by. pened, and that, without funds to develop or protect the But the story of the Acadia National Park, in brief out- lands we held, the only safe way, I thought, to secure the line, I will gladly tell. It sprang from a desire I shared with end we sought would be to get them accepted by the Federal President Eliot, a friend and neighbor on these shores, to Government as a national reserve. President Eliot, after a make safe from disfigurement, and free of access to the public first characteristic reaction that we could meet and fight the of the future, a great coastal landscape wherein for a term our attack as it arose, ended by agreeing, and I went to Wash- own homes were set. In September, 1901, President Eliot ington. called a meeting at Seal Harbor of a few people upon whose " What happened at Washington would be too long a interest in the matter he felt that he could count. The meeting story. I met with friends and I met with obstacles, but in was held, an association was formed, and President Eliot be- the end I accomplished what I set out to do. The eighth of came its president; I, its vice-president and executive officer. July, 1916, our lands were proclaimed by President Wilson, Nothing further happened for the next half dozen years, on the recommendation of his Secretary of the Interior, but in September, 1907, President Eliot came to see me, laid Franklin K. Lane, to be the Sieur de Monts National Monu- up in my home after a surgical operation, to make a friendly ment, named in honor to Pierre de Guast, Sieur de Monts, visit and to tell me that an old friend of his and of my family, the founder of Acadia, under a commission given him by Mrs. Charles D. Homans of Boston, had given our associa- Henry IV of France to take possession of the land, to colo- tion its first gift of land, a bold rock-headland looking to the nize it and Christianize it, laying the foundation for the south across the sea, with a little mountain lake, sunk in French Dominion in America. Two years and some months woods, which lay behind it, the Beehive and the Bowl. later this Monument was made a National Park by Act of 'Encouraged, I told President Eliot that as soon as I got Congress, first in the east, and unique in coastal situation, and upon my feet again I would try what I could do to get the in being created wholly by the gift of citizens. It bears the dominant and crowning summit of the Island, Cadillac name Acadia National Park." Mountain, so named by the Government on the Park's es- tablishment in memory of the Island's first private owner, JOHN FARLOW writes, May 2, 1934: continue to Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, soldier of Acadia and founder live at 127 Bay State Road, Boston, in the winter, and since of Detroit. It is this summit, now widely visited, to which the 1930 have spent the summers in the White Mountains, New Mountain Road, completed by the Federal Government two Hampshire. I have not engaged in any business or profes- years ago, ascends. sional activities for a number of years, my duties as Librarian With the help of a friend, I secured the land that fall, Emeritus of the Boston Medical Library being merely nomi- and, availing of every opportunity, at the end of four years nal. The monthly meetings of the Massachusetts Historical Charles W. Eliot to George B. Dorr Asticou, Maine September 16, 1910. Dear Mr. Dorr, Under the power given me by the new by-law adopted yesterday, I am ready to appoint any special committees that you will name. Is it not best to appoint them im- mediately? You spoke yesterday of two special committees, one on bridle paths, and the other on new roads. I hope you will soon be relieved from the necessity of taking quick, decisive action on purchases. That is a somewhat wearing business, which is an offset to the enjoyment which, on the whole, you ought to get from your admirable work for the Reservations. When the tran- sactions have been completed, so that you have made sure of all the necessary or very desirable places, I hope the time will come when all the acquired reservations can be indicated in green on the path-map of Mt. Desert, as was done in 1909 for the acquisitions on Green Mountain, the Beehive, and Barr Hill. You gave me great pleasures yesterday. To see the progress already make of the reservations, ad the promote Lost the immediate future was a great Safis faction. Chale W. sloot charles W. Cliot to David mouston Cambridge, Mass., March 13, 1913. Dear Mr. Houston: May I present to you my friend Mr. George B. Dorr of