Acadea National Park - Website Revisions of DORR Bio. with Marie yarborough. 2019 George B Dorr (U.S. National Park Service) 7/3/2019 National Park Service (1) George B Dorr Acadia National Park (lacad/) Dorr snowshoeing through a winter wonderland in Acadia. NDSArchives 7/3/2019 George B Dorr (U.S. National Park Service) Quick Facts SIGNIFICANCE: Founder of Acadia PLACE OF BIRTH: Boston, MA DATE OF BIRTH: December 29, 1853 PLACE OF DEATH: Bar Harbor, ME DATE OF DEATH: August 5, 1944 George Bucknam Dorr, (December 29, 1853-August 5, 1944) known as the father of Acadia National Park, spent most of his adult life bringing the park into being, caring for the park, and expanding it. Charles W. Eliot might have been the man who called the first meeting of what would become the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations in 1901, but it was Dorr's vision and passion that ensured lands would be set aside for preservation and protection for future generations. History Dorr was a private citizen whose life covered the last half of the 1800s and the first half of the 1900s. He came from privilege, the son of affluent Bostonians. He inherited fortunes from both his parents. He attended Harvard University and traveled widely in Europe with his parents. He was a gentleman scholar and lover of nature who first visited Mount Desert Island in 1868 on a vacation with his parents and made the decision to make the island his primary home. The remains of the family residence, Old Farm, at Compass Harbor in Bar Harbor, are part of Acadia National Park today. He never married; instead he focused his time, energy, and intellect on preserving the natural beauty of his beloved island. Over four decades he worked tirelessly to acquire tracts of land for protection. He donated scores of parcels of his own land and persuaded others to donate land or gift funds. Collecting Land This project was never easy or straightforward. Challenges were frequent. In early 1913 while at home in Boston, hoping to enjoy a peaceful winter social season there, he received word that some in the Maine state legislature were determined to revoke the nonprofit status of the Trustees. He immediately set out for Augusta, Maine, and spent days successfully fighting the measure. He realized at that time, however, that the lands he'd fought so hard to acquire needed the greater protection of the federal government, and he began a new drive to secure that protection. Soon he was on his way to Washington, meeting with powerful and influential friends there. He would make many trips armed with maps and deeds and titles; he would provide more and more information to the federal bureaucracy and deal with political stumbling blocks. Finally in 1916, President Woodrow Wilson created Sieur de Monts National Monument. This process had taken more than two years, but with great persistence, and the help of influential friends, Dorr made it happen. While the Trustees would have preferred national park status, Dorr chose to have Wilson sign off on the national monument rather than waiting for Congress to act on the national park. With the establishment of the National Park Service in 1916, Acadia was in line for designation as a national park. It was not until 1919 that Lafayette National Park came into being. 7/3/2019 George B Dorr (U.S. National Park Service) George Dorr built the spring house at Sieur de Monts in 1909 and carved "The Sweet Waters of Acadia" on a nearby rock. Today, this location has come to symbolize the enthusiasm and contributions of Dorr and other early-20th-century citizens in the creation and preservation of these lands. Dorr was ever vigilant that anything done in the park would be of the highest quality and not mar the incredible beauty and uniqueness of the area. In 1913, John D. Rockefeller Jr. began construction of a carriage road system on private land that was developed and expanded as public land with Dorr's support. Later Life His later years would certainly bring satisfaction but also trials and difficulties. He loved to hike and walked all over the island. He swam in Frenchman Bay almost daily, even having to break ice along the edges to do so. He had a heart attack in 1934 while enjoying his morning swim and was told he had six months to live (he lived ten more years). Chronic visual difficulties recurred throughout his life until he lost his sight in his final years. Dorr always believed his personal fortune could absorb purchasing land on behalf of the park forever, but this was not the case. At the onset, he declined any salary except for one dollar a month as the first custodian of the national monument, but by the time the park became Acadia in 1929, he gladly accepted a regular salary. Despite the income from his highly successful Mount Desert Nurseries, he depleted his inheritance in the decade prior to the inauguration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The federally funded social programs of the President enabled the park to rapidly develop in ways that eclipsed what had been accomplished in the first decade of the park. Dorr's Old Farm estate was accepted a park property one month before