| Revisiting Seal Harbor and Acadia National Park Contributor(s): Vandenbergh, Lydia (Author), Shettleworth Jr, Earl G. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0738538523 ISBN-13: 9780738538525 Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC) OUR PRICE: $19.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1997 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - New England (ct, Ma, Me, Nh, Ri, Vt) - Travel | United States - Northeast - New England (ct, Ma, Me, Nh, Ri, Vt) - Photography | Subjects & Themes - Historical |
| Dewey: 974 |
| Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing) |
| Physical Information: 0.43" H x 6.54" W x 9.22" (0.68 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Maine - Cultural Region - New England |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Seal Harbor and Acadia National Park are areas rich with history and natural beauty. Several hundred photographs, taken by Seal Harbor's original residents, inspired this pictorial history of the well-known resort and surrounding Acadia National Park. A perusal through Revisiting Seal Harbor and Acadia National Park will reveal to the reader the natural beauty of the area, through views that attracted early rusticators and created such dedication from the island's summer and winter residents that Acadia National Park was born. The pages within trace the community's history, from its humble beginnings as a small fishing hamlet through its metamorphosis into a Victorian-era summer resort, and on through the park's development, an economic boon for the island's residents. From images of a time filled with sweeping Victorian dresses, grand yachts, and wildwood hikes, to accounts of the area's prosperity in the 1910s and 1920s when the area had become synonymous with the Rockefeller and Ford names, Revisiting Seal Harbor and Acadia National Park invites the reader to take a lingering look into the lives of early islanders and summer visitors. |
Contributor Bio(s): Vandenbergh, Lydia: - Lydia Bodman Vandenbergh is a free-lance researcher and descendent of one of the early cottagers in Seal Harbor. Together with Earle G. Shettleworth Jr., director of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission, they have drawn from newspaper records, historic accounts, published works, and interviews with residents to bring this engaging visual history to life. |