Fishing gear, bait pouch, net-woven from twine, with drawstring mouth to pull closed, to be filled with bait and hung inside lobster trap to attract lobsters
Description: Fishing gear, bait pouch, net-woven from twine, with drawstring mouth to pull closed, to be filled with bait and hung inside lobster trap to attract lobsters
Four small black and white photos and one tintype framed in a wood/glass frame. Bayview Farm owned and operated by Jim Crosby in modern times "The Red House" owned by Judi Towns Lim and Chong Lim, a.k.a. the Towns house. James C. Crosby and Cora Almeda (Pressey) Crosby are the couple in the tintype. Their son, Clarence, is shown in the photo with the barn. The houses seen in the background of the geese photo are "Haydy's house & Arno Stanley's" per donor. (See scans in 2000\photos\dorothy towns and note explaining images.)
Description: Four small black and white photos and one tintype framed in a wood/glass frame. Bayview Farm owned and operated by Jim Crosby in modern times "The Red House" owned by Judi Towns Lim and Chong Lim, a.k.a. the Towns house. James C. Crosby and Cora Almeda (Pressey) Crosby are the couple in the tintype. Their son, Clarence, is shown in the photo with the barn. The houses seen in the background of the geese photo are "Haydy's house & Arno Stanley's" per donor. (See scans in 2000\photos\dorothy towns and note explaining images.) [show more]
Document, "Boatbuilding During World War II, M.D.I., Ellsworth, Stonington, and Bluehill" by Ralph W. Stanley, 12 pages. Ralph was 12 years old on 7 Dec 1941, and gives his personal reminiscences of that period and the war effort. He mentions the Manset Boatyard, Henry Hinckley Co., Southwest Boat, and the Mount Desert Yacht Yard, all on MDI, the Webber's Cove Boat Yard in Bluehill, and the Stonington Deer Isle Yacht Yard. He lists many vessels built at those places, and throws in a few humorous anecdotes too. Ralph lists his sources at the end. (Document transcribed as .txt and saved as html.)
Description: Document, "Boatbuilding During World War II, M.D.I., Ellsworth, Stonington, and Bluehill" by Ralph W. Stanley, 12 pages. Ralph was 12 years old on 7 Dec 1941, and gives his personal reminiscences of that period and the war effort. He mentions the Manset Boatyard, Henry Hinckley Co., Southwest Boat, and the Mount Desert Yacht Yard, all on MDI, the Webber's Cove Boat Yard in Bluehill, and the Stonington Deer Isle Yacht Yard. He lists many vessels built at those places, and throws in a few humorous anecdotes too. Ralph lists his sources at the end. (Document transcribed as .txt and saved as html.) [show more]
Tool, lobster gauge, brass, used to determine whether a lobster is of legal size to be kept. From the lobster's eye socket notch to the end of its carapace, it must be no larger than 5" and no smaller than 3-3/16". This guage has those two dimensions built in
Description: Tool, lobster gauge, brass, used to determine whether a lobster is of legal size to be kept. From the lobster's eye socket notch to the end of its carapace, it must be no larger than 5" and no smaller than 3-3/16". This guage has those two dimensions built in
Description: Fishing gear, empty wooden frame for fishing handline, broken into two halves and just pushed together; branded "J. C. PIKE." on both halves
Fishing gear, buoy (lobster float), double plastic buoys on one plastic shaft, yellow with three vertical red stripes, branded with "7491" and also "8676"; the plastic shaft has been heated and bent to form a loop to which a swivel fitting is attached, which is then tied to a rope
Description: Fishing gear, buoy (lobster float), double plastic buoys on one plastic shaft, yellow with three vertical red stripes, branded with "7491" and also "8676"; the plastic shaft has been heated and bent to form a loop to which a swivel fitting is attached, which is then tied to a rope
Kitchen/Farm. Circular wooden sieve with metal screen, iron handle, and side hooks for winnowing beans from the husks. Gaile Colby recalls her aunt "winnowing in the wind."
Description: Kitchen/Farm. Circular wooden sieve with metal screen, iron handle, and side hooks for winnowing beans from the husks. Gaile Colby recalls her aunt "winnowing in the wind."
Fishing gear, large wood, rectangular, slatted box with handle - clam hod (clam basket) handmade out of parts previously painted in various colors: red, white, green. With small wooden box full of shells.
Description: Fishing gear, large wood, rectangular, slatted box with handle - clam hod (clam basket) handmade out of parts previously painted in various colors: red, white, green. With small wooden box full of shells.