the attack on Pearl Harbor. The park superintendent never retired and continued working with Mr. Rockefeller on land aquisition projects until August 5, 1944 when the heart that was supposed to have given out ten years earlier finaly stopped. The National Park Service and the executors of his estate renamed the mountain overshadowing Sieur de Monts Spring and a mounument at the base of Dorr Mountain honors his memory. Saved to future generations as it has been to us, in the wild primeval beauty of the nature it exhibits, of ancient rocks and still more ancient sea, with infinite detail of life and landscape interest between, the spirit and mind of man will surely find in it in the years and centuries to come an inspiration and a means of growth as essential to them ever and anon as are fresh air and sunshine to the body. - George B. Dorr Tags: Acadia (/media/article-search.htm?q=Acadia) Acadia National Park (/media/article-search.htm?q=Acadia National Park) George B Dorr (/media/article-search.htm?q=GeorgeB Dorr) 7/3/2019 George B Dorr (U.S. National Park Service) Dorr /media/article-search.htm?q=Dorr) Lafayette National Park (/media/article-search.htm?q=Lafayette National Park) Sieur de Monts (/media/article-search.htm?q=Sieur de Monts) Sieur de Monts National Monument (/media/article-search.htm?q=Sieur de Monts National Monument) RELATED ARTICLES Search All Articles... Go! 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Website article #2: Profession: Conservationist Education: Harvard University Place of Birth: Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts Place of Death: Bar Harbor, Maine Date of Death: 1944 Association with Landscape: Founder and first Superintendent of Lafayette (now Acadia) National Park Biographical Sketch Born in 1853 to Charles Hazen and Mary Gray Ward Dorr of Boston, George Bucknam Dorr was the heir to a New England textile fortune. Educated at Harvard University, this scholar, horticulturist, and conservationist was the father of Acadia National Park. He spent the last half of his life entirely engaged in the establishment, care, and expansion of the park, devoting not only his time but his personal financial assets. The Dorr family first visited Bar Harbor in 1868. So moved by the scenic beauty of the island, Charles Dorr purchased an oceanfront lot at Compass Harbor. The family returned in 1878 to design, construct, and landscape their "Oldfarm" residence. For the next two decades, the tall, lanky, and walrus-moustached George Dorr split his time between his Commonwealth Avenue residence in Boston and summers at Oldfarm where he established the Mount Desert Nurseries to address the landscaping needs associated with the rapid development of private properties on the island. In the summer of 1901, Charles W. Eliot, president of Harvard University and resident of Northeast Harbor, wrote Dorr and others to consider establishing a committee "to hold reservations at points of interest on this Island, for the perpetual use of the public." The outgrowth of this committee was the 1903 charter of the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations, modelled on the Massachusetts land trust established in 1891 by Eliot's son, landscape architect Charles Eliot. As a Hancock County trustee incorporator and First Vice President, Dorr negotiated most of the land transfers. [Photo: George Dorr posing at the carved rock next to the spring canopy, C. 1918. A gravel path leads to the Emery Path, one of six memorial trails built at Sieur de Monts Spring in the 1910s]. Fascinated with the natural springs encountered in Europe and the eastern United States, in 1909, Dorr purchased a meadow spring adjacent to what is now known as Dorr Mountain. Anticipating the development of public lands, atop the spring architect Fred Savage designed an octagonal-shaped canopy structure in the Italian Renaissance Revival style. Today, Sieur de Monts Spring has come to symbolize the persistent contributions of Dorr and other conservation-minded citizens in the creation and preservation of Acadia National Park. By 1914 Dorr had accumulated nearly five thousand acres of public Trustee land. Overcoming land title issues, he lobbied the federal government to designate these largely contiguous lands as a national park, later suggesting national monument status as a more direct process since it required only presidential approval. In 1916, Woodrow Wilson authorized Sieur de Monts National Monument several weeks prior to the establishment of the National Park Service. As custodian of the new monument, Dorr and the park service labored to secure congressional and executive approval for national park status. Dorr's status as monument custodian was elevated to park superintendent in 1919 when the monument became Lafayette National Park, the first national park least of the Mississippi River (renamed Acadia National Park in 1929). Notably, Dorr's Sieur de Monts Spring parcel and lands in the adjacent Great Meadow were not included in the 1916 monument boundaries. In a move aimed at maintaining control over their development, Dorr instead transferred these lands to his Wild Gardens of Acadia