Boston and Mount Desert, who proposes to seek an interview with you to discuss the practicability of converting a large portion of the area of the Island of Mt. Desert into a national park. I have been familiar with the beauties and needs of that island for forty-seven years and have a summer residence there, and find Mr. Dorr's project a reasonable and a beneficent one. Mr. Dorr is a man of great public spirit, and gives a large part of his time to promoting the intellect- ual and material interests of Bar Harbor and the beautiful island on which Bar Harbor is the largest resort. He has strong interest in agriculture, horticulture, forestry, and landscape architecture, and has much practical knowledge on every one of these subjects. His interests, however, are not at all commercial. His object is always to make good use of these applied-science subjects in the promotion of the public welfare. (over) I congratulate you most heartily a the work to which you have set you hand. It is a cant of immerciable beneficence May you succesed in it and enjoy it ! Sicey goods, Chanee w. Elist 17 Fresh Pond Parkway Cambridge, Mass. April 14, 1914. Dear Mr. President: May I commend to your friendly attention my friend Mr. George B. Dorr, of Boston and Bar Harbor, who has in mind a plan for a National Monument at Mount Desert Island which seems to me to be of high value, and capable of effective execution. I am thoroughly acquainted with Mr. Dorr's plan, and I am in full sympathy with him as to its merits. No private person has the least pecuniary interest in it, and on Mr. Dorr's part it is wholly a work of public spirit. I am, with high regards, Sincerely yours, Charles W. Eliot. Hon. Woodrow Wilson. (COPY) Asticou, Maine 1 September, 1915 Dear Ellens Your view of George B. Dorr gave me some food for thought; and I have been reviewing his labors and his achievements, Some of his under- takings are unfinished; because they are comprehen- sive, far-seeing, and require the co-operation of many persons of liberal disposition. His largest and best plan for Mt. Desert requires the co-operation of the President of the United States and of several of the Government scientific bureaus. To procure such co-operation takes much time and a diffused, but energetic activity on the part of the promoter. On the other hand, some of Dorr's undertakings at and near Bar Harbor are finished, and are serving the purposes be had in view. Such are, O the Public Library for which Mrs. Jesup gave the money, but which Dorr imagined, engineered, and did. For the Y. M. C. A. building Mrs. John S. Kennedy gave the money but Dorr INIT, (September 1, 1918) 2. suggested and accomplished the job. The Build- ing of Art is another good work which Bar Harbor owes to Dorr. It has been finished, and in use for same years, and was never more useful than it has been this summer, when such first-rate music has been given there. Dorr's Mt. Desert Nurser- Les were wholly developed by him during a long term of years, and were a distinct horticultural achieve- ment, though probably never a successful business venture. During the last two or three years, Dorr has undertaken to build, with money that various persons have supplied, some first-rate roads and foot paths in the Big Headow, Dry Mountain, Picket Mountain, and Gorgo region. All these roads and paths have been admirably designed and laid out by Dorr, and executed under his direction. Three of them are finished and in use, and are great additions to the facilities of walkers; others are underway, and proceeding towards completion as fast as the coming in of the money permits. Dorr has been writing for the last four or five years two books, B one on the famous springs or water (September 1, 1915) S. sources of the anoient and modern world; the other on the literary use by poets and prose writers of allusion to the flora and fauna and to the habits of plants and animals. Neither of these books 18 of a nature to be finished offhand at a sitting; they have both required years of reading and note-taking. tells me that the first will appear withing a few months, and that the second is almost ready for the printer. As they are both books of the kind that can be worked at and added to indefinitely in the manuscript, it would not have been surprising 15 he had worked upon them as long as he lived, and left them to be published after his death. George Dorr is an impulsivo, enthusiastic, eager person, who works at a high tension, noglects his meals, sits up too late at night, and rushes about from one