College 4th Atlahe Natural History Museum http://www.coa.edu/nhm/ The Museum of Natural History 207-288-5395 This Matural Dietoru College of the Atlantic / Bar Harbor / Maine / USA The newest jewel in the crown of College of the Atlantic is in place. The Museum of Natural History opened to the public in its new building on June 19, 2000. The campus is located on Rt 3 between the ferry terminal and downtown Bar Harbor. We're open through the winter: Thurs, Fri, Sun, 1PM to 4PM Saturday, 10AM to 4PM AFAYATIO NATIONAL The building was once home to the original headquarters of Acadia National Park and was located near the town pier. The structure has been renovated and expanded to provide a unique site for exhibits and programs. The architect has successfully combined elements of the old building with modern museum spaces. The Museum of Natural History has created a wonderful environment for visitors to Maine, as well as serious students of human ecology, to relate to the natural wonders of one of America's premier areas. The new facility will surely become a magnet for the many people who take advantage of the many exhibits and programs of the museum. 1 of 2 1/24/01 9:52 AM Natural History Museum http://www.coa.edu/nhm/ The Museum of Natural History investigates and interprets the natural history of Maine through a human ecological perspective. Detailed exhibits created by COA students depict the plant and animal life of Maine, each portraying how different species interact with natural and human environments Hands-on materials such as baleen, fur, wings and bones are found throughout the Museum encouraging visitors to touch, smell, dissect, listen and create while learning about the natural world. Museum staff lead a variety of programs and activities throughout the day, including special presentations at the marine environment tank. Our museum is located on the campus of College of the Atlantic, among the spruce and granite of Bar Harbor, Maine. Our address is: Museum of Natural History College of the Atlantic 105 Eden Street Bar Harbor, ME 04609 Phone: (207) 288-5015 or 288-5395 General e-mail: museum@.ecology.coa.edu A museum store offers quality books, toys, cards, COA shirts and other keepsakes. 2 of 2 1/24/01 9:52 AM The Museum of Behind The Dorr Natural History The Newsletter of the George B. Dorr Museum of January 2002 Natural History, College of the Atlantic At the Museum Winter Happenings What can students DO at College of the Winter can be a cold and quiet time in Bar Atlantic? It's a question heard over and Harbor, but the Museum is open and has over again at the Museum. Now, the planned special programs. newest exhibit on display can help answer that question. FAMILY FUN SUNDAYS This winter, a new exhibit of student work The Museum presents a series of family will be on display from Thursday, January programs designed for children from 17 through Sunday, March 10. An kindergarten through fifth grades with an opening reception will be held at 4 PM, accompanying adult on Sundays, January Thursday, January 10. All members of the 13 and 27, February 10 and 24, and COA community are invited to attend and March 10, at 2 PM. Each 90 minute meet the students whose works are on program is led by a COA student and display. includes information, activities and crafts. The cost of the programs is museum Last summer the Museum showed works admission plus a small materials fee. from a variety of students in a highly Reservations are encouraged as space may successful exhibit. This fall, students were be limited. Call the Museum for again invited to submit works from additional information. classes, and senior and independent projects, in all media and from all ESCAPE THE WINTER BLUES disciplines. The museum received photographs, sculptures, books, posters Members of the COA community will take and more. The selected works represent participants away from the cold with a the variety of subjects explored at COA series of lunchtime presentations in the and the talent expressed by COA students. Museum classroom. Faculty, staff and students will offer slide shows and The show will remain on exhibit presentations from 12:40 - 1:15 PM on throughout the winter term and there are Tuesdays, January 15 through February additional student shows scheduled for 26. Bring your lunch and enjoy these spring term and the summer. free presentations. College of the Atlantic; Campus Tour - Landscape http://www.coa.edu/campustour/landscape/farrand.html College of the Atlantic Search I Site Map Contact Us Campus Tour Home Overview Farrand Gardens Campus Map