Corporation for donation to the park at a later date. Within the area, Dorr created wild garden exhibits for public appreciation. Throughout his tenure (1916-1944), Dorr worked very closely with John D. Rockefeller Jr. in developing his extensive carriage and motor road systems. The New Deal programs of President Franklin D. Roosevelt provided over nine years a myriad of improvements because of the efforts of the Civilian Conversation Corps. A lifelong bachelor, toward the end of his life Dorr published Acadia National Park: Its Origin and Background and despite the ravages of blindness he worked tirelessly for federal approval of including Oldfarm within the boundaries of Acadia National Park. He died in Storm Beach Cottage on the Oldfarm estate which he and his father had built in 1878 prior to the final design of the mansion. WEBSITE ARTICLE #1: PLACE OF BIRTH: Jamaica Plain, MA DATE OF BIRTH: December 29, 1853 PLACE OF DEATH: Bar Harbor, ME DATE OF DEATH: August 5, 1944 George Bucknam Dorr, (December 29, 1853-August 5, 1944) known as the father of Acadia National Park, spent most of his adult life bringing the park into being, caring for the park, and expanding it. Building on the insights of his son, landscape architect Charles Eliot, Harvard University president Charles William Eliot was the visionary who called the first meeting of what would become the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations in 1901, the second land trust to be established in the world. Yet it was Dorr's passion and enduring leadership that ensured lands would be set aside for preservation and protection for future generations. History Dorr was a private citizen whose life covered the last half of the 1800s and the first half of the 1900s. He came from privilege, the son of affluent Bostonians who eventually inherited fortunes from his parents. He graduated in 1874 from Harvard University and traveled widely in Europe with his parents. A gentleman scholar and lover of nature who first visited Mount Desert Island in 1868, by 1880 the Dorr family residence on one hundred acres was completed. The remains of the family residence, Oldfarm, at Compass Harbor in Bar Harbor, are part of Acadia National Park today. Dorr never married; instead he focused his time, energy, and intellect on preserving the natural beauty of his beloved island. Over four decades he worked tirelessly to acquire tracts of land for protection. He donated hundreds of parcels of his own land holdings to the federal government and persuaded others to donate land or gift funds to the Trustees. Acquiring Land This land trust project was never easy or straightforward. Challenges were frequent. In early 1913 while at home in Boston, hoping to enjoy a peaceful winter social season there, he received word that some in the Maine state legislature were determined to revoke the nonprofit status of the Trustees. Dorr immediately set out for Augusta, Maine, and spent days successfully fighting the measure. He realized at that time, however, that the lands he'd fought so hard to acquire needed the greater protection of the federal government, and he began a new drive to secure that protection. Despite the demands of his horticultural business, the Mount Desert Nurseries, Dorr went to Washington, meeting with powerful and influential friends there. He would make many trips armed with maps and deeds and titles; he would provide more and more information to the federal bureaucracy and struggle successfully with political stumbling blocks. Finally July 8, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson established Sieur de Monts National Monument. While the Trustees would have preferred national park status, Dorr chose to have Wilson sign off on the national monument as the threat of U.S. entry into the World War loomed large. With the establishment of the National Park Service on August 25, 1916, Acadia was a priority for designation as a national park. On February 26, 1919 Congress approved the establishment of Lafayette National Park (in 1929 renamed Acadia). Fascinated by natural springs, George B. Dorr built a spring house at Sieur de Monts in 1909 and carved "The Sweet Waters of Acadia" on a nearby rock. Today, this location has come to symbolize the enthusiasm and contributions of Dorr and other early-20th-century citizens in the creation and preservation of these lands. Dorr was ever vigilant that anything done in the park would be of the highest quality and not mar the incredible beauty and uniqueness of the area. In 1913, John D. Rockefeller Jr. purchased property nearby in Seal Harbor and began construction of a carriage road system on private land, later developed and expanded as public land with Dorr's support and permission from the Trustees. Later Life His later years would certainly bring satisfaction but also trials and difficulties. Throughout his life, Dorr hiked Europe, the Canadian Rockies, the Sierra Nevada mountains, and the Northeast. He swam in Frenchman Bay almost daily, even having to break ice along the shoreline to do SO. He had a heart attack in 1934 while enjoying his morning swim and was told he had six months to live (he lived ten more years). Chronic visual difficulties recurred throughout his life until Dorr lost his sight in his final years. By the time the park came into being, Dorr had nearly exhausted his personal fortune. At the onset, he declined any salary except for one dollar a month as the first custodian of the national monument, but by the time the park became Acadia in 1929, he gladly accepted a regular salary. Despite the income from his highly successful Mount Desert Nurseries, he depleted his inheritance in the decade prior to the inauguration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The federally funded social programs of the President enabled the park to rapidly develop in ways that eclipsed what had been accomplished in the first decade of the park. After three years of negotiation, Dorr's Oldfarm estate was finally accepted by the federal government as a park property one month before the attack on Pearl Harbor. The park superintendent never retired and continued partnering with Mr. Rockefeller on land aquisition projects until August 5, 1944 when the heart that was supposed to have given out ten years earlier finaly stopped. The National Park Service renamed the mountain overshadowing Sieur de Monts Spring as Dorr Mountain, and the executors of his estate world with the park service to install a mounument at the base of Dorr Mountain to honor his memory. Saved to future generations as it has been to us, in the wild primeval beauty of the nature it exhibits, of ancient rocks and still more ancient sea, with infinite detail of life and landscape interest between, the spirit and mind of man will surely find in it in the years and centuries to come an inspiration and a means of growth as essential to them ever and anon as are fresh air and sunshine to the body. - George B. Dorr Dated original June 2019 WEBSITE ARTICLE #1: PLACE OF BIRTH: Boston, MA DATE OF BIRTH: December 29, 1853 PLACE OF DEATH: Bar Harbor, ME DATE OF DEATH: August 5, 1944 George Bucknam Dorr, (December 29, 1853-August 5, 1944) known as the father of Acadia National Park, spent most of his adult life bringing the park into being, caring for the park, and expanding it. Charles W. Eliot might have been the man who called the first meeting of what would become the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations in 1901, but it was Dorr's vision and passion that ensured lands would be set aside for preservation and protection for future generations. History Dorr was a private citizen whose life covered the last half of the 1800s and the first half of the 1900s. He came from privilege, the son of affluent Bostonians. He inherited fortunes from both his parents. He attended Harvard University and traveled widely in Europe with his parents. He was a gentleman scholar and lover of nature who first visited Mount Desert Island in 1868 on a vacation with his parents and made the decision to make the island his primary home. The remains of the family residence, Old Farm, at Compass Harbor in Bar Harbor, are part of Acadia National Park today. He never married; instead he focused his time, energy, and intellect on preserving the natural beauty of his beloved island. Over four decades he worked tirelessly to acquire tracts of land for protection. He donated scores of parcels of his own land and persuaded others to donate land or gift funds. Collecting Land This project was never easy or straightforward. Challenges were frequent. In early 1913 while at home in Boston, hoping to enjoy a peaceful winter social season there, he received word that some in the Maine state legislature were determined to revoke the nonprofit status of the Trustees. He immediately set out for Augusta, Maine, and spent days successfully fighting the measure. He realized at that time, however, that the lands he'd fought so hard to acquire needed the greater protection of the federal government, and he began a new drive to secure that protection. Soon he was on his way to Washington, meeting with powerful and influential friends there. He would make many trips armed with maps and deeds and titles; he would provide more and more information to the federal bureaucracy and deal with political stumbling blocks. Finally in 1916, President Woodrow Wilson created Sieur de Monts National Monument. This process had taken more than two years, but with great persistence, and the help of influential friends, Dorr made it happen. While the Trustees would have preferred national park status, Dorr chose to have Wilson sign off on the national monument rather than waiting for Congress to act on the national park. With the establishment of the National Park Service in 1916, Acadia was in line for designation as a national park. It was not until 1919 that Lafayette National Park came into being. George Dorr built the spring house at Sieur de Monts in 1909 and carved "The Sweet Waters of Acadia" on a nearby rock. Today, this location has come to symbolize the enthusiasm and contributions of Dorr and other early-20th-century citizens in the creation and preservation of these lands. Dorr was ever vigilant that anything done in the park would be of the highest quality