pressing thing to another; but he is very diligent, as well as highly inventive and suggestive. I submit that your idea that be never finishes anything is not well founded, and that what he needs from his friends is sympathy, support, and furthering in his undertakings, and good advice as regards the care of his health and moderation in work. Affectionately yours, CHARLES w. ELIOT Charles W. Eliot to George B. Dorr Cambridge, Mass. 4 April 1916. Dear Mr. Dorr, We have been back from Bermida a week, and I find myself wondering what has happened during the past three months about the monument, the observatory, the memorial trails, and the book. On inquiry, I am told that you are at Mt. Desert, so I send this large question mark, hoping that you have not been altogether absorbed in the work of a Selectman. Very sincerely yours, Charles W. Eliot. C. George B. Dorr, Esq. Charles w. Eliot to Georgo B. Dorr Esq. Cambridge, Mass. 15 April 1916. Dear Mr. Dorr: I take it that you sent me the Bar Harbor Record of April 12th, in which I have read with pleasure the report of the Town Meeting which acted favorably on your letter and the general project of increasing the facilities for golf at Bar Harbor. You have evidently made real progress towards the execution of your designs between Bar Harbor itself and the gorge between Picket Mountain and Dry. Is there any progress to report on the monument project, or the observatory project (Mr Kendall's)? I have not yet received a copy of your book, nor even an announcement of it. Sincerely yours, Charles W. Eliot. George B. Dorr, Esq. 17 Fresh Pond Parkway Cambridge 30 April, '16. Dear Mr Dorr: I have just sent you c/o the Cosmos Club the following night letter:- "When you see President Wilson about creating National Monument at m. Desert please assure him that as summer resident there for thirty-five years and President Trustees Public Reserva- tions I endorse project in general and in detail, and believe that Monument would be of high permanent value to whole country." The Maine Senator must not adduce political considerations - local or other. We wish you ccaplete success. Sincerely yours, Charles W. Eliot George B. Dorr, Esq. Cambridge, Mass., 21 April 1921 Dear Mr. Derri Heary L. Eno told no some works ago about the proposed transfer of the Marine Biological Station from Harpewell to Salis. bury Covo. It eeemed to no a very desir. able achievement, Dees it not suggest the completion of the organisation of the wild Gardens of Acadia and the organisation of a con ittee to raise an endovment for it! The seener it 1. announced the better. I hope your health has been pretty good this vistor, and that you are taking some care of yourself. Sincerely yours Mr. George B. Dorr Cambridge, Kass. 28 January 1923 My dear Dorr: How much you have accomplished in your recent flying visit to Bar Harbori Your acquisitions in lands are extensive and very desirable, including the Henderson area. How fortunate that he had signed the deed before he died. Shall you see J. D. R. Jr. on your way to or from Washington? Is there good reason for your still holding title to the recent acquisitions of land? How long is Lynam to be away on vacation? Has he much work to do before titles can pass from you to the public? Your remark "how few important books of history and biography are written" is certainly true today and through all historic times; and you are doubtless right in thinking that those few might well have been curtailed with advantage. The curtailment would be equally advantageous in the present flood of printed books; but I know from my own limited observations that it is hard to find the judicious curtailer. For instance, "Charles Eliot, Landscape Architect" needs (28 January 1923) 2. to be surtailed, if it is to be kept in circulation as textbook in schools of landscape architecture) but I cannot do it myself or find a compotent ourtailer. I have some hope that C. W. Eliot 2nd will later be able to do it. He said to me the other day that that book was his Bible. Sincerely yours, Charles w. Eliot. P. S. Have you now no stenographer? My secretary has been sick for & fortnight, and both the substitutes that I have employed have now given out, so granddaughter Grace is writing this for me! C. 1 1 1 Northeast Harbor, Me., 14 September 1923 My dear Dorr: Eliet Before I built a house in 1881 near Northeast 1873 Harbor, I camped on Calf Island, Frenchman's Bay, for eight years, and then became very familiar with the shores of the Bay and all its passages and inlets which were