Architecture Two years after purchasing and extensively remodeling Guy's Cliff on Student Housing Eden Street, Mrs. James Byrne of New York City asked landscape gardener Landscape Beatrix Farrand to design a rose garden Farrand Gardens here. The garden, completed in 1929, Gazabo & featured a geometric parterre designed to Monks Walk display Mrs. Byrne's rose collection. Nature Trail Newlin Gardens North Lawn & The Shrine Pier College of the Atlantic acquired the Town Green property in 1970, and after Guy's Cliff Walking Tour burned down in 1983, the stone walls and terraces remained. With funding provided by the Garden Club of Mount Desert and Mr. and Mrs. David Rockefeller, landscape architect Patrick Chassé developed a restoration plan for the Farrand Garden. Initial work included clearing the view, repairing stone walls and restoring the "garden room" concept with a border of trees and hedges. The parterre is visible from Kaelber Hall and the upper terrace. While not a literal restoration, the footprint of the garden remains the same; the transposition is in the materials. A screen of conifers encloses the garden and focuses the view overlooking Frenchman Bay. COA At a Glance I Admission/Financial Aid I Academic Program I Summer Programs Campus Life I Faculty & Staff I Offices & Facilities Alumni News & Events Associated Programs | What's New Home College of the Atlantic . 105 Eden St. . Bar Harbor, ME 04609 Phone: (207) 288-5015 Fax: (207) 288-4126 1 of 2 4/11/01 9:15 AM 1/28/2016 XFINITY Connect Ron From: "Carrie Graham" To: "Ronald Epp" Cc: "Aimee Church" Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 12:14:35 PM Subject: Re: Dorr Museum & ANP Park Office Dear Dr. Epp, Thank you very much for your e-mail. Your offer of information about the building arrived at an opportune time, as our faculty members and students are currently creating a series of special exhibits to celebrate the Centennial. One of those exhibits will focus on the history of the building and the legacy of Dorr himself. The draft of your Chapter 21, 1994 COA study and copy of the primary sources packet would be of great help to us at this point! I am planning to attend your event at the Jesup and will stock your book in the Dorr Museum shop. I very much look forward to reading it! Sincerely, Carrie On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Ronald Epp to grant certain powers to Hancock County Trustees of public reservations.'' > Section 3 of the amendment reads, "Lands and improvements thereon, held by said > corporation, for free public use, shall be exempt from state, county or town > taxation except in the town of Eden." The key here appears to be "except in the > town of Eden." Interestingly we also found that Rep. Sherman was the same > Sherman who owned Sherman's Bookstore and ran the Bar Harbor Record. We wonder > if this explains why we have found no mention of the bill or the controversy in > the BH Record. We still have not been able to find out why Sherman introduced > the bill. Besides your mention of Realtors and land speculators, we have not > uncovered who was opposed to the reservations or why. Were these Realtors even > local people? > > I have a few more question that you may be able to help us with. You said that > you are focusing on events prior to 1901. Do you have any information on how > locals felt about the rusticators? Also, what kinds of occupations were held by > local people that might have been compromised by setting aside land? Do you > think the issue was about restricting uses like logging and development or more > about the removal of land from the town's tax base? > > We were thinking it might be helpful for us to talk to Judith Goldstein. Since > you are friends with her, do you think that is something we should do? Could you > give us her contact information? > > Our report has to be finish this Friday, June 5th. If you can get back to me > soon that would be wonderful. Unfortunately I will not be in Maine after June > 9th to meet with you, but we can probably send you a copy of our report when it > is finished. > > Thanks again for your help, > > Peter Jenkins > > >>>> 5/21/2009 4:31 PM >>> > > > Dear Peter, > > First off, my apologies for not responding to your first request. My > only excuse is that I too am working against a June 15th deadline for > submitting the first half of the biography of George B. Dorr to my > publisher. I've been immersed in events prior to 1901 when the Hancock > Country Trustees were founded and so I resisted being drawn forward > into two decades. > > I will presume you've read the