and not mar the incredible beauty and uniqueness of the area. In 1913, John D. Rockefeller Jr. began construction of a carriage road system on private land that was developed and expanded as public land with Dorr's support. Later Life His later years would certainly bring satisfaction but also trials and difficulties. He loved to hike and walked all over the island. He swam in Frenchman Bay almost daily, even having to break ice along the edges to do SO. He had a heart attack in 1934 while enjoying his morning swim and was told he had six months to live (he lived ten more years). Chronic visual difficulties recurred throughout his life until he lost his sight in his final years. Dorr always believed his personal fortune could absorb purchasing land on behalf of the park forever, but this was not the case. At the onset, he declined any salary except for one dollar a month as the first custodian of the national monument, but by the time the park became Acadia in 1929, he gladly accepted a regular salary. Despite the income from his highly successful Mount Desert Nurseries, he depleted his inheritance in the decade prior to the inauguration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The federally funded social programs of the President enabled the park to rapidly develop in ways that eclipsed what had been accomplished in the first decade of the park. Dorr's Old Farm estate was accepted a park property one month before the attack on Pearl Harbor. The park superintendent never retired and continued working with Mr. Rockefeller on land aquisition projects until August 5, 1944 when the heart that was supposed to have given out ten years earlier finaly stopped. The National Park Service and the executors of his estate renamed the mountain overshadowing Sieur de Monts Spring and a mounument at the base of Dorr Mountain honors his memory. Saved to future generations as it has been to us, in the wild primeval beauty of the nature it exhibits, of ancient rocks and still more ancient sea, with infinite detail of life and landscape interest between, the spirit and mind of man will surely find in it in the years and centuries to come an inspiration and a means of growth as essential to them ever and anon as are fresh air and sunshine to the body. - George B. Dorr Website article #2: Profession: Conservationist Education: Harvard University Place of Birth: Massachusetts Place of Death: Bar Harbor, Maine Date of Death: 1944 Association with Landscape: Founder and first Superintendent of Lafayette (now Acadia) National Park Biographical Sketch Born to Charles F. and Mary Dorr of Boston, George B. Dorr was the heir to a New England textile fortune on his mother's side. Educated at Harvard University, he has been characterized as a gentleman scholar and conservationist. Known as the father of Acadia National Park, he spent most his adult life working in support of the establishment, care, and expansion of the park, devoting not only his time but much of his personal wealth. Charles F. Dorr and his two sons first visited Bar Harbor in 1868. At that time, Charles F. Dorr purchased the oceanfront lot at Compass Harbor. The family returned in 1878 to design, construct, and landscape their "Oldfarm" residence. In the summer of 1901, Charles W. Eliot, president of Harvard University and resident of Northeast Harbor, wrote to forty-eight year old Dorr requesting his assistance in establishing a committee "to hold reservations at points of interest on this Island, for the perpetual use of the public." The outgrowth of this committee was the 1903 charter of the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations. The Trustees acquired land to preserve the scenic qualities of Mount Desert Island. As an incorporator and as the Trustees' first Vice President, Dorr negotiated many of these transfers himself. George Dorr posing at the carved rock next to the spring canopy, C. 1918. A gravel path leads to the Emery Path, one of six memorial trails built at Sieur de Monts Spring in the 1910s. In 1909, Dorr purchased a small spring in a meadow to the northeast of Cadillac Mountain. Atop the spring, architect Fred Savage designed an octagonal-shaped canopy structure in the Italian Renaissance Revival style. In 1914, Dorr began to lobby the federal government to designate over 5,000 acres of land controlled by the Trustees a national park, later suggesting a national monument. Dorr's spring area was a hub for the future park. In 1916, Woodrow Wilson authorized Sieur de Monts National Monument, naming Dorr custodian. In 1919, the monument became Lafayette National Park, the first national park east of the Mississippi River (renamed Acadia National Park in 1929). Notably, Dorr's Sieur de Monts Spring parcel and lands in the adjacent Great Meadow were not included in the monument's 1916 boundaries. In a move aimed at maintaining control over their development, Dorr instead transferred these lands to his Wild Gardens of Acadia Corporation for donation to the park at a later date. Within the area, Dorr created wild garden exhibits for public viewing. Throughout his tenure as custodian and superintendent, Dorr worked