safe for a good-sized sailing yacht which drew five feet and a half. I then made the acquaintance of Schoodic Head and all the approaches to it by land and water. During these years I repeatedly climbed Schoodic Head, and enjoyed the wonderful prospects northeasterly by Petit Manan and beyond towards Grand Kanan, southwesterly towards Baker's Island, the Duck Islands, and Isle are Esut, and due west to the high hills of Mount Desert Island just across the bay. These prospects are unique. They are far the finest on the Atlantic Coast of the United States; and therefore the Head itself should be preserved in all its own beauty of geologic structure and forest decoration for the enjoy- ment of future generations. This conservation can be best made sure by adding the Schoodic Peninsula to the Lafayette National Park now established on Mount Desert Island. It will then come under the screatific management of the National Pale Screen Sing you. Chall w.Eliot. Charles W. Eliot to George D. Dorr Cambridge, Hass, 16 January, 1924. Xy dear Dorr: I wish I could share your pleasure in a "day of sunshine after a light fall of snow" at Kount Desert; but I can walk from my desk across the room and look with delight at those two beautiful photographs of the Eliot woods which you gave me. They often attract the notice of visitors at my Study. Sincerely yours, Charles W. Eliot. Mr. George B. Dorr. Charles w Eliot to George B. Dorr Esq. Cambridge, Mass., 7 February 1924. dear Dorr: Yours of the 5th is at hand. I have received notice of the meeting of the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations at Bar Harbor, and will sign the necessary deed whonever received. The tract will be a very valuable acquisition for the Lafayette National Park. There is certainly a remarkable outpouring of talk and tears over Wilson's death; but I doubt 11 it means that the American people is now going to do what he wanted them to do in 1920. That is, I doubt if the American people as a whole has recover- ed from the moral collapse it experienced in 1919. Moral reforms, like educational reforms, are very slow. Lodge has certainly not improved his own position before the country by what he lately said in the Senate. I wrote a rather full letter to Secretary Work, the main objects of which were to warn him against Pepper and to thank him for his prompt recall of his (7 February 1984) 2. order to stop work at the Lafayotto National Park this winter. What is to be apprehended is that the present movement in favor of economics in the National Service will extend to the parks, where economies mean reductions or postpoment of the public enjoyment of the Parks. Thore are only two regions of public expenditure in which economy is even a less legitimate motive than in the Parks, namely, the postoffice and the public schools. In those two departments economy is positively silly; because it is well known that expenditure there means increased productivity and higher profits in the important industries, and hence in national well-being. Sincerely yours, Charles W. Eliot. George B. Dorr, Esq. Charlos W. Ellot to George B. Dorr Esq. Cambridge, Mass. o, 20 October 1924 My dear Dorr: I have sent to Dr. Stillman your letter to me of October 17th. The acquisition of the Homans estate is cer- tainly a good job well done. I am hoping to hear from you about the Wild Gardens of Acadia. Sincerely yours, Charles W. Eliot. Mr. George B. Dorr. W Laurence 16 MEMORIES OF A HAPPY LIFE The Great Exposition was open, and the whole gay world was its gayest. Father's cousin, George Richards, partner of the bankers, John Munroe and Company, in Paris, had married a beautiful Boston girl a number of years before. CHAPTER II We children met our Paris cousins for the first time. One COLLEGE of them, a most attractive girl, Élise, later married a young 1867-1871 man in the French Foreign Office and some thirty years after came to the country of her mother's birth for the MIDWAY in the course of the Class of '71, Harvard crossed first time as the wife of the French Ambassador. Élise the line from a college to an American university. Charles Jusserand and her husband, in the more than twenty years W. Eliot was inaugurated President October 19, 1869, at of their residence in Washington through the administra- the opening of our junior year. As undergraduates it was tions of Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding, and Coolidge, our duty to be there; but the tall, thin form, and rather gained the affection and respect of the Nation. severe face of the young President aroused no enthusiasm Father with his simple New England traditions abhorred from the students. the Paris of the Empire, its flash, noise, and immorality. There must have been grave fears and great expecta- Eliok I have often heard him say that he would rather see his son tions among the doubters and supporters as the young in his grave than have him pass a year in Paris; hence, President laid down his radical platform, so familiar to nniv. when we took a train for Switzerland he felt as if he were us now. 