From collection Mount Desert Island Historical Society - Exhibits
Exhibit Files: 1997, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006
1997: Charles W. Eliot and John Gilley: Good Hope for Our Country. Plan of exhibit, list of artifacts & photographs, bibliography, "John Gilley and Charles W. Eliot: Good Hope for Our Country," by Jaylene B. Roths (ms.), "The Gilley Family of Mt. Desert," by William Otis Sawtelle, (ms), and other notes. 1997: From Boarding House to Grand Hotel: The Origins of Tourism on Mount Desert Island. Background notes for exhibit, list of photographs and other items. 2000: Victorian Dining on Mount Desert Island. Photographs of exhibit; artifact list; background notes. Many items loaned for exhibit; excerpts from rules of dining, how to set tables, cookbooks, etc. 2001: Stitch in Time," at Somesville Museum: Weaving, Woolen Mill, Spinning, Sewing, Quilting, 2002: "I Came to this Place: The Story of the Village of Somesville." A new permanent exhibit at the Somesville Museum. 2004: Somesville Museum. Many of same objects and info. as in 2002 exhibit, above. 2005: Somesville Museum, "Arrival of Rusticators in 1855, Their Adventures, and Stories of the Local Residents They Met." Tracy Party, poem by Theodore Winthrop. 2006: Handicrafts Exhibit, notes from Smallidge. Also notes about Winter Industries, Getting By in Winter or Hard Times, What's Here to do After Summer People go home?