Publications , - Bibliagraphy 6/11/20 Dorr's Writings - categorized / Published monagraphs Story of AINP. ord. French Commessors der Ray 2. Published articles, ind. callabations 3. Personal letters 4. Policies Inc. NPS/ANP Policies fa Pellic. 5 memoirs 6 Dorr Family Aveestry 7 Ward Family anacdetes fiel. graduation would Barup letter destroyed SGW & Translations not Pack f the abuzge 9. Series Editor/author George B.Dorr Bibliography Dorr, George Bucknam. "Acadia, the Seacoast Park," Home Geographic Monthly 2 (July 1932): 43-48. Dorr, George Bucknam. "Acadia National Park." Unpublished typescript. Dorr Papers. 1929. Dorr, George Bucknam. Acadia National Park: its growth and development. Bangor: Burr Printing Co., 1948. Dorr, George Bucknam. Acadia National Park: its origin and background. Bangor: Burr Printing Co., 1942. Dorr, George Bucknam. "Acadia National Park: A Seacoast Possession of the Nation," Nature Magazine (May 1929): 315-18, 345-48. Dorr, George Bucknam. "The Acadian Forest," Sieur de Monts Publications VIII (1916-1919): 1-7. Dorr, George Bucknam. The Acadian Forest. Bar Harbor: Wild Gardens of Acadia, 1922. Dorr, George Bucknam. "The Coastal Setting, Rocks, and Woods of the Sieur de Monts National Monument," Sieur de Monts Publications IV (1916-1919): 1-7. Dorr, George Bucknam. "Commentary on The Tracy Log: 1855." " Typescript. Jesup Memorial Library Archives. Bar Harbor, ME 1940. Dorr, George Bucknam. Commissions du Roy et de Monseigneur l'Admiral au sieur de Monte, pour l'habitation es terres de Lacadie Canada, & autres endriots en la Nouvelle France: ensemble les defenses premieres & secondes a tous autres, de trafiquer avec les sauvages desdites terres. Bar Harbor: G.B. Dorr, 1915. Dorr, George Bucknam. "Garden Approaches to the National Monument," Sieur de Monts Publications XVII (1916-1919): 21-30. -Dorr, George Bucknam. "A Glorious Tribute to France: The New Lafayette National Park on the Maine Coast," La France (Sept. 1920): 590-93. Dorr, George Bucknam. Hardy Plant Descriptions. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1913. Dorr, George Bucknam. "The Jesup Memorial Library," private printed [1911?], Jesup Memorial Library, Bar Harbor, ME. Dorr, George Bucknam. Lafayette National Park, Mount Desert Island: The Acadian Forest. Bar Harbor: Wild Gardens of Acadia, 1922. 2. Dorr, George Bucknam. "Man and Nature," Sieur de Monts Publications VII (1913): 1-10. Dorr, George Bucknam. Mount Desert Nurseries: Hardy Plant Desriptions. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1913. Dorr, George Bucknam. "Mt. Katahdin as a Forest Reservation," Sieur de Monts Publications XVIII (1916-1919): 27-33. Dorr, George Bucknam. "National Parks and Game Preserves," The Three New Supplementary Volumes of The Encyclopaedia Britannica (London: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1926). Dorr, George Bucknam. "National Parks and Monuments," Sieur de Monts Publications XIX (1918): 1-11. Dorr, George Bucknam. "A New Building for Music at Bar Harbor," Bar Harbor, ME: private print., 1906. Dorr, George Bucknam. "On Wild Life and Landscape as Essential Elements in Human Environment," National Park Service, Harpers Ferry Center Library Archives, Harpers Ferry, WVA Dorr, George Bucknam. " Our Seacoast National Park," Appalachia 15 (1920): 174-181. Dorr, George Bucknam. "The Sieur de Monts National Monument," Sieur de Monts Publications 1 (1916-1919): 2-3. Dorr, George Bucknam. "Sieur de Monts National Monument and its Historical Associations," Sieur de Monts Publications XVII (1916-1919): 1-21. Dorr, George Bucknam. "Sieur de Monts National Monument and its Historical Associations: Garden Approaches to the National Monument," Sieur de Monts Publications XVII (1916-1919). Dorr, George Bucknam. "The Sieur de Monts National Monument and the Wild Gardens of Acadia," Sieur de Monts Publications XXII (1916-1919): 1-17. Dorr, George Bucknam. "The Sieur de Monts National Monument as a Huguenot Memorial," Sieur de Monts Publications XXIII (1916-1919):1-3. Dorr, George Bucknam. "The Sieur de Monts National Monument as Commemorating Acadia and Early French Influences of Race and Settlement in the United States," Sieur de Monts Publications IX (1916-1919): 1-6. Dorr, George Bucknam. "Some Thoughts Concerning Acadia National Park Planning for its Future." Bar Harbor, ME: Acadia National Park Archives, 1940. Dorr, George Bucknam. The Story of Acadia National Park. Bar Harbor: Acadia Publishing Co., 1997. Dorr, George Bucknam. "Superintendent George B. Dorr tells of the discovery of Mt. Desert Island and the development of Acadia National Park." Bar Harbor Times August 16, 1935. Dorr, George Bucknam. "Two National Monuments: the Desert and the Ocean View," Sieur de Monts Publications XIV (1916- 1919): 1-15. Dorr, George Bucknam. "What do National Parks Stand For?" Acadia National Park Archives typescript document. Dorr, George Bucknam. "Wild Life and Nature Conservation in the eastern States," Sieur de Monts Publications VI (1916-1919): 1-11. Dorr, George Bucknam, Ernest Howe Forbush & M.L. Fernald. "The Unique Island of Mount Desert," National Geographic 26 (July 1914): 74-89. 590 The ocean and the mag- nificent rocks along the coast, are the unique pos- session of the Lafayette National Park. The coast is what scientists call a "drowned" one, an old land surface flooded by the sea, the old stream valleys changed to bays, the hilltops into islands A Glorious Tribute to France The New Lafayette National Park on the Maine Coast By GEORGE B. DORR E AFAYEME NATIONAL PARK, cre- It was the Peace of Vervins, ending the voyage of discovery westward, in an open, ated by Act of Congress during the long desolation of the Religious Wars, which lateen-sailed vessel with a dozen sailors. De- war lies in the old French province of released the energies that made such coloniza- tained at first by fog, Champlain came finally Acadia on the deeply embayed many-har- tion of a wild and distant continent possible, in a single, long day's sail into sight of the bored east of Eastern Maine Mount Desert and laid the first foundation for the (magnifi Mount Desert Mountains, rising like a great Island l'Isle des Monts deserts-whose su- cent)development of America. beacon from the sea, and turned into French- perb, ocean-fronting granite heights it occu- De Monts was commissioned by the king, man's Bay, pies, was discovered and named by Champlain in noble words, to colonize and Christianize ANine years later-i 1613 other ves- in September, 1604, when the deciduous trees "the lands and territory of Acadia," a name sels from across the sea sailed into French- among the characteristic pines and hemlocks that first appears in this commission though man's Bay and came to rest after a