'This University recognizes no real antagonism fleeing from 'Sodom,' as he often called Paris. Arriving between literature and science, and consents to no such credi at Dijon for a night, we were put into a musty hotel with narrow alternatives as mathematics or classics, science or windows opening upon the courtyard, where horses, cows, metaphysics. We would have them all and at their best.' and dogs swarmed. The familiar noises and the reeking 'A University must be indigenous: it must be rich, but smells brought father's memory back to the barn at above all it must be free. The winnowing breeze of free- Groton and Longwood, and he would have liked to go di- dom must blow through all its chambers. 'A University rectly home. But my mother was not the wife of a farmer, is built not by a sect but by a Nation.' nor was she fond of COWS and farmyards; SO we continued From my earliest boyhood Harvard College, which was our journey through Switzerland, down the Rhine, and to about two miles away from Longwood, across the Charles England and Scotland. Returning, I crammed for ten days, River, had been familiar. The westerly air wafted the took my Harvard entrance examinations, and on the after- chimes of old Christ Church to our house. We drove over noon of the second day stood in line before the Dean in as children to the Longfellows', and I remember well his office and was told that I had passed. Mrs. Longfellow, whose tragic death by burning shocked the whole community. The dancing around the Tree by the Seniors on Class Day was the great social event of the college year. It was a modest scene viewed at this dis- tance. The Class Day Tree, standing in the centre of the Quad created by Holden Chapel, Hollis, Harvard Hall, and the two-bar open fence on the street, had encircling its trunk at about nine feet high a broad band of flowers: I22 THE TERCENTENARY OF HARVARD COLLEGE umph is ultimately certain. That Harvard may live and flourish, the day rendered pleasant to her Sons, is the sincere desire and prayer of your humble servant P. Eaton Samuel Atkins Eliot of the Class of 1817, who was later Treas- urer of Harvard College, writes about certain arrangements for BicentEnnial the celebration which he had agreed to undertake for President Quincy and apologizes for his lateness in attending to the mat- ters because of the serious illness of his two-year-old boy. As Professor Morison remarks in his report: "It was lucky for Harvard that this baby recovered, for his name was Charles William Eliot." It is comforting to know that among the Harvard Alumni of one hundred years ago there were those who wished to enter a protest. It has, apparently, always been a characteristic of Harvard College that among its graduates one can count on an ample number of critics. As a representative of this important branch of the Harvard family one hundred years ago, I may put forward a gentleman from Philadelphia who wrote as follows: Excuse me for this frank expression of my feelings. I owe nothing to the President, professors and tutors of Harvard College in office from A.D. 1810 to A.D. 1814 But almost all the replies were in a different vein, and al- though Harvard individuality is shown by the language (no two replies being alike), the general sentiment is perhaps summed up by Samuel Wragg of the Class of 1790, of Charleston, who concluded his letter with this sentence: May the Sons of Harvard University celebrate her centenial anni- versaries to the end of time, each celebration witnessing her encreasing prosperity and reputation. With this sentiment, which we are glad to echo on this occasion, I conclude my report on the contents of the package sealed by President Quincy. In addition to this package there has been reposing in the Harvard archives for one hundred years another object of per- 160 THE TERCENTENARY OF HARVARD COLLEGE words, he first seeks the truth. Having tried to find the truth, he turns to the experience of the past, to the traditions that are a part of him, and