closely with John D. Rockefeller Jr. when he built his carriage road and motor road systems, and with the Civilian Conversation Corps as they made myriad improvements to the park. A lifelong bachelor, Dorr was tall and gaunt with a walrus moustache. By the end of his life he was largely blind and impoverished, living in the caretaker's cottage at "Old Farm." Today, Sieur de Monts Spring has come to symbolize the enthusiasm and contributions of Dorr and other conservation-minded citizens in the creation and preservation of Acadia National Park. XFINITY Connect Page 1 of 1 XFINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.ne + Font Size : Sieur de Monts Publications From : Ronald & Elizabeth Epp Sun, Nov 24, 2013 02:16 PM Subject : Sieur de Monts Publications To : Rebecca Cole-Will Cc : Bill Horner , Jack Russell Becky, Thank you for informing me of the receptiveness of the park to accepting my collections. We'll work on a timetable in 2014 but for the moment I am delighted that you will "be applying for project funds to support the transfer of your collection, to ensure that it is carefully housed and cataloged." I located on the www.nps.gov/history one (# IV) of the 23 Sieur de Monts Publications. Is there a plan to make available online the full series? After extensive research, I've assembled in a notebook hard copies of all but three of the 23 scheduled for publication; I suspect that the others may never have been published. These publications are the best published evidence historians have of the crucial period in park history between 1913 and 1919. It would be wonderful if those celebrating the park centennial could point to the new availability of these little known documents. If it is part of your strategy to make as many of these available online as possible, I would be willing to share about a dozen of my publications that you don't have in the archives. Ron Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. 532 Sassafras Dr. Lebanon, PA 17042 717-272-0801 eppster2@comcast.net http://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=163850&tz=America/New_York&xim=1 11/24/2013 8/14/2019 NPGallery Search Discover and Explore Digital Assets () A comprehensive library of NPS images, video, audio, maps, presentations, documents and more. Enter keyword or phrase Search all States Search all Parks Q Show More Fields FEATURED DIGITAL ARCHIVES BUR Air Webcams National Register San Fran. Maritime Se (/AIRWEBCAMS) (/NRHP) (/SAFR) (/SE XFINITY Connect Connect eppster2@comcast.net + Font Size Re: Ron Epp From : Marie Yarborough Tue, Nov 29, 2016 10:05 AM Subject : Re: Ron Epp To : Ronald Epp Hi Ron, Hope you had a relaxing holiday! I have asked my assistant to try to burn the CD this week and get it in the mail to you. We may have to put the images on a thumb drive as they are so big. I'll let you know! I do remember the forthcoming donation--with excitement! Especially the Chapman/Peters archives, wow. A few things we need to work out-- maybe best discussed on the phone or better yet in person if you plan to be up anytime soon. PROCESSING! 1. best to give whole collection at once, if at all possible 2. with whole collection, we can process it. But, can't process partially-unless you have some distinct series or that can come our way--a little more difficult but do-able. Once it is here, and if it is unprocessed, NPS standard preclude us from allowing unprocessed collections to accessed by researchers. 3. Or, is it processed? With a finding aid :-) that would be grand. Let me know what you think. You have a huge year ahead of you--my goodness! And, on the tails of the book/centennial year? All the best, Marie On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 10:00 PM, Ronald Epp wrote: Greetings Marie et. al., Thanks for the offer to put the requested digital files on CD and mail them to me. Please put that on your working agenda. Another item that you should figure into your calculations is a topic we've discussed repeatedly. My gifting research documents for the Dorr biography to Sawtelle. I've got a ten year old letter from Sheridan agreeing to this but have not discussed it with Supt. Schneider. I'd like to begin the delivery process next Spring and Becky may recall that I have in excess of 40 linear feet but I want to keep for the next several years at least half of that for my own research purposes. Deciding what to give up now and what to retain is a complicated matter. Transporting it to MDI is yet another challenge. Of course you probably think that the publication of Creating Acadia National Park is the cause but actually I am now trying to arrange for 2017 the rental of an apartment outside Hartford which may become my new residence, cutting my ties with Pennsylvania. A BIG decision fraught with many complexities but one strong motivation. This is a significant downsizing for me and so I approach you early in this process to ensure that this unique documentation---especially from the Doug Chapman and Judge John A. Peters legal archives--is preserved. Your thoughts? Happy Thanksgiving! Ronald Epp From: "Marie Yarborough" To: "Ronald Epp" Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2016 