dangerous of the Acadian coast were turning to red and the king states it was already familiar to him and stormy passage. Then, Henry IV had gold. Then, all to the south as far as Florida from the accounts of fishermen and traders. been assassinated ; De Monts, his influence lost was wild and forested to the water's edge, He brought out with him Champlain-most at court, had returned to Pons; and this, led inhabited by the native -Indians only. famous of French mariners-and he it was by Jesuit fathers, was the first of the long To France belongs the henor of the first who first among recorded white men set foot series of missionary expeditions sent out from colonization of America to the north of the upon Mount Desert Island and explored its France to convert the Indians. Spanish. It was an undertaking broadly and shores. The vessels arrived in fog but the following nobly conceived by France's greatest king, Reaching first the coast of Nova Scotia, De morning the day dawned (fair, the fog lifted, Henry Henry of Navarre-warrior and Monts and Champlain sailed on into the Bay and a scence of beauty unequalled on our statesman. His lieutenant in this enterprise of Fundy and chose as site for their first eastern coast lay spread before the voyagers. was a soldier of ancient family in southwestern colony] of Acadia an island in the tidal mouth Only the direct guidance of God, the Jesuit France, Pierre du Guast, Sieur de Monts of what is now the Saint Croix River, named fathers felt, could have led them in safety who, with his father, had followed him through for it and now the commencement of the na- over the uncharted wilderness of waters to a the Religious Wars and whom-greatly trust- tional boundary between the United States spot so fair, and under the impulse of the ing, Champlain tells us-he had appointed and Canada. moment they named the colony they had come governor of the ancient city of Pons in While De Monts establishing the to establish, Saint Sauveur. Later, persuaded Saintonge, a city of refuge for the Huguenots. Saint Croix colony he sent Champlain on a by Indians dwelling at the entrance to Somes SEPTEMBER, 1920 Sound, where a deep shell-mound at Man- The French Dominion Strait but still signed himself, in true feudal chester's Point still remains to tell of their by Francis Parkman fashion, Seigneur des Monts deserts. long presence, they sailed thither and settled In 1713, a century and over after the com- on the opposite shore. T French dominion is a memory of the past, and when we evoke its departed shades, they ing of De Monts, Louis XIV, defeated in This colony, while still in the making, was rise upon us from their graves in strange, ro- Europe, ceded Acadia, save only Cape Breton, wrecked by an armed vessel from Virginia, mantic guise. Again their ghostly camp-fires seem to the English by the Treaty of Utrecht, and commanded by Samuel Argall, that came sail- to burn, and the fitful light is cast around on lord and vassal and black-robed priest, mingled with the last hope of its recovery by France van- ing in one summer morning while the colo- wild forma of savage warriors, knit in close fei- ished half a century later with the capture of- nists were at work, and opened fire at sight, lowship on the same stern errand. A boundless Quebec. A contest then ensued between the killing some and capturing others. One of vision grows upon us: an untamed continent; vast Provinces of Massachusetts and Nova Scotia the leaders who was captured and carried off wastes of forest verdure: mountains silent in for the possession of that portion of Acadia to Virginia, and thence to England, Father primeval sleep; river, lake, and glimmering pool; wilderness oceans mingling with the sky. Such lying in what later became eastern Maine, se- Biard, wrote a history of the expedition and was the domain which France conquered for Civ- cured finally by Massachusetts through the its wrecking, which is printed in the Jesuit ilization. Plumed helmets gleamed in the shade efforts of Sir Francis Bernard, her last pro- Narratives. The episode is important since of its forests, priestly vestments in its dens and vincial Governor save Hutchinson. Massa- it marks the first act of open warfare in the fastnesses of ancient barbarism. Men steeped in antique learning, pale with the close breath of the chusetts showed her gratitude by giving him, long contest between France and England for cloister, here spent the noon and evening of their in turn, Mount Desert Island. Taking the the control of North America, which ended lives, ruled savage hordes with a mild parental Court side, however, in the Revolutionary on the heights of Abraham. The site of this away, and stood serene before the direst shapes struggle, Governor Bernard was presently re- settlement is still known as Jesuit Field, and of death. Men of courtly nurture, heirs to the polish of a far-reaching ancestry, here with their scalled to England, lands being confiscated. a spring upon the shore mentioned by Father dauntless hardihood, put to shame the boldest sons After the war was over, Governor Bernard Biard still bears the name of Jesuit Spring. of toil. having in the meantime died, his son' John In the years that followed, the Mount 'Des- It is a memorable but half-forgotten chapter in Bernard, dwelling in the city of Bath, Maine, ert Mountains became a famous landmark to the book of human life that can be rightly read mariners, both French and English, as they only by widely scattered lights. petitioned the General Court of Massachusetts to be given possession of his father's Island, came and went, and Frenchman's Bay obtained and Massachusetts gave him an undivided half- its name from the use made of it by the French of Frenchman's Bay. Sprung like De Monts interest in it A few years later the grand- as a safe rendezvous in their expeditions from an ancient family in southwestern daughter of Cadillac, Mme. de Gregoire, and against the New England colonies. France, Cadillac had been lately given seignor- her husband, French refugees, came out bring- In 1688, the name of Antoine de la Mothe ial possession of the Island by the Province ing letters from Lafayette, and petitioned in Cadillac appears in a list prepared for the of Quebec, and a deed confirming the grant, turn the Court, on grounds not of right but English Court by Sir Edmund Andros, gov- which is still on record in Quebec, had been of sentiment - the gratitude of America to ernor of New England, with reference to a given him by Louis XIV. France for assistance rendered in her war for proposed descent on the Acadian coast, he Later Cadillac, leaving Acadia for Canada independence-to be given their grandfather's being therein described as dwelling with his and offering