Russell,Jack 2/3/2017 XFINITY Connect XFINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.net + Font Size - Re: Time Capsule From : Jack Russell Fri, Feb 03, 2017 07:04 PM Subject : Re: Time Capsule To : Ron Epp Cc : Aimee Beal Church David MacDonald , Cookie Horner , Bill Horner , Tim Garrity There is no one we would wish to please more, Ron. Thank you for watching and sending your message of appreciation. We were able to send our message and vessel forth because dedicated historians such as you devoted decades to discovering and sharing essential dimensions of the Acadia story. Onward With Appreciation, Jack On Feb 3, 2017, at 5:29 PM, Ronald Epp wrote: Dear Jack, I've just watched the facebook video of the time capsule ceremony. Wonderful! Your eloquence lifted the event with its focus on the community that has created and will nourish the next century of Acadia. Mr. Dorr would be so very proud of you, Cookie, David, Aimee, and so many others who made this a reality. My weekend will be spent examining the inventory and wondering how it all fit into the capsule. Relax and revel in the accomplishment! Ron Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. 532 Sassafras Dr. Lebanon, PA 17042 717-272-0801 eppster2@comcast.net 9/19/2015 XFINITY Connect XFINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.net + Font Size - Re: photo Mount Desert Nurseries From : Ronald Epp Sat, Sep 19, 2015 09:42 PM Subject : Re: photo Mount Desert Nurseries To : Betsy or John Hewlett Hi Betsy, Good to hear from you. Thanks for the image. I had not seen it. Earle has great stuff in Augusta. But now that he has retired I wonder how accessible it will be. I'm a member of the MHS and he has a talk and running exhibit on Maine photography scheduled for later this month. Wish I could see it. You say you've submitted a manuscript to the MDIHS. Is it being considered as a separate publication or as an article in the next issue of Chebacco? I assume the former. I'm working on a cartographic project with Tim that just arose with a contact at COA. Congratulations on its completion!!! My entire manuscript is within the last week entirely in Aimee's hands and about to go off to the compositors. I was on MDI in mid-August for a week. Archival work at the Chapman law firm and meetings at FOA, MDIHS, and park HQ. On the nursery truck, this strikes me as something I've seen. But the source is an unknown. I'll check my nursery file and get back to you. I'll also check the images in the park copyprint master collection for you. Have you checked the Internet. Use Google and enter in quotes "Mount Desert Nurseries" & images. Lots of irrelevant stuff will appear but also some gems, catalogues, pubs, pics of the Tarn, etc. But no truck. Are you planning an presentations next year as part of the ACP events program? I've got about five such events in various stages of preparation, the first at the northeast Harbor Library on 8/3/16. I've made a deposit on a cottage in Blue Hill for the entire month of August, 2016 (too busy on MDI for my taste). Perhaps we could devise a common thread and do a joint talk? Let me know if this interests you. Getting late. More later. All the Best, Rion From: "Betsy or John Hewlett" To: "Ronald Epp" https://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=322505&tz=America/New_York&xim= 1/2 9/19/2015 XFINITY Connect Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2015 7:09:21 PM Subject: photo Mount Desert Nurseries Hello Ron, I hope that your summer has brought you good times and weather. Not sure if you are here on the island or not. We were away all of July and August but are now back and enjoying September. I have submitted a manuscript to MDI Historical Society about Mount Desert Nurseries and the change in Island occupations during the years 1880 to 1920. Hopefully, the manuscript will be accepted and I can continue to do some more fine tuning and improving before I have to say "enough." In the interim, I am trying to track down the photo of a panel truck that says "Mount Desert Nurseries" on the side. I don't have a copy of the photo, can't remember where I actually saw it, and came up with you as the only other person that might have the key to the vault on this one! Does this photo ring a bell with you? I have found, through Earle Shettleworth, a terrific color postcard of the Nurseries, ca 1918, that was a W.H. Sherman production. Attached image for your information. Earle has given permission for me to use the photo with my article. If you want it also, please contact Earle. Sorry to bother you with this enquiry. I always think that