Introduction

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In This Issue

Family History
New Maine History DVDs
Town History
Vital Records

Family History

A history of George Harris Hinckley (1886-1977) and Florence Adeline Pearson Hinckly (1892-1972) of South Portland, Maine - Branson, Alice M. M. Hinckley

Publisher: self-published
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2009
ISBN-13: 0000000000000

A family history of the Hinckley Family.

Briggs - Newton, Beverly Norton

Publisher: self-published
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2008
ISBN-13: 0000000000000

A genealogy of the Briggs Family.

New Maine History DVDs

Acadia Always: the Story of Acadia National Park - Jeff Dobbs

Publisher: Jeff Dobbs Productions
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2009
UPC: 9786111471052
ISBN-10: 6111471058

DVD

Narrated by Jack Perkins (host of A & E's Biography series), this is a brand new look at one of America's favorite national parks. An hour long, it introduces both the people responsible for the park's creation, as well as those charged with its preservation.

River Run & Log Jam - Northeast Historic Film

Publisher: Northeast Historic Film
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2009
UPC: 9787933130059
ISBN-10: 7933130054

DVD

This DVD contains two films: River Run and Log Jam offering two different perspectives on Spring log drives during 1951 and 1952 down the Machias River.

Riding the Maine Two Footers - Gus Pratt

Publisher: Preservation Media
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: c2007-2009
UPC: 9780000000002
ISBN-10: 0000000000

DVD

At the age of 16, Earl "Gus" Pratt took a 16mm camera and captured the final days of Maine's narrow gauge railroad. Volume I takes place in 1935 and includes footage of the scrapping of the Sandy river & Rangeley Lakes Railroad's Phillips and Strong, ME yards, plus the Wiscasset yards of the Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway taken after they were abandoned. Volume II includes scenes shot in 1938 in western Maine on the Bridgton & Harrison Railroad, and in 1947, capturing the first days of the Edaville Railroad.

Town History

Fort Kent, (ME) - Daigle, Laurel J.

Publisher: Arcadia Pub
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/15/2009
ISBN-13: 9780738563831
ISBN-10: 0738563838

A history in images of Fort Kent, ME. (Part of the Images of America series).

Ogunquit - Severson, kathryn M.

Publisher: Arcadia Pub
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/13/2009
ISBN-13: 9780738565354
ISBN-10: 0738565350

A story in images of Ogunquit, ME showing photos of the same areas "then" and "now."

Monhegan Island - Sullivan, Margot

Publisher: Arcadia Pub.
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/11/2009
ISBN-13: 9780738564654
ISBN-10: 0738564656

A history in photographs of Monhegan Island, ME. (Part of the Images of America series).

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Vital Records

Census Records of Cranberry Isles and the Towns of Mount Desert Island volume 3: 1860 - Ed. by Thomas F. Vining

Publisher: V. F. Thomas Co.
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 2009
ISBN-13: 0000000000000

Census records of 1860 for the towns of Cranberry Isles, Eden, Mount Desert, Mount Desert Rock and Tremont.