his services to Frontenac, became possession of the Island, and the Court granted wife upon the Island's eastern shore, the shore the founder of Detroit - the "City of the them the other undivided half. The sense of freedom we get from looking over wide ocean stretches is equalled only by the thrill that comes to us at the sight of mile upon mile of forest, broken by delicious lakes and fading on the horizon into the blue haze of distant hills. Very beautiful this island must have seemed to Champlain who discovered it in 1604 and named it l'Isle des Monts déserts 592 LA FRANCE 1919 by A. S. Dockham The position of the park on great coastal bird-migration route make it a wonderful place for sheltering and preserving the plant, bird and animal life of region, representing the whole eastern section of the continent to the north of Portland Shortly after, in 1787, the Island was di- Frenchman's Bay, coming from /Saint Croix coastal warping, its old stream valleys changed vided between these owners by order of the Cadillac, lord of the Monts deserts, is com- to bays (and tidal reaches, its hilltops into Massachusetts Court, and its eastern half, memorated in their highest summit; Saint iglands and all the sea within the three-mile bailing its bolder portion and the higher moun- Sauveur Mountain looks down on the site of limit, from headland to headland, is a national tains-containing Bar Harbor Northeast the old Jesuit colony, and the scene of its possession for the Park to utilize, making it Harbor, and Seal Harbor-was to the wrecking and Sieur de Monts Spring, a never its own in recreational ways, a unique and De Gregoires, who made their home' there- failing fountain of pure water issuing from wonderful extension of its after at Hull's Cove, on Frenchman's Bay, the mountain's foot, commemorates the found- From Frenchman's Bay to Penobscot Bay and died there, selling their lands to settlers, er of Acadia. Of these and kindred matters remarkable system of island-sheltered water piece by piece, whose descendants in various pamphlets published by the Government will ways leads along the most beautiful section of instances tilkshow deeds bearing the Cadillac tell all visitors to the National Park here- the North American Coast fifty miles, name. The western half of the Island-con- after, and the spirit of a by-gone time will be bearing still /old Indian and French-Acadian taining Southwest Harbor and Bass Harbor, invoked to make the landscape rich with names, Eggomoggin Reach, Isle au Hault, important fishing centers now-was given im-triancient memories and old associations. Castine and others. Outside, one passes into ilarly to John Bernard, whose father had laid Infayette National Park is a TC if world-famous fishing ground extending to out Southwest Harbor as town the first markable tráct. In it, at the only place on Georges Bank, formed by glacial deposit on upon the Island down with ur Atlantic coast, mountains come down to the ancient -continental shelf and thence to surveyors and considerable suite in 1762, meet the sea, their bases bathed by it. In it, New Foundland. Hardy fishermen from the sailing Boston burbor. the boreal forest, extending northward to the coasts of France haunted these waters in num- It is from these two grants made by Massa- Arctic Circle, meets the southern flora as it bers as early as the middle of the sixteenth chusetts after the Revolution, the one to the ranges northward. Its rocks are among the century, making a perilous voyage, in quest granddaughter of the first French owner, most,ancient in the world the Alps fand of Lenten cod. holding by á grant from the Crown of France, Himaleyas are young compared with them, as The breath of adventure hangs over them, and the other to the son of the first English mountain uplifts, and human history passes and none has expressed this better than Cham- ,holding by a grant from Massachusetts into nothingness in the presence of the vast plain in his dedication to the Queen Mother, confirmed by George that the deeds of antiquity of which they tell Norway and the in 1613, of his book telling of De Monts, and the Government to the lands now forming north of Scotland are their true companions. his Acadian ventures: "Among all most excel- Lafavette-National Park are drawn The the t-split, sce eroded granite of the lent and useful arts, that of navigating has Realizing the interest of these old associa- mountains rising Hip through older, bent and always seemed to me to hold first place. For tions, the United States Geographic Board twisted Cambrian strate offers magnificent so much the more that it is hazardous, and upod the Park's establishment re-named-in walks and climbs, and the views one obtains accompanied by a thousand wrecks and perils, the /interest, it stated, of patriotism and edu- upon them, of vast sea horizons, of .forest, so much the more is it esteemed beyond others, cative history-certain mountains in the Island lake and bay are singularly inspiring being in no way suited to those who lack cour- range whose former names were not signifi- is the ocean itself which is the Park's unique age or self-confidence. This art it is that from cant. Champlain is commemorated in the bold possession T who love the sea; noth- my earliest youth has drawn me to itself, and peak under whose shadow-flung far out over The coast is what physical led me to expose myself during nearly my sea in autumn afternoons as the sun goes geographers call drowned one, an old land whole life to the impetuous waves of the down-he must have sailed on entering surface flooded by the sea through downward ocean." from Island's at that upon which Bay Dup 14/02, Copy not corrected" GBD Re Abbe, SEA FOAM The waves break ceaselessly against the mountain bases of this See pg. 346+ coastal National Park Acadia National Park A Seacoast Possession of the Nation by George B. Dorr Superintendent of Acadia National Park TAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK, placed in termerly old Acadian L sioned by Henry IV, Henry of Navarre, Huguenot pro- territory on the coast of Maine has been for tector and great king, to take possession as Viceroy of the past ten years the only National Park in the land for France under the name of l'Accadie, a the United States east of the Mississippi. It sprung name, the commission states, with which he had become from state-incorporated public reservations, extend- familiar through accounts brought back by fishermen ing over the mountain heights and wooded valleys and traders returning from its shores. of Mount Desert Island, which had been formed by That was in December, 1603; in March, 1604, de President Charles W. Eliot of Monts set sail, bringing Cham- Harvard, by the present superin- plain