popularization of Dorr's The Story of > Acadia National Park where on pages 27-29 of the Acadia Press edition > he characterizes the incident. Dorr family friend Richard Walden Hale > Jr. also discusses the incident in The Story of Bar Harbor (1949) > where Hale says (pg. 195-196) that "who were the men behind the > incident does not matter." Yes, it does! But that kind of shoddy > scholarship is not atypical of Hale. > > Are you aware of historian Judith S. Goldstein's Majestic Mount > Desert (1996)? She is a dear friend of mine who summers in Somesville > at her place on Somes Pond and has a superb understanding of the https://webmail.myfairpoint.net/hwebmail/mail/message.php?index=310 6/3/2009 Page 3 of 4 > societal issues that shaped the history of MDI. The closest she gets to > answering your question in general terms is as follows: "Partially as a > result of the automobile challenge and partly because of conflicts > between land speculators and the Trustees, Dorr and his organization > were suddenly under intense pressure from Bar Harbor's year-round > population." (p. 18) > > All of this you may have already uncovered. You have aided my > research by identifying the local Bar Harbor legislator. How did you > uncover this fact? > > What I know as a result of examining all the surviving --yet > incomplete--minutes of the HCTPR, is the following: The pressure > appears to come from Realtors who feared that real estate donated to > the Trustees was costing them sales and that this land philanthropy > movement that Dorr was championing was gaining momentum. When Dorr > arrived in Augusta he enlisted the support of John A. Peters. Yet I > wonder if you knew that the Papers of Judge Peters were recently > uncovered by Josh Torrance in Ellsworth, and they may contain > information relevant to your interests. Peters would be the executor of > Dorr's estate and their relationship even at this early date was very > tight. I have not been able to uncover any details of which arms were > twisted in Augusta nor by whom. Frankly, I've not pursued this since I > had more interest in the merits and failings of federalizing the HCTPR > properties that would be donated three years later. This was my > priority rather than the particulars that required such a solution. > Anything you can do to shed light on this matter I would appreciate. > > I can tell you that the HCTPR Minutes offer little guidance on most > matters relating to the evolution of the organization. They are best > described as abstracts, not detailed minutes that indicate the nature > of discussions that unfolded. As I've said in my biography, "There is > no indication in the HCTPR Minutes that members discussed--let alone > planned for--the federalizing of corporation holdings. > > One last bit of information. The Charles W. Eliot II Papers in the > Northeast Harbor Library contain a five-page letter from Dorr to S.A. > Eliot dated November 11, 1924, responding to a question from President > Eliot's son. It reports that several months before the 1913 January > Augusta gathering, Trustee properties were sufficiently extensive as to > endanger the HCTPR charter rights and freedom from taxation "unless > development of the tract in the public interest--more than its mere > holding--could be shown." You may want to give Bob Pyle a call and see > if he'll provide access to it. I can send you a copy if time permits. > The key issue here is that Dorr recognizes that the Trustees had to > evolve plans to become something more than a holding company, that > public access--and management--of these properties would determine > their fate in the long run. > > I Hope this is helpful. I look forward to hearing from you. I'll be > in Bar Harbor in late June. Perhaps we can meet? > > All the Best, > > Ron > > I'm delighted > > Quoting Peter Jenkins > : > > Ron Epp, > > I am doing a research project on the Hancock County Trustees of Public > > Reservations and the formation of what is now Acadia National Park. I am > > specifically trying to find any information regarding local opposition to the > > HCTPR and George B. Dorr's efforts to set aside land on Mount Desert > > Island. I https://webmail.myfairpoint.net/hwebmail/mail/message.php?index=310 6/3/2009 Page 4 of 4 > > have found that in 1913, Rep. Sherman of Eden introduced a bill in the Maine > > legislature that attempted to remove the tax exempt status for the > > lands "in the > > town of Eden" held by the Hancock County Trustees. Apparently Dorr > > defeated the > > bill with the help of John A. Peters. Now I want to know why Rep. > > Sherman