then applies his own mind. (Charles W. Eliot, as a student at Harvard, gained strength from her traditions. He found that truth was eternal and yet each day must be sought anew. As President, his constant search for truth made him a true liberal, a true progressive, a pioneer. It kept him young, always seeking, always forward- looking. On his ninetieth birthday, from the steps of University Hall, he said that if a man didn't like his job, no matter what his age, he should change it. At ninety he had the courage of youth. Seeking the truth made him simple, straightforward. There was not a false word from his lips, not a false thought in his mind. His great strength came not so much from being right as from being true. At the celebration of his ninetieth birthday, Chief Justice Taft, a graduate of Yale, called President Eliot the greatest living American. Another who sought the truth, and saw it in President Eliot, was Dean Briggs, beloved by all for his kindliness and humor- a fisher of men. He was devoted to President Eliot. In collab- oration with our distinguished classmate, Samuel Eliot Morison, he selected the inscription on this gate from Henry James's Life of Charles W. Eliot. The inscription reads, He opened paths for our children's feet to follow. Something of him will be a part of us forever. The gate and fence were designed by our classmate, Rich- mond K. Fletcher, through the office of Cram & Ferguson. "Skip," as we know him, has made other contributions to Harvard traditions. He wrote the words and music of "Soldiers Field," "Gridiron King," and our Class Song with the refrain- Johnny Harvard we are here, Through the old Yard rings a cheer; For 1908 is with you, With the best that she can give you. Men of Harvard through your song Runs the old faith deep and strong That brings us back to Cambridge And the place where we belong. THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 2005 Mount Desert Islander Charles W. Eliot and the foundin By Judith Goldstein and fishermen to some of Amer- alarm from his summer home in first step. It took another three ica's wealthiest families. It took Northeast Harbor. Practical; years to convince Congress that Editor's Note: The following is no longer than 30 years for de- confident and optimistic, Mr. the Sieur de Monts National the second of a. four-part series velopment, speculation, frag- Eliot told his fellows summer Monument should have the ben about Acadia National Park's mentation of holdings and spoli- residents what needed to be efits - long protection and founding fathers. ation from cutting timber to done to control and preserve the financial support of belonging Almost, ninety years ago, threaten the traditional land MDI landscape. He applied the to the National Park Service. Mr. Charles W. Eliot, President of scape. Mr. Eliot raised the first conservation concepts developed Eliot and Mr. Dorr and Mr. Harvard University and summer by his late son, Charles Eliot Rockefeller succeeded in 1919 resident of Northeast Harbor, who had been an innovative, vi- when President Wilson signed tied the sublime landscape of sionary landscape architect in another bill creating Lafayette Mount Desert Island to the fed- Boston. In 1901, the senior Eliot National Park. eral government and the embry Founders invited his Mount Desert friends Until Mr. Eliot's death onic national park system. This to form the Hancock Country 1924, the triumvirate of historic step altered the Island's then dominant social and eco- day Trustees of Public Reservations. founders - Mr. Eliot, Mr. Dorr Over the next 15 years, Mr. and Mr. Rockefeller continued nomic preferences. Along with Eliot and his second lieutenant to work assiduously on expand Newport, Rhode Island, summer BAR HARBOR (George B. Dorr, enlisted the en ing and improving the holdings colonies in Bar Harbor, Seal The public is invited to thusiastic support of many other of the Park, which in 1929, was Harbor and Northeast Harbor celebrate the legacy of influential summer and year- renamed Acadia National Park. Lad become irresistible watering the founders of Acadia round residents. Through acqui- By the time of his death, Mr. pots for America's upper class National Park from 2 to sition and donations, the organi- Eliot had provided sufficient or nd educational and religious 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 13 zatron brought critical ganizational and intellectual lites. Exclusivity was one essen at the Bar Harbor Village properties into the holdings. By leadership in the cause of preser ial key to success. But for men Green. 