as aide; and while he was tendent of the Park, and a few founding his first colony on an other early summer residents. By island in the tidal estuary of the commencement of the Wil- the St. Croix River, where our son Administration these reserva- national boundary now runs, he tions had assumed importance sent Champlain in an open sail- enough, in view of the wonderful boat with a dozen sailors to ex- coastal scenery they command, to plore the western coast. One long be offered to the national govern- day's sail with favoring wind ment. Franklin K. Lane, Secretary brought him to the head of French- of the Interior, welcomed the gift, man's Bay, as the Bastonnais-the which three years later, with lands people of Boston and the New En- increased and deeds perfected, be- gland coast-later called it, when came by presidential proclamation he discovered Mount Desert Island he Sieur de Monts National Monu- and named it from the bare rock ment. peaks he saw against the western The territory was that of the sky, l'Isle des Monts déserts. ncient French province of Acadia, Two days later, guided by In- f which the Sieur de Monts was YOUNG EAGLES ON THE NEST ounder. De Monts was commis- The characteristic white plumage of dians dwelling on its shore, at the head will come with age Hull's Cove apparently where 315 NATURE MAGAZINE May, 1920 ing and gallant figure which appears and vanishes. In 1613 a Jesuit mission to convert the Indians, fi nanced by Mme. de Guercheville, a wealthy and piou- lady of the Court, dropped anchor, after a long and dangerous voyage, in the harbor at the entrance to Somes Sound, a glacial fiord which divides in two the Island` mountain chain, and, welcomed by Indians established on the opposite shore, commenced a settlement on a grassy meadow sloping to the sea which still bears th name of Jesuit Field. Then, one fair summer day, an English vessel from Virginia, captained by Sir Samuel Argall, came sailing in and without pause or warning opened fire upon the mission, which it wrecked, carrying off as prisoners two Jesuit fathers, whose full account is published in the Jesuit Narratives. That, Parkman says, was the first act of overt warfare in the long century and a half struggle between France and England for the possession of North America, a struggle which ended only on the heights of Abraham in the capture of Quebec: During this struggle Frenchmans Bay played its part as a rendezvous for French vessels in attacks on the SOMES SOUND New England coast, or as shelter when attacked. The only glacial fiord upon our eastern coast, seen from the southern cliff-face of Acadia Mountain Two generations after the wrecking of this settlement. Mount Desert Island and two square leagues upon the many Indian relics have been found, Champlain sailed opposite mainland were granted, as a feudal fief, by the on around or through the archipelago of lesser islands Government of Quebec and Louis XIV to Antoine de la lying between it and Penobscot Bay. Mothe Cadillac, a soldier of Acadia, who became its Ascending the long estuary of the Penobscot River, Seigneur. Later, joining Frontenac on the St. Lawrence, which he calls the Norumbégue, Champlain reached he founded Detroit, the 'City on the Strait,' but for a an Indian village at the head of tidal water near the time he lived apparently upon the Island, on the shore present city of Bangor, commenting in his journal on of Frenchmans Bay, until in the warring of the period the open, park-like beauty of its eastern shore, the dark his home was wrecked. forest on its western. The next act in the drama was carried out upon the Upon that trip he also named the Isle au Haut, outer- battlefields of Europe and ended in the Peace of Utrecht most headland of the submerged coast whose heights in 1713, by which all Acadia, save only Cape Breton now form the islands and whose valleys are the thor- with the strong fortress of Louisberg, was ceded to En- oughfares and channels of that uniquely picturesque, gland. But the cession was a fiction only and warfare sea-penetrated shore. still went on until the capture of Louisberg in 1758. A few years later Henry IV was killed by a fanatic after a long siege by land and sea, and the fall of in the streets of Paris, and de Monts, a Huguenot, re- Quebec in 1759, which marked the final downfall of turned to France, where by King Henry's earlier ap- the French Dominion in America. pointment he was Governor of Pons, an ancient city in Then only began colonization from Massachusetts, by southwestern France established as 2 place of refuge for the efforts of whose last English Governor, Sir Francis Huguenots; and there he passes out of sight, an interest- Bernard, that portion of Acadia which is eastern Maine. including Mount Desert and the National Park and all the coa between to the Penobscot River was granted to that Province The rest, with its French peas antry, whose fate in part is to by Longfellow in Evangelin became Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. For his services in securin to Massachusetts the wester portion of Acadia that Provin gave to Governor Bernard t Island of Mount Desert, igno: ing Cadillac's early claim, an JORDAN POND A deep, ice-excavated rocky basin a the heart of the Park range May, 1929 NATURE MAGAZINE 317 King George confirmed the grant. He sailed to visit it in 1763, from Fort William in Boston harbor, bring- ing with him surveyors and a considerable suite, and laid out for settlement the town of Southwest Harbor with in-lots and out-lots, and kept a journal, still ex- tant, telling of the trip. Then came the Revolution. Governor Bernard took the English side. His lands were confiscated and Mount Desert Island again became the property of Massachu- setts, not Province now but Commonwealth. After the Revolution was over, petitions for a grant of the Island were received by the General Court of Massachusetts from the grand-daughter of Cadillac and the son of Bernard; and the Court divided it between them, giving to the grand-daughter of Cadillac and her husband, M. and Mme. de Grégoire, the eastern half, whereon the highest mountains are, and the park head- quarters at Bar Harbor; and the western half beyond Somes Sound to Bernard's son. From these two grants, the one recalling French Acadia and the ancient grant to Cadillac, the other the passing of Acadia to England and the grant to Massa- chusetts, come, apart from a few early settlers' granted ROCKY SHORELINE claims, the titles of the United States to its park posses- Lava cliffs fronting the sea on Ironbound Island in the outer portion of Frenchmans Bay sions on Mount Desert Island, as yet its only ones within the eastern states. Portland east has this submerged character, giving When