I am making careful notes, but I did not when I saw the truck photo and can not recall the provenance. Hope your work is moving in the direction that you desire. Please keep in touch! Best, Betsy Hewlett 28 Ridgewood Lane Mt. Desert, ME 04660 207-244-9775 https://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=322505&tz=America/New_York&xim=1 2/2 10/9/2015 XFINITY Connect XFINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.net + Font Size - Re: [SHARP-L] Bibliography Week 2016 From : R. W. Holibaugh Thu, Oct 08, 2015 11:50 AM Subject : Re: [SHARP-L] Bibliography Week 2016 To : Ronald Epp Mrs. Fournier's Foreward is masterful, Ron. She captures in such an extraordinary way respect and appreciation for Acadia, Mr. Dorr and for your work. It's wonderful to see solid evidence that your intelligence, diligence and integrity will now be widely recognized. BRAVO, Ron! I'm thrilled for you in this moment. Perhaps next year, there will be an opportunity to convey to Maureen what a splendid piece she has written. Once again, you've stumped me with the book you mention. I'll be interested to hear your appraisal. The notice re Bibliography Week was merely an FYI in case you weren't aware of this event. A few years ago, Bob Filgate, the other recipient of my email, and our wives went to the City to look at a Grolier exhibit. Thanks for sharing Maureen's tribute and the other information. Ciao, R Sent from my iPad On Oct 8, 2015, at 9:30 AM, Ronald Epp wrote: Ralph, Feeling better I hope! I checked out the online sites for Bibliography Week and decided that a late January visit to NYC was not in the cards for me. Back to you. This reference reminded me that Henry Petroski's The Book on the Bookshelf was on the middle shelf in the guest bedroom, neglected for the last two years since I bought it. Perhaps next week I'll give it a try. Have you read it? Give Penny a hug from me! This afternoon, I am told, the Dorr ms. leaves the publisher for the designer. Page proofs by mid-November when the indexing begins. I've attached a copy of the Foreword which my ranger friend Maureen Fournier wrote. Ronald From: "RWH" To: "Bob Filgate" , "Ron Epp" Sent: Thursday, October 8, 2015 7:48:32 AM Subject: Fwd: [SHARP-L] Bibliography Week 2016 Begin forwarded message: From: John Renjilian Date: October 7, 2015 at 11:06:02 PM EDT Subject: FW: [SHARP-L] Bibliography Week 2016 https://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=327084&tz=America/New_York&xim= 1/2 10/5/2015 XFINITY Connect XFINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.net + Font Size - Re: Speeches from 8/22/1916? From : Jack Russell Thu, Sep 10, 2015 03:21 PM Subject : Re: Speeches from 8/22/1916? 1 attachment To : Bill Horner Great, 77 - - thank you! These look to be from Dorr's book, right? As I recall, he did not have all of LBD's speech - including some of the most sublime passages. With great appreciation! Jack On Sep 10, 2015, at 3:10 PM, Bill Horner wrote: HERE YOU ARE. On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 12:15 PM, Jack Russell wrote: 9/10/2015 Friend Ron, I believe we discussed at our breakfast my plan to reprise the 8/22/1916 Building of the Arts celebration of the founding of Sieur de Monts National Monument on 8/22/2016 - at St. Saviour's in Bar Harbor. The church is willing. My idea for the core program would be to have direct descendants of Eliot, Deasy and Dorr give some or all of the speeches made by their illustrious ancestors. Bill has agreed to "be" LB Deasy. Our friend Diana Paine would be a fine voice for President Eliot, her great-great granddad - and I will ask her as soon as she returns from Mongolia. Alas (as far as we know!) George had no issue. So unless you have a somehow better idea, I turn to you with my first invitation to "be" your grand subject for an afternoon next August. I know that you would be great. I do not know if you have plans to be among us then - but hope you could. I have some additional ideas about how to gussie-up the event with some displays - and I have also thought of having "that lunch" for direct descendants of the original HCTPR preceding the show. (But I/we need to test Boy Josh to see if he will behave, first.) I also have a silly presenting issue re all this. I seem somehow to have misplaced my Dorr books so have no copies of even the fragments of the speeches that are in them. So I turn to you to ask if you have these three speeches in your files? If so, in digital form? I would love to get myself organized SO that I have clear copies of the full speech each of this trio made on 8/22/1916. Can you help? I hope