10:40:31 AM Subject: Re: Ron Epp Hi Ron, sorry to get back to you late, I was out of the office last week on a work retreat. I can send you the digital files on a CD. I'm running up against some project deadlines this week before heading out for thanksgiving but can get to it after that for sure. Hope all is well, Marie On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 2:11 PM, Ronald Epp wrote: Hi Marie, Kate O'Brien and I were talking about you last Wednesday when I gave my final (of seventeen) talk for 2016 at the Maine Historical Society. Their exhibit was superb and I was especially taken by the park master plan images that Kate said you had digitized and she then enlarged for a display of panels (24 by 36 inches). She mentioned that you might share the digital versions if I approached you. Possible? But she took my enthusiasm a step further and gave me one on the trails on the western half of the island which now hangs in my sunroom. XFINITY Connect alliam Otis Sawtelle Collections & Research Center Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine For research questions or appointments visit: http://www.nps.gov/acad/learn/historyculture/collections.htm www.nps.gov/acad www.facebook.com/AcadiaNPS https://twitter.com/AcadiaNPS Acadia National Park 20 McFarland Hill Drive or POB 177 Bar Harbor, ME 04609 207.288.8729 (ph) 207.288.8813 (f) In the office Tues, Wed, Thurs 2 16 NationalParkService. CENTENNIAL Marie C. Yarborough Curator Cultural Resources & Interpretation Liaison William Otis Sawtelle Collections & Research Center Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine For research questions or appointments visit: http://www.nps.gov/acad/learn/historyculture/collections.htm www.nps.gov/acad www.facebook.com/AcadiaNPS https://twitter.com/AcadiaNPS Acadia National Park 20 McFarland Hill Drive or POB 177 Bar Harbor, ME 04609 207.288.8729 (ph) 207.288.8813 (f) In the office Tues, Wed, Thurs 2 16 NationalPark Service. CENTENNIAL 12/1/2016 XFINITY Connect FINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.net + Font Size - Re: Ron Epp From : Marie Yarborough Thu, Dec 01, 2016 03:56 PM Subject : Re: Ron Epp To : Ronald Epp Sounds good Ron. Mull and we can talk. Just to clarify, it's not out of the question to take the collection in two parts--it's just my preference to keep it together until you are fully ready so we can maintain the intellectual integrity of the collection. You have worked too hard and for too long to jeopardize that. Having said that I think that depends a lot on how you have it organized and whether or not you believe that there are cohesive series that may be parted potentially for years. You are the content expert on the collection--so you know the best organization of it. I would obviously defer to you on that :-) Things I am wondering: Of the 40 linear feet, what number were you thinking to donate in the spring versus what number would you retain? How are the files stored & organized currently? I'm always amazed at your ability to quickly and efficiently locate sources for me from your collection so I KNOW that it is well organized, but is it at the item level? Folder level? What is the overarching mechanism you have used to organize? By repository? Milestone? Theme? Best, Marie On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 12:42 PM, Ronald Epp wrote: Marie, Thanks, I look forward to receiving the thumb drive. Your comments about my gifting the Dorr research materials I've taken seriously. I completely understand your interest in acquiring at one time the whole of what I have to offer. I also must take into account issues of access that are more restrictive there than at other depositories. I'll be mulling this over the winter. Let us discuss this again when I next visit and see if we can develop together a memorandum of understanding. Ron From: "Marie Yarborough" To: "Ronald Epp" Sent: Thursday, December 1, 2016 12:11:56 PM Subject: Re: Ron Epp Hi Ron, I'm about to put in the mail to you a thumb drive with all the images. They are not labeled--just scanned. It was way too much for CDs!! Best, Marie On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Yarborough, Marie wrote: Hi Ron, Hope you had a relaxing holiday! I have asked my assistant to try to burn the CD this week and get it in the mail to you. We may have to put the images on a thumb drive as they are so big. I'll let you know! I do remember the forthcoming donation--with excitement! Especially the Chapman/Peters archives, wow. A few things we need to work out--maybe best discussed on the phone or better yet in person if you plan to be up anytime soon. PROCESSING! 1. best to give whole collection at once, if at all possible 2. with whole collection, we can process it. But, can't process partially--unless you have some distinct series or that can come our way--a little more difficult but do-able. Once it is here, and if it is unprocessed, NPS standard preclude us from allowing unprocessed collections to accessed by researchers. 