tried > > to annul the Trustees tax exempt status and who might have pushed him to do > > this. Joshua Torrance at the Woodlawn Museum said that you might be > > able to help > > me with this question. Do you know much about this controversy? This > > research is > > a term project for a class in Public Lands at College of the > > Atlantic. The end > > of term is approaching quickly so I would greatly appreciate if you could get > > back to me soon. > > > > Best regards, > > > > Peter Jenkins > > College of the Atlantic > > 105 Eden Street > > Bar harbor, ME 04609 > > 802-735-4551 > > pjenkins@coa.edu > > > > > > > > Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. > 47 Pondview Drive > Merrimack, NH 03054 > (603) 424-6149 > eppster2@myfairpoint.net > > Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. 47 Pondview Drive Merrimack, NH 03054 (603) 424-6149 eppster2@myfairpoint.net Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. 47 Pondview Drive Merrimack, NH 03054 (603) 424-6149 eppster2@myfairpoint.net Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. 47 Pondview Drive Merrimack, NH 03054 (603) 424-6149 eppster2@myfairpoint.net https://webmail.myfairpoint.net/hwebmail/mail/message.php?index=310 6/3/2009 Page 1 of 3 Re: Acadia project: Response from Ron Epp From "Lucy Atkins" To Date Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:58:05 -0400 Ron, I apologize taking so embarrasingly long to get back to you! I've been flying around all summer doing a combination of working at summer camp and hiking in the Whites (in fact I'm about to leave tomorrow to hike the Presidential Range and north for ten days). I think your excuse was better when you said you took a long time to respond because you were writing a book! And I hope that endeavor is going well for you. Anyways, I want to thank you for your comments and especially the other resources. This may turn into a longer project than I expected once I get back to COA in the fall-if I have the energy to continue digging through things. Thanks also for clearing up the misunderstanding of the scope of your book. I'll look at the final draft of the our document with Adrianna (Peter has graduated!) when we're both at COA and rework a little of it to include that. And I'm sorry if the word "bias" came out sounding too harsh. I can definitely express it more articulately; what I was trying to get across was that Dorr's book is basically the main source that people go to for the history of Acadia and they need to realize that it is only one side of the story. Oh dear, I realize that I'm going backwards, and I forgot about your questions from the first email. You asked about the nature of the course that this project was for and how we divided up the work. The class was called "Our Public Lands: Past, Present, and Future" with Ken Cline and in it we essentially looked at the history of the different types of American public lands, the different uses and how they have changed over time, how they are currently governed, and then used our recently gained knowledge to prescribe future action (in a final paper). This project was to get us doing real historical research and to look into a topic close to home for us. Another group did the history of Schoodic Peninsula and especially how it became part of ANP, and a third group researched the history of the top of Cadillac Mtn and how its uses have changed over time. I was especially drawn to our topic on what locals thought about ANP because it had never really been researched before. As for Adrianna, Peter and I, we pretty much just met with Ken and made a huge brainstorm of everyone and everything we thought might be useful and then divided it up. Peter did a lot of emailing people (like you), Adrianna did a lot of the drudgery at the microfilm machine, and I interviewed people on the phone like Deb Dyer at the BH Historical Society and local historian Mark Honey. With the sheer time needed to get the work done, it definitely could not have been done alone but I think more than three people would mean too many different ideas about how to do things and would make the work more complicated. Overall I learned a TON about how to research and I think I'd like to do more in the future; despite how time consuming it is and how often it leads to dead ends, finding things is incredibly satisfying! Well, I hope you're having an excellent summer and not getting too much rain (we're getting too many "scattered thunderstorms" for my liking in MA). Take care, Lucy https://webmail.myfairpoint.net/hwebmail/mail/message.php?index=1364 8/6/2009