1913 however, it was clear to vation to enable Mr. Dorr and uch as Mr. Eliot, social change Governor John Bal Mr. Eliot and Mr. Dorr that the Mr. Rockefeller to continue ras a small price to pay in order dacci, Acadia National acquired lands could not be ade- many years their efforts to , preserve the beauty of MDI. Park Superintendent quately protected from local and large and enrich the Park's hold xclusivity adjusted to the de Sheridan Steele and state opposition to their conser- ings. tocratic impulse as precious other speakers will share vation goals. With little hesitä- Charles W. Eliot left a distin roperties opened up to the short, informative stories tion; Mr. Eliot and Mr. Dorr guished legacy of dedication ublic, irrespective of religion about the founders and then turned to the federal gov- conservation, idealism and the lor, class or ethnic origin their gift to the nation. A ernment to assume protective public good - a legacy that has FA simplified history reveals cake and lemonade re- control. particular meaning for the his e following development and ception will follow. It took three more years to tory of Mount Desert Island rents. 'The growth of summer Those planning to attend convince the Interior Depart- Several weeks after President lonies in the 1870s and 1880s are encouraged to take ment and Congress that $5,000 Wilson accepted the donation used land values to escalate. the Island Explorer to the acres on Mount Desert should Mount Desert lands, Mr. Eliot e most desirable properties village green and to bring belong to the people of the hosted a triumphant public re sold by the Island's farmers chair or blanket. In case United States. In 1915, Mr. Eliot emony at the Temple of Arts of rain, the event will be brought John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Bar Harbor. He proclaimed held in the Bar Harbor into the campaign to underwrite "One of the greatest satisfac Congregational Church. the expensive process of acquir- tions in doing any sound work NELSON RARITIES Aug. 13 is the anniver- ing additional properties and for an institution, a town. or INCREDIBLE sary of the first gathering validating deeds and boundaries city or for the Nation is that ESTATE JEWELRY August 18-20 only of the people who In July 1916 President Woodrow good work done for the public formed the Hancock Wilson signed a bill establishing lasts, endures through genera County Trustees of Pub the Sieur de Monts National tions; and the little bit of work lic Reservations, the or Monument - the first ever cre- that any individual of the pass- ganization primarily ated from the donation of pri- ing generation is enabled to do sponsible for the vate lands. This was the same gains through association with founding of Acadia Na year that Congress established such collective activities an im tional Park. the National Park Service. For mortality of its own." Mr. Eliot's Mr. Eliot and Mr. Dorr, designa- work for the island and the na- tion as a monument was just the tion - the work that has en XFINITY Connect Page 1 of 2 XFINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.ne + Font Size Re: Archival Visit From : Ronald & Elizabeth Epp Wed, Nov 06, 2013 10:52 PM Subject : Re: Archival Visit To : Hannah Stevens Cc : bminner@nehlibrary.org Dear Hannah, Thanks for being so responsive. I'd like to visit the library on Wednesday, the 13th. late afternoon. Is that workable? According to my notes the pamphlets held in 2005 were #1 to 9, 11, 14, 15, 17-19, and 22. If there are others, I am very interested in knowing this. Please photocopy the following at my expense. The pamphlet titles of the Sieur de Monts Publications that I am interested in are: #1: Announcement by the Government of the creation of the Sieur de Monts National Monument. #6: Wild Life and Nature Conservation in the Eastern States. #7: Man and Nature. Our Duty to the Future. I wonder whether in recent years there have been researchers interested in your Eliot family archival documents. My manuscript very prominently explores the Eliot family in Cambridge and Northeast Harbor. Incidentally, I am interested in finding a home for my Charles Eliot, Charles W. Eliot, and Charles W. Eliot II research materials in the years ahead. It may be useful to discuss this when we meet and later to involve your director and Bob Pyle in these deliberations. As Bob may recall, my research involved intensive use of archival resources preserved by the Massachusetts Trustees of Reservations which Charles