you are enjoying bringing your great ship into safe harbor. We all await! Onward! https://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=319820&tz=America/New_York&xim=1 1/2 July 6, 2011 Dear Harald and Bunny, Through the scholarship and collegial generosity of my friend Ron Epp, I have the pleasure to provide you with an historical artifact I hope will be of some interest to you. As you may know, for the past twelve years Ron has been at work on a biography of George B. Dorr. His book will be of great value to all who love the park and share an interest in the history of this place. Ron admires your work and would love to join us tonight, but he and Elizabeth are in the midst of a move, even as Ron wrestles with revisions and prospective publishers. Mindful that Dorr "is often faulted for his at best indifference and at worst hostility to the local Native American population of his day," Ron shared with me, and wishes to share with you, a remarkable letter that sheds new light on Dorr's view of the Wabanaki and their history. The enclosed letter, dated April 9, 1919, is from Dorr to Mr. Frank Bond, the Chairman of the United States Geographic Board. Dorr writes to request two name changes to mountains within the newly established Lafayette National Park. He would have all of Sargent/Jordan renamed as Penobscot Mountain and Flying Squadron (until recently, Dry) renamed as Peace Mountain, confining the then-new name to one part of the proposed Peace. We know how these proposals turned out; perhaps one day we'll know why. But more important and, Ron hopes, of special interest to you, is the knowledge of, and attitude toward, Wabanaki history that George B. Dorr displays in the letter. He is hardly pitch-perfect to the standards of today, but he seems here, to my ear and heart, at least, to be of much more empathetic sensibility than some may have thought. He even proposes, based on the requested name change to Penobscot Mountain, to have the park mount a major "study of their lives and ways, their food and the plants they grow, their basket-work and other manufacturers." It surely took a while, but can we - and you! - feel that this worthy goal has finally been accomplished in Asticou's Island Domain? Scholarship can be a current that unites serious professionals - even if, in this case, through the medium of an amateur most pleased to serve. May the shock of recognition run the full circle round! With Appreciation and Respect, Jack Russell Jackrussell101@earthlink.net Page 1 of 3 From: "Jack Russell" Subject: Re: Dorr Ms. -Pt 1. Sent date: 06/21/2011 12:01:38 PM To: Dear Ron, Thank you, sir. First, a high five on your transitions! I wish for you the sense of peace and forward lean that came to me once Sandy and I were finally, fully back on MDI, in our own place, most work on it done (or SO I thought!) and a reasonably ordered daily life settling in. Good for the soul an good for the head! I completely understand the totally appropriate conditions on which you agree to provide limited access to your more-than-one-decade of heroic work. I will NOT print any of the manuscript nor share the files with anyone else without your written permission. (If, in our efforts up here to build support for an "FOA/ANP-oriented" publication, pursued only with your comfort, it should become useful to have one or two other readers who would be thus informed advocates, I will request your permission and heal to your instruction. To put this theme in most comfortable composition for me, I will soon send you a hard copy letter stating my understanding of the terms of access, my full comfort with them, and my commitment to follow them. This will make me feel best. The only possible difficulty I can imagine is when I teach my fall ASC course. I will have read your book at least once well before then and SO will know, thanks to you, much more about Mr. Dorr, his work and his context, than -- well, than I did before, for sure! The natural instinct is to share some of this learning as I talk to the class. Obviously I would make then aware, with great pride, that you have provided me conditioned access. Certainly I would try to find a way to indicate what I want to discuss that is an "Epp discovery." And I would happily seek a way, efficient with your time, to achieve your comfort with my sharing. From my perspective, the best way forward in terms of my ASC class would be for youto be up here on either 10/6 (Class 5) or 10/13 (Class 6, the last) to give a talk to my class on Mr. Dorr. But Elizabeth wisely counseled, when I hinted that hope when we last talked, that "that