Congress gave the Sieur de Monts National it its extraordinary length of shoreline and recreational Monument its first appropriation, the Appropriations importance. Committee coupled it with the statement that the tract From Penobscot Bay to Frenchmans Bay the scenery was by nature a national park area and should be made culminates in bold and mountainous formations and in a park. A bill to make it so was introduced accordingly a beauty which has long been famous. A multitude of by Senator Hale of Maine which duly passed and was islands links these bays with delightful waterways tra- signed by President Wilson on his first return from versed of old by the Indians in their bark canoes and France, on February 26, 1919. ideal now for power and other quiet-water boating. The period when the bill was introduced, in the sum- Mount Desert Island is the easternmost and largest in mer of 1918, was one when all men's thoughts were this archipelago. Its mountain range, which forms the turned to France and the youth of America on its way to dominant landscape feature of the National Park, fronts battle there; and the name of Lafayette suggested itself the sea across it from east to west. for the new park possession that once had been a portion Deeply trenched by glacial erosion, dividing it into of old France and that looked out upon the ocean which separate peaks, its highest summit, Cadillac Mountain, our men were traversing. rises as a solid block of granite to a broad-topped eleva- Ten years later, when another bill was introduced by tion fifteen hundred and twenty-eight feet above the the Hon. John E. Nelson of Maine, Representative from ocean level, and descends, surf-swept, beneath it. To its district, to give powers to the Secretary of the Inte- this summit, from which one looks out over a vast ex- rior for the Park's enlargement beyond the limits of panse of ocean to a far horizon and up and down the Mount Desert Island, opening a new future to it, it seemed wise to take for it a name telling in a single word of the long history that lay behind it, with which it was so closely bound, and call it Acadia National Park, which was approved and done. The Park looks out upon a submerged coast, a sunken land, the worn remnants of whose an- cient heights are islands and headlands, whose stream-eroded valleys form bays and estuaries. The whole coast of Maine from THE PARK RANGE Cadillac and Champlain Mountains seen from an outer lighthouse island 318 NATURE MAGAZINE May, 1929 along coast for fifty miles, the Government is building a road The wild life of the Park is that of its Acadian re- which in sheer beauty will have few equals in the gion, a famous hunting ground, but moose keep to the world. The other peaks that form the range, separated wilder mainland woods and bears learned long ago to by deep wooded valleys and lakes of glacial origin, are shun the \coast. Deer are plentiful and tame. Beaver, reserved for walkers. formerly abundant, as their traces show, had wholly From far to sea and east and west along the coast, disappeared till recently when the State Game Com- these bold rock-masses dominate the landscape. East- mission sent the Park two pairs, who so thrived and ward the sun rises from the Bay of Fundy, the "Deep multiplied that Vernon Bailey of the United States Bay", named by the Biological Survey was Portuguese, but by the summoned and met the French, Baie Francoise. problem of their fast Westward, it sinks increase by the use of behind the distant Cam- traps that catch harm- den Hills over the ar- lessly and the encour- chipelago with its min- agement of beaver farm- gled lands and waters. ing on the neighboring The greatest recrea- marshlands. They tional territory in the readily grow tame and country is the New Eng- are a source of constant land coast, reaching to interest where their the St. Croix River, flooding activities can where de Monts' first be held in check. settlement of Acadia Ultimately, fur-farm- was made, from Long ing must replace the Island Sound in the vi- cruelty of the wild-life cinity of New York. In trap, where profit is early times its waters concerned and not the formed the highroad extermination of a nox- connecting the colonies ious species. The steel with each other and trap with the vast suf- with the outside world. fering it causes has no Now it has become a place in the world to- source of infinite re- of freshment to the great elothing.) city and industrial pop- Mount Desert Island ulations of the East. lies directly on the At- The character of this lantic Coast migration coast and its extraor- route of northern nest- dinary fitness to great A SYLVAN SCENE IN THE PARK ing birds of which such recreational needs are Wood road through the primeval forest in Acadia National Park wonderful accounts due to glacial action, the ice sheet invasion extending have come down to us from early days; its mountains to New York Harbor and there ceasing; and to the form a landmark on their flight. And it lies midway deep embayments of a sunken shore. upon it, a nesting ground itself for many species win- To Casco Bay, beyond Portland, beaches predomi- tering in the south, and winter home to others from nate; from there east is a coast of rocks, culminating the north. Their coming and their going mark the sea- in boldness at Mount Desert. But deep embayments, sons. islanded and giving wonderful opportunities for sum- The American bald eagle, the national emblem, nests mer life upon the water, are characteristic of great in the Park and may be often seen soaring above the sections of the coast throughout; and the most beauti- mountains or the sea. Ospreys fish the waters and birds ful of these and most richly islanded is that of the old of many species feed along the shore, where the great Acadian region of the National Park. rise and fall of tide twice daily furnishes an inexhaus- From the dawn of history the sea, on islanded and tible supply. In the fall, ducks gather in great numbers harbored coasts, has moulded human character, arous- on the lakes and nearby ocean waters, and when winter ing its energies, stimulating the imagination and freezes up their northern feeding grounds wild geese awakening the sense of beauty, symbolized by the come flying overhead, honking, in great V formations, Greeks of Homer's time in the birth of Aphrodite from or descend to rest. The whole Park is sanctuary, and the sea-foam off the Isle of Cyprus. That the National outside it the gardens which have become a famous Park Service should take part in preserving to the feature of the summer-resident communities along the people in free contact this great influence and source coast with the native farms and pasturelands attract of health is the purpose of Acadia