12/5/2016 XFINITY Connect XFI/ITY Connect eppster2@comcast.net + Font Size - Re: Ron Epp's collections From : Ronald Epp Mon, Dec 05, 2016 09:07 PM Subject : Re: Ron Epp's collections To : Marie Yarborough Hi Marie, Just to let you know that the thumb drive arrived safely today. I'll take a look at its contents later this week. Regarding my research materials. The files were arranged from the beginning in several categories, eaach assigned a file cabinet: 1. Chronology of documents by year from 1800-1950; 2. Biographical files alphabetically developed; 3. Alphabetized thematic files relative to Dorr's life; 4. repository files; (5) secondary literature photocopies; (6) Dorr genealogical files; (7) paper and digital drafts of Creating Acadia National Park; (8) Epp papers delivered and published on ANP/NPS park history. Series 1 contains the largest proportion of copies of primary resources and where intermixed are archival resources unavailable on MDI. It is also the series that I consult most frequently. I hope that this gives you a sense of how I've organized materials; you should also be aware that there is much duplication in order to facilitate cross-referencing. Document sources are (almost) always identified. Does any of this prove helpful? Of course here is no finding for this is a collection still serving my research purposes. The only processing is that done by this librarian in my efforts to keep the expanding collections serviceable to the completion of the book and derivative projects. Frankly, what haunts me is the fear that despite our planning, a health crisis might befall me and that my estate plans (undergoing revision) may not be realized. After all, I'm searching for the best site and debating whether the collection--including several hundred books--should be kept together or fragmented--where -- might portions best support other scholarly endeavors. Next steps? Ronald From: "Marie Yarborough" To: "Ronald Epp" Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2016 10:05:39 AM Subject: Re: Ron Epp Hi Ron, Hope you had a relaxing holiday! I have asked my assistant to try to burn the CD this week and get it in the mail to you. We may have to put the images on a thumb drive as they are so big. I'll let you know! I do remember the forthcoming donation--with excitement! Especially the Chapman/Peters archives, wow. A few things we need to work out-- maybe best discussed on the phone or better yet in person if you plan to be up anytime soon. PROCESSING! 1. best to give whole collection at once, if at all possible 2. with whole collection, we can process it. But, can't process partially--unless you have some distinct series or that can come our way--a little more difficult but do-able. Once it is here, and if it is unprocessed, NPS standard preclude us from allowing unprocessed collections to accessed by researchers. 10/8/2016 XFINITY Connect XFINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.net + Font Size IOUs! From : Marie Yarborough Thu, Oct 06, 2016 09:50 AM 3 attachments Subject : IOUs! To : Ronald Epp Ron, Please find attached the excel spreadsheet we used to capture the metadata on the envelopes containing Gleason's nitrate negatives, previously store improperly in the freezer at ACAD. Last spring, we re-housed them correctly and sent them to Springfield Armory's Cold storage facility for safe keeping on long-term loan. There are a few nitrates form the Sawtelle collection in there so disregard. Also, I think I told you I have discovered that a number of these negatives previously identified (simply by association) as "Gleason" are probably a photographer named George R. King-I have not updated the databases to reflect that yet. Also, I think I told you I started a project last year to reconcile "furniture & furnishings from Old Farm" found on the original inventory lists with what we have in our collection today. Below is a word doc (summary) prepared by my winter assistant about the project as well as the excel do she created to "track the objects. I have a number of inventories with Hadley's name -- contents of the house and safe at old farm 1940s (Box 4, F12) notes and transfer of OF properties sales and inventory of house and compass harbor cottage, 1942-1950 (Box 4, F10) There are a few versions of Ben Hadley's inventory as well, with many markings as objects were slated to be moved to Homan or O'Neil, or Supt residence at Isle Royale, or Supt. residence at Storm Beach, etc --and we tried to capture those markings (X, red S, O, B) in the inventory/excel spreadsheet. Let me know that you think --thanks Ron! Marie On Monday I will put in the mail a copy you requested in July of Dorr's last will and testament, completed 8/13/1943, along with a few codicils. Sorry for the delay. When we last spoke about the Gleason nitrate image database in July my notes indicate that you said you would send a copy along to me. Have not received and would be most interested. Finally, we talked about Oldfarm inventories undertaken by Ben Hadley. I have several. Please tell me the title of what you have and I will copy and send along what you lack. Marie C. Yarborough Curator Cultural Resources & Interpretation Liaison https://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=391675&tz=America/New_York&xim= 1/2