sounds like a long time from now!" But if that is a possibility, I would love to have the honor, and that way of relieving any issues about how to share what I have learned from you. Now, my friend, imagine me up late for several nights to come, at my MacBook, perhaps with Scotch in hand, following what you have achieved, sentence by sentence, over the last decade! With Respect and Appreciation, Jack On Jun 21, 2011, at 11:15 AM, eppster2@myfairpoint.netwrote: Hi Jack, https://webmail.myfairpoint.net/mail/message.php?index=10005&mailbox=bWJveA%3D. 6/21/2011 Page 1 of 1 From: "Jack Russell" Subject: Book Sent date: 06/13/2011 04:44:47 PM To: "RonEpp" Brother Ron, I hope the inevitable chaos of selling, moving and adjusting is not too vexing. I am glad to have those passages in life behind me -- I think! I regret that we had SO little time when you and Elizabeth were last here, but pleased that I did at least have benefit of a great presentation at ANP. You were on! When we visited too briefly thereafter, you gracefully indicated your willingness to put the Dorr biography draft on a flash drive stick and send it to me, with the understanding that this substantial professional courtesy would be for my use as an ASC teach this fall only. I know that my ability to make sense of MDI 1865-1916 and especially to bring GBD alive within the story of 1901-16 will be greatly enhanced by learning from your decade-long labor and deep reflection. I am eager for that pleasure. If there are tasks you might wish to assign me as a reader, I would, of course, do my best. But I also have a wider purpose for wanting to read the manuscript. I feel strongly, and am not alone, that your work should be published, before 2016 -- and that if academic presses are tarrying, we up here who support your heroic labors ought to explore what we can do, here, to move the cause forward. I am not certain what dimension this might take, but I can envision as one possibility a joint effort of ANP and FOA. I hasten to add that I have not discussed this in any way yet with the leadership of either organization -- but I am prepared to do SO. Obviously, a condition precedent for that must be that I know what I am talking about because I have read the manuscript! I do not want to raise hopes without some basis, but I am ready to work with others to make a strong case -- provided, of course, that we would have your permission. Your Eager Admirer, Jack https://webmail.myfairpoint.net/mail/message.php?index=9894&mailbox=bWJveA%3D%... 6/13/2011 Page 1 of 2 Re: MDI Names & Chapman Archive From "Bill Horner" To Cc "Russell, Jack" Date 06/06/2011 08:35:30 AM Dear Ron: FOIH just received a grant from the Maine Community Foundation for strategic planning purposes. Although less in amount than requested, it will enable us to hire a facilitator the help us work out the governance nuts and bolts of the organization. We will not pursue 501(c)(3) status in that at least 6 of our members have attained that and would act as fiscal intermediary for fundraising or receipt of donations. Also, we do not want to appear as competitors to the existing nonprofits. I will email you as soon as I have made the initial foray into the firm filing system. Thanks for the additional names. It appears that we should cast a wide net. Best, Bill On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 4:20 PM, wrote: Dear Bill, Thanks for the update on Peter Johnson. The two part plan moves the project forward and incorporates the FOIH mission. On the latter, Elizabeth wondered whether the FOIH had been incorporated. She raised this issue because of the financial prospects from the MDI 250 celebration. I know you have wanted to keep matters informal but you might want to address some governance and legal issues as your great grand dad Deasy would have put it. Regarding the names list I provided, I certainly don't think of it as comprehensive and many other names of possible Deasy-Lynam-Rodick clients would likely be suggested by others. I would find it useful to have you checkmarked any name on my list that is on the firm client list since I have a greater interest in seeing whether there is any additional Dorr related materials in the firm files. Can you provide this to me when the task is completed? I would also add to my list the names of the other sons of JDR Jr., especially Laurance. Finally, there may be in the client file list names of non-clients, as one might have in a cross-referenced file; for example, Mr. Rockefelller Jr. frequently communicated through his attorneys with directors of the NPS (S. Mather, H.A. Albright, A. Cammerer) and