National Park. species which the woods do not. The range is wide and Situated in a region where no public holdings have every summer the Massachusetts-AudubonSocie existed since colonial days, it has been wholly formed maintains a July-camp for study-upon the border of the by gift; and it is by further gift that it still must grow. (Continued or page 345) POWER MICROSCOPE $1650 NEW ENGLAND'S MADE IN MAMMALS Educational, entertaining, this (Continued from page 314) Speeditwin- fine microscope helps all to know 20 H.P., life that can't be seen with un- apple orchards. Many a bear, however, passes 6 to 45 aided eye. Tiny insects look like a practically blameless life as far as man's M.P.H. monsters. Plant and min- eral life reveal new won- interests are concerned. Without this in- ders in form and color. teresting beast our wilderness areas would Used by students, dentists, physicians, scientists-in lose a definite part of their charm. office, If space permitted, it would be pleasant hool and labor- to write of some of the other fur-bearing alary. Precise op- tical qualities. species, such as the raccoon, the mink, the Magnifies 100 to three species of weasels, the skunk, the 230 times. Tiliting otter, the beaver, and the muskrat. The stand, fine finish, nickel trim. plush- otter, for example, still lingers in small lined CREA urenared slide, instructions. numbers almost within sight of the Bun- At your dealer or ker Hill Monument, and the beaver has direct postpaid. er Money back guar- once more become common in parts of do antee. Other models $2.50 to $8.50 Maine. Then there are numbers of lesser More species, each interesting in its own way Catalog Free the woodchuck, every farmer's unbidden Fun than Flying! 5 Wollensak Optical Company guest; the chipmunk, easily considered the FOR the whole family-"Evinruding!' For ca- noe, hunting skiff, rowboat, runabout, speed 860 Hudson Ave. Rochester, N. Y. most attractive and confiding of all our hull and small cruiser there's an Evinrude for mammals; the gray squirrel, listed as a the job. Four "Twin" models-21/2, 6, 14 and 20 horse power. More power, more speed, more game animal and yet almost as tame in features for 1929-underwater exhaust, water- THIS CLASS PIN 30c. the woods of Massachusetts as on Boston proof ignition, easy starting made still easier, torpedo-streamline, pressure-vacuum cooling $30 if you buy 1% or more. Sliver plate. Singly 60c ea. choice of % Common; the elusive lemming mouse, (no moving parts), self steering. Easy pay- colorsenamel, 3 letters & date. Sterling Silver, 12 or more 50g ea. Singly 60cea Big Free Cat. shows Emblems 95c to $8 as. scorner of baited traps; the two species ments as low as $31.10 down. 685 METALARTS CO., Isc, 872 Portland Ave, Rechester, N.Y. of dainty jumping mice; the snowshoe rab- Write jor new free Evinrude Year Book. treat bit, retreating northward as the cottontail EVINRUDE MOTOR COMPANY 828 27th Street advances; and the blundering porcupine, Milwaukee, Wis. Division of Briggs & Stratton Corporation The Colonial Sun Dial which has developed an armament of Makes an ideal Garden ornament. quills at the expense of its brain. And Made of cast metal diam. 11": weight 8 lbs. Lacquered still the roll is far from complete. EVINRUDE a rustic gray and gold. Motto-"Time takes all but memories. Post- paid $3.50, or $4. west of Denver. ACADIA NATIONAL The Out-Of-Doors Also terra cotta sun dial CRAFT DEPT. PARK Is Calling You! pedestals, bird baths, con- crete garden furniture, A. H. PATCH, INC. pottery. Write for prices Est. 1885 (Continued from page 318) Get a Carpenter Tent and camping equipment; tune and illustrations. Clarksville, Tenn. up your car and answer the Park by Echo Lake call-take the whole family along. Send for catalog and get the whole story. It's FREE! Botanically, the region is most interest- Contains splendid chapter on auto camping. ing. Flowering plants do wonderfully there, Ask for Catalog No. 601 Learn to be a- native or cultivated, blooming brilliantly LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT and in rich profusion. Rock gardens of GEO-B-CARPENTER & Co. Nature's making fill clefts and hollows on At Home-By Mail the granite mountains, Wild orchids grow TENTS-AWNINGS-FLAGS Big fees, pleasant healthful on the alluvial soils; in the woods grow Tentmakers for 87 years all work: a dignified, uncrowded the pink ladyslipper, Cypripedium acaule, 440 North Wells Street Chicago, Ill. profession offering remark- able opportunities. Immedi- the wood lily, Trillium undulatum, Clin- ate income possible, many tonia in broad leafy masses surmounted by Butterfly Shades students more than pay for course from fees earned magnificent blue_berries in the later sea- All materials and directions while studying. Graduates are son, clustered pyrolas whose flowering for making this Exquisite Shade earning $50 to $200 a week. The first step toward success is stems with drooping ivory bells recall the -12" $5. to write today for details. lily-of-the-valley, the ground dogwood, or Price made up-$12.50 AMERICAN bunch berry, covering with white flower- BUTTERFLY BOX LANDSCAPE SCHOOL 63 Franklin St., combined with National School like bracts or scarlet fruits, sunlit patches BOSTON MASS. of Landscape Design 21 Plymouth Bldg., Des Moines, la. among the firs and spruces, Linnaa bor- Send for Circular showing complete line The Bio-Kits Are You Prepared for Spring? Complete outfits, including "The Bio-Kit Handbook", giving direc- tions for collecting, preserving, and mounting specimens. N. Y. Biological Supply Co. 34 Union Square, N. Y. City. Gentlemen:- Enclosed $ for item (s) checked below. money to be refunded if not satisfactory. BIO-KIT NO. I - $8.50; NO. II - $8.50 Name Street or R. F. D. City State BIO-KIT The Source for Nature Study Supplies! BIO-KIT NO. " Plant Collecting Set Insect and Animal Collecting Set ealis, most delicate of woodland plants that grow beneath the northern evergreen shade, the twisted-stalk, Streptopus, close cousin Heal of the Solomon seal, with brick-red, oval fruits pendent above shady streams. Develo In the open, wild roses gain a beauty in the cool air and radiant sunshine no garden can surpass; violets, white and Bird-Lore Magazine purple, carpet the ground in spring, Mi- tells all about Birds chaelmas daisiés make wild gardens by the 'Open up" and skip Oficial organ of the National Audubon Societies wayside in the fall, wild irises grow along Tells how to study birds, to make nesting the water's edge, in meadows the meadow along the waterways! boxes, feeding-stands and baths. Many illus- rue with many another moisture-loving trations, with color plate in every issue. $1.50 per year in S.. $1.75 in Canada (6 issues) plant, in the peat swamps