Eliot established. This first American land trust was used as a model by Charles W. Eliot in establishing on MDI the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations. As the late Reverend Peter Gomes of Harvard put it in a masterful 2007 Northeast Harbor address sponsored by the Friends of Acadia: "Not many Mount Desert people know much about the Harvard Eliot, and I can guarantee that few Harvard people know much about the Mount Desert Eliot." Perhaps your special collections can help bridge these two cultures as we approach the 2016 centennial of both the National Park Service and the establishment of the Sieur de Monts National Monument. That was my intent in The Making of Acadia National Park. I look forward to meeting you. All the Best, Ron Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. 532 Sassafras Dr. Lebanon, PA 17042 717-272-0801 eppster2@comcast.net From: "Hannah Stevens" To: "Ronald & Elizabeth Epp" Sent: Wednesday, November 6, 2013 6:04:45 PM Subject: RE: Archival Visit Hi Ronald, http://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=160831&tz=America/New_York&.. 11/6/2013 XFINITY Connect Page 2 of 2 The library will be closed on the 11th, but we'll open the 12th and 13th Would you like to schedule a visit on one of those days? Afternoons are best for me since I split my time as librarian, but I can accommodate if I know in advance. Do you happen to know the title(s) of the pamphlets? If I can locate them I'll photocopy them for you so they'll be ready. Also, if you'd prefer I can scan and email PDFs of them instead or as well. Let me know what you think. Best, Hannah From: Ronald & Elizabeth Epp [mailto:eppster2@comcast.net] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 5:29 PM To: hstevens@nehlibrary.org Subject: Archival Visit Dear Ms. Stevens: Bob Pyle encouraged over the last decade my archival labors to complete a biography of George Bucknam Dorr. On several occasions he permitted me access to the archives in the "old" library where I photocopied many documents relating to the Eliot family and Mr. Dorr. I will be traveling to MDI from Pennsylvania and staying in Seal Harbor with Anne and Lance Funderburk on November 11-13. I would like to photocopy three pamphlets that form part of the Sieur de Monts Publications series. Recently I discovered that I misfiled the copies I made earlier but now I need to recover for my 2016 publication by The Friends of Acadia of The Making of Acadia National Park. Be assured that I am familiar with library policies and procedures having been director of the Southern New Hampshire University library. I will try to call in advance to assure myself of your availability on either Tuesday or Wednesday. I look forward to meeting you. Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. 532 Sassafras Dr. Lebanon, PA 17042 717-272-0801 eppster2@comcast.net http://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=160831&tz=America/New_York&... 11/6/2013 Property Detail 8/10/05 10:52 AM The KNOWLES Over 100 Years of COMPANY Professional Real Estate Service HOME REGISTER CONTACT US x REAL ESTATE SALES BLUEBERRY LEDGE Contact us about this property LUXURY PROPERTIES Send this page to a friend Residential NEW Shorefront Land 137 Peabody Drive Northeast Harbor, ME 04662 VACATION RENTALS PROPERTY MANAGEMENT LISTING #: 109 REALTY RESOURCES MLS #: 741384 Bedrooms: 9 Bathrooms: 7 MY PORTFOLIO Living Area: 5400 +/- Sq.Ft. Property size: 4.4 +/- Acre(s) ABOUT KNOWLES Municipality: Mount Desert Shorefront: 395 +/- Ft. 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Blueberry Ledge is a very special property, not only for its priceless views and situation, but also because of a unique atmosphere of living history. Additional Comments: hhttp://www.knowlesco.com/content/SalesPropertyServlet?mode=detail&id=107&SearchUrl=/content/SalesPropertyServlet?mode%3Dluxury-shorefront-list Page 1 of 2 Property Detail 8/10/05 10:52 AM Blueberry Ledge is situated on Peabody Drive, partway between Northeast and Seal Harbors. From the deep-water dock enjoy direct access to some of the best sailing waters east of Newport, Rhode Island. One can hike from a Park trailhead found just across the road from Blueberry Ledge to the Carriage Roads, Acadia's mountaintops, or to Jordan Pond House for afternoon tea & popovers. Excellent restaurants are within a short drive, as are several golf courses, marinas, and the local airport. Property Description Sheet Property Showcase Slideshow Download the PDF Launch Presentation Back to Search Results