Secretaries of the Interior (Lane, Work, etc.) and their names might be included as well. Food for thought! Have a delightful weekend and good luck with Brass Week--wish we could be there! Ron Epp Quoting Bill Horner : Ron: Thanks so much for your lists. This one in particular presents a challenge and in an strange kind of way correlates with my second conversation with Peter Johnson of yesterday. I think we have him--hook, line and sinker. He is very enthusiastic and outlined the following two part plan. He and Jack Meyers will come up in early August. They want to talk with a select subgroup of our Friends collaborative. I previously gave Peter a copy of the 3 page document of May 5, which describes our accomplishments, plans for going forward, vision and accord statements. He is impressed and asked if he could share it with https://webmail.myfairpoint.net/mail/message.php?index=9783 6/6/2011 11/13/2015 XFINITY Connect XFINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.net + Font Size Re: Acadia/Dorr Thesis Research From Jack Russell Thu, Nov 12, 2015 08:43 PM Subject Re: Acadia/Dorn Thesis Research To : Ron Epp Thank Ron. I will save, absorb, and listen for your thoughts. Jack On Nov 12, 2015, at 8:33 PM, Ronald Epp wrote: Jack, Greetings. I received this email (below) two days ago. Took me by surprise but I was also impressed by the care and thoughtfulness of Bates College senior Adam Auerbach. I've responded to the issues he raised with encouragement and three chapters from the Dorr bio relevant to his concerns. It occurs to me that in cultivating the next generation of national park scholars, it might be possible to figure out a way to make him a part of the ACP celebrations. You may recall that this past year senior Sean Cox worked on a similar project at the U. of Maine under the esteemed Richard Judd, serving as a FOA Summit Steward and jack-of-all trades at park HQ. I'd like to see something open up for him as well should he remain in the area. I'll give some thought to whether I could integrate either of them into one of my talks next August. Frankly, I have not thought this through and much will depend on what Adam does with the information I provided, but I thought I'd send this off so that the idea can bounce around in your head for awhile. I get the bio proofs on the 20th and am now working on descriptors for the thirty or more images that will be in Creating Acadia National Park--most you have never seen! Is all well with Bill Horner? I've sent him a couple of emails and have not heard back from him, which is quite unusual. Onward! Ron Epp From: "Adam Auerbach" https://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=335597&tz=America/New_York&xim=t 1/2 11/13/2015 XFINITY Connect To: eppster2@comcast.net Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 10:59:47 PM Subject: Acadia/Dorr Thesis Research Dear Mr. Epp, My name is Adam Auerbach, and I am a senior at Bates College in Lewiston. I am currently working on an honors thesis within the Environmental Studies Department about proposed national park debates throughout Maine's history. My work is focused on comparing the conservation values suggested by park supporters and opponents in the current debate around a proposed national park east of Baxter State Park with the conservation values that were present in historical national park debates in Maine. Given this project, I am researching the public debates that were present when Acadia was a proposed national park/monument in the 1910s, when the area that is now Baxter State Park was a proposed national park in the 1930s, when the Allagash was a proposed National Recreation Area and National Riverway in the 1960s, and when RESTORE proposed a national park in northern maine in the 1990s-the present. Specifically, I am hoping to find sources that demonstrate the ways park supporters and opponents argued their positions in these various park debates, with a particular lens for the values evidenced by arguments for and against national park creation. I am looking to find promotional literature, letters, editorials, speeches or newspaper articles relevant to these past park debates. I understand that you are currently working on a biography of Dorr. Given this, I am sure you are aware of where to find sources concerning the way Acadia was supported and opposed when it was a proposed national park/monument. I am particularly interested in the ways Dorr himself promoted the park. I am hoping you might have some advice for me as to how I might best find the types of sources I have outlined above for the Acadia