the rhodora, of Descriptive circular free. Specimen nagazine which Emerson wrote his famous poem WINGS of spray and a frothy wakel There's a real thrill in this Old Town sea model. Properly sent for 10 cents in stamps. commencing designed to keep her nose level when you "open BIRD-LORE MAGAZINE "In May, when sea winds pierced our up' the outboard motor. You'ii be proud of her clean aristocracy of line and graceful design-and Box 687 Harrisburg, Penna. solitudes, she'll churn blue water into white at an astonish- I found the fresh rhodora in the woods, ing clip. Like all Old Town models, this craft is sturdily Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp built, tough and durable, and remarkably easy to nook handle. There are Old Town boats and canoes for Trees for Forest Planting To please the desert and the leafless every use. Some priced as low as $67. From dealer or factory. brook." Write today for free catalog. It shows and prices PINE SPRUCE Of native flowering shrubs and trees many light, water-tight models. Paddling, sailing and square-stern canoes, extra-safe Sponson mod- there is wide variety. In early spring the els, dinghies and sturdy family boats. Also speedy shad-bush, Amelanchier canadensis, trans- craft for outboard motors-racing step planes and hydroplanes. Old Town Canoe Co., 995 Main Firs, Arborvitaes and Other forms roadsides and bare rocky slopes into Keep Street, Old Town, Maine. Conifers. We raise all our scenes of sunlit beauty; the wild thorns later open white blossoms on the wood- Fun galo: "Old Town Boats" trees in our own nurseries. land edge, to be succeeded in the fall by children rich profusion of red fruit; in the early complete summer the most beautiful of the vibur- Flying R KEENE FORESTRY ASSOCIATES and Circ nums, V. lantanoides-difficult to trans- KEENE, NEW HAMPSHIRE plant and not brought into cultivation- girls of a Bean Manufac FREE the dang lights up moist woodland valleys with its CATALOG pure-white flower clusters. At every sea- FREE DEVELOP POWER son from opening spring till the witch Just off the press. hazel blooms with the first frosts in au- ing C Shows 50 items of footwear, AT HOME tumn there is changing interest and fresh mak clothing, tents, to initiate, persevere, achieve; carry on through store of beauty. life your education: earn credit toward a Bach- etc., for the fish- elor degree, by using the 450 courses For plant life in every worthwhile form, erman and motor as for birds and other animals, the park Many o camper. The University of Chicago is sanctuary and offers a wonderful oppor- L. L. BEAN Gives by Correspondence ground tunity, under the aegis of the National in full 333 Main St. Inquire or check the adv. to show desire and mail to 1929 Freeport 323 Ellis Hall, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. Government for the creation of wild gar- LOW I Maine dens and a permanent exhibit of the Aca- T dian flora for the study of botanists and 745-8 planters and the interest of all. UTICA uxbak The forest of the park is that of the Canadian zone, of "murmuring pines and CORP. hemlocks," of firs and spruces and the TRADE MARK northern hardwoods, in its richest content. With a few notable exceptions, the present Y OU get the clothes you want in Duxbaks. forest is second growth or younger, as the Genuine pivot sleeves that do free your primeyal Arees were early cut along the arms. Genuine Duxbak "sheds water like a coast where they could be loaded onto ves- duck's back" cloth-softer, yet much more Sparrow sels. But what the original forest was in your durable. Genuine Duxbak superior tailoring. favorable locations the huge rotting stumps, positive Highest quality at only a trifle more cost. today. See your Dealer, or write us. New book, cut high for winter, remain to $4.75 tell, and such it will be again under na- fails "Serviceable Clothes," FREE. back if tional protection against fire, and insect informa UTICA-DUXBAK CORP. and fungus attacks that are more fatal still. Also 51 Noyes St. Utica, N. Y. Indian occupation of the Acadia Park EVERS region must have been long, judging by the deep shell-mounds which it left be- Sleep! hind. This, with the lands of its latitude to the west, was the region of the birch bark canoe whose building Longfellow describes in Hiawatha in lines beginning "Give me ON THE of your bark, o Birch-tree (To the south, "LIGHT CAMP the canoe birch does not grow to size to SIX MATTRESS furnish the great sheets of tough but pli- Write today for R EAL sleep in the greatest comfort is yours Strong, durable khaki jean, specially rubber- ant bark required and dug-outs or logs hol- folders and 2- with this lightest, handsomest full-length ized inside. Full vulcanized, no cement. Pat- lowed out by fire were used instead quartcampleater air bed. Carry it easy as a rain-coat. Turn in carrier-FREE ented. Restricted air passages prevent "rolling." anywhere- on anything from rocks to mud. Improved fast valve with pump and blow caps. These shell-mounds are rich depesitaries Nothing can trouble you-no humps, hollows, No. 550: size 25" x 75", weight 5 1/2 lbs. Price of the Indians' stone-age implements, and ground moisture or underdraft. Complete rest $16. "Little Six", No. 517: 26 1/2" X 48", and protection. 4 lbs., $10. a museum for their safe-housing and ex- Airubber sectional mattresses in all sizes- hibit, built through the generous interest of most convenient and economical. All speed boat paus. Best Airubber camp pillow, No. 381-$2.50. If your dealer does not supply you, write us New York Rubber Corp., Box 40, Beacon, N. Y. Airubber the late Dr. Robert Abbe of New York and friends whom he \inspired, was opened DEPARTMENT summer by the Sieur de Monts Spring T. entrance to the park, under charge of Pro- Healthful Exercise fessor Warren K. Moorehead, of Andover, Massachusetts, the archeologist. The whole region of Acadian Maine and Develops Sturdy Children New Brunswick to its north is famous fishing territory for trout and salmon, owing to the abundant lakes and streams the Sheet left behind, and the cool waters of its northern climate. April, when the ice goes out, is the fisherman's hour, and then he fills the trains "down East". Out- side the famous Bangor Pool, saimon are no longer to be found in the region of the park but one must go north to find them, in leased and protected streams. But trout are abundant, and salmon-trout in certain waters, and the State and Federal govern- ments both are taking steps for their in- crease. Sea fishing is the unique opportunity of ERNEST H. WILSON Acadia among our national parks. The Keeper of the Arnold Arbore- waters off its shore are identical with those tum of Harvard University MERREMAKER of the Great Banks opposite, which men