portion of my research. Moreover, if you are willing to share any of your work, I would greatly appreciate reading it, even though I know it is not yet published. Also, if you are familiar with anyone else you think I would want to talk to about this, please do let me know. Any advice you might have for me would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your help here, and I look forward to hearing back from you. Best, Adam https://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=335597&z=America/New_York&xim= 2/2 11/2/2015 XFINITY Connect XFINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.net + Font Size - Re: swapping chapters From : Catherine Schmitt Mon, Nov 02, 2015 10:53 AM 1 attachment Subject : Re: swapping chapters To : eppster2@comcast.net Hi Ron Just a note to say thank you for your help and information. I'm looking forward to your book, and maybe even doing some events together next year! My book is titled Historic Acadia National Park, due out in late spring from Lyons Press/Roman & Littlefield. Catherine Ronald Epp writes: Dear Catherine, I apologize for the delay in fully responding to your query. I trust you received my earlier message. I'm knee deep in securing permissions and rights to publish proprietary narratives and images in the Dorr book. Frustrating process. As you might suspect, there is scant evidence of attempts to revoke the HCTPR charter. Dorr's own words have been taken as authoritative on this matter and frankly I did not make the effort top check the media and legislative evidence in Augusta. I'm at a loss abut what you mean by "other local reaction to conservation activities" other than to say that it was too early for much local opposition other than tax revenue issues. You ask whether there was a rush to get monument status? On the part of the Trustees there was a sense of urgency born out of continuing the momentum, taking advantage of networking that Dorr had cultivated in Washington, and the fear that as the war clouds darkened, all could be lost by a realignment of national priorities. You ask, "why not wait" and get park status after passage of the Organic Act. Simply put, the passage of that act was even less likely for it required congressional approval whereas all that was needed for national monument status was Wilson's utilization of Antiquities Act powers. There are many quotes from Mather and Albright regarding Sieur de Monts N.M. having special status-- that put it on the fast track for national park status. In fact, Eliot, Dorr, and others referred to it as a national park from the very beginning not as a wish but with confidence that the new NPS would advance its status. But the first priority is to win the war! By the way, you mention that "Dorr must have known the organic Act was in the works." from my reading of Albright's detailed account of the drafting of that document, there was a rather tight circle of players in the process and SO I did not extrapolate that this information was shared with "outsiders." Dorr only developed a tight relationship with Mather's team after the NPS was established. How goes your work? Who is publishing it and when? If you wish me to provide feedback on issues or https://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=332652&tz=America/New_York&xim=1 1/3 11/2/2015 XFINITY Connect content, let me know. I've finished with the Dorr ms. and later this week Aimee will complete her editorial work. Then it is off to the compositors while I line up candidates for cover blurbs and start putting together content for summer talks during the centennial. Ronald Epp From: "Catherine Schmitt" To: eppster2@comcast.net Sent: Monday, August 31, 2015 11:20:12 AM Subject: swapping chapters Hi Ron A belated follow-up to conversations aboard the Waves of Change cruise. I am working toward completion of my manuscript of "Historic Acadia National Park" and am looking for info regarding the 1901-1919 period, chronology of park legislation, and specifically 1. Anything on Eliza Homans 2. The 1913 legislation to revoke the HCTPR charter - motivations and citations, other local reaction to conservation activities 3. Was there a rush to get monument status - Dorr must have known the Organic Act was in the works why not wait to get "park" status from the beginning? Thanks and let me know if you need any info from me! Catherine Catherine Schmitt science writer & author Bangor, Maine 207.944.1587 web catherineschmitt.com twitter CoastCompanion facebook | CatherineSchmittWriter https://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=332652&tz=America/New_York&xim= 2/3