crossed the ocean to fish, in little sailing Let the keeper of 6-Play Gym vessels without chart or compass, as early as the middle of the 16th century. There Keeps Them Off the Streets are none better in the world. Along the AMERICA'S shore, rock cod and others are found, Fun galore and healthful exercise for several lobsters grow abundantly, and clambakes children at the same time on this wonderful GREATEST and chowders are a feature of the summer complete gym. Contains Swing, Trapeze, Flying Rings, Horizontal Bar, Teeter-Totter life. and Circus Climber. Will keep boys and But the shore furnishes, besides, a won- GARDEN girls of all ages happily occupied, safe from derful opportunity to biologists for marine the dangers of motor traffic. research, affording material for their work plan an aristocratic in rich abundance, and an association for FREE-New Catalog Contain- summer study, incorporated by the State, garden for you! ing Complete Line of Merre- -the Mt. Desert Island Biological Labora- tory-has been for years established at 'HOUSANDS of gardeners all maker Home Playground Salisbury Cove on upper Frenchmans Bay. over the world are in- Equipment Geologically the region of Acadia Na- debted to tional Park is one exhibiting a vast an- Many other attractive pieces of home play tiquity. Its earliest rocks are shales and ERNEST H. WILSON ground equipment are beautifully illustrated sandstones belonging to the Cambrian for innumerable valuable in full colors. Write for it and our new, LOW PRICES. period, hardened into trap. suggestions and plans derived When these early deposits, uplifted and from his THE MERREMAKER CORP. base-levelled, were already worn and old 745-8th St. S.E., Minneapolis, Minn. there came a time of fiery volcanism along GARDEN CLASSICS the region of the present coast, and lavas Realizing that many garden lovers flowed. Then followed a long period of in America have not yet had the GET RiD OF submergence, the shore sinking as atmos- opportunity to examine E. H. pheric wastes from an eroding land were Wilson's Garden Classics, the pub- SPARROWS piled upon it till these had reached a depth) lishers offer to send them for free of thousands of feet whose mass was examination to responsible persons. THiS WAY! driven with terrific pressure from below Fill out the coupon be- the which slowly cooled and Sparrows drive away the song birds and spoil crystallized to form the granite of the low and mail TODAY your flower garden. 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Fame of its beauty without obligation to me. I shall all of these obnoxious pests, and have dandelion - free lawn. Users say: spread and people came in rapidly increas- remit for those I retain. Dandelex is the right thing at last to rid ing number. Horses were few and roads Name us of dandelions. Send me another bag. got good results with Dandelex. And were rough. Walking and climbing, row- so on. Tell your neighbors about this ing, sailing and canoeing were the occupa- Address scientific preparation, and club together getting special prices on quantity lots. tions of the summer visitors, with picnics Liberal supply, 20 pounds, enough for average lawn, only $2.98. Have beant!- and excursions. Great changes have come, ful green grass. Satisfaction guaranteed and others yet are on their way, but the THE STRATFORD CO., Boston or your money back. Order at Once MISSION LABORATORIES, Inc. old trails over the mountains remain, and 215H Walnut, Kansas the wonderful ocean views. The changes advertisements 347 due to man seem little in their presence. PACKARD'S Develop its territory for the national use GALLOWAY POTTER Bluebird-Time Special the National Park Service must, but it can be safely trusted to conserve the beauty Gives the Essential Touch it will the freedom of a great coastal land- scape, supreme in its own type. CHAPELY jars and vases, dis. Other national parks in the eastern por- tinctive bird baths, fonts,st tion of the country are in process of forma- dials, gazing globes, benches- in high-fired enduring Terra tion, in the Great Smoky Mountains of Cotta will add new interest to North Carolina and Tennessee, on the Blue the garden, sun room or porch. Ridge of Virginia overlooking the war- famous vailey of the Shenandoah, and else- cataiog of many suggestions sent for 10c in stamps. where, but to Acadia will belong the memory Bluebirds Are Here! of having led the way and the distinction ESTABLISHED To KEEP them, nesting in the garden of being created wholly by the gift of 1810 or on the lawn, put out the Packard citizens to the United States, Bluebird houses. Best by every test, they last longest, cost least, and the birds-bluebirds, tree swallows. wrens. chickadees, love the bluebird size, pre- ferring them to all others. Even if you have some of these best bluebird houses NATURE IN NEW EN- out now you should put out more, in new places, to be sure to win the favor GLAND of the birds. Here is my special Bluebird-time (Continued from page 324) offer: six Packard Bluebird houses for $5.00, delivered has told us. And these words are echoed Just write "Bluebirds" and send your address with $5.00, check, money order many times. or a bill and I will send by return mail, Massachusetts, three hundred years ago, all charges paid, securely packed in a carton, ready to put up even to the became a pioneer in the movement which 3236 WAINT ST PHILADELPHI nails in position, six of these best-of- every Nature-lover is now anxious to pro- all Packard Bluebird houses. mote. In 1634 Boston Common was acquired I come pretty near losing money on this proposition but I do so want to as a city park. In 1641 the Massachusetts increase your interest in the birds and Bay Colony reserved to the people "great my work for them that I am willing to do it-in Bluebird-time. ponds", areas with water surface of ten 3 Bird Houses I hope you are feeding the birds. We acres or more. Now, in 1928, Governor ought to keep up until warm weather is surely here. Then you will want a Fuller appointed a Committee on Open bird bath. My free catalogue tells about Spaces, representing seventeen organizations these and other things. There are some new ideas in it. interested in aesthetics, recreation and con- Welcome Bluebirds! Let's say it with birdhouses servation. Confronted with a situation WINTHROP PACKARD where the present state holdings are ill- 1433 Washington St., Canton, Mass. distributed and inadequate, this committee Attract robins, bluebirds, wrens was given the task of surveying the existing chickadees, swallows, phoebes, and others. These birds come where they are invited. Frien "Cedarcraft" Natural Bark and potential sites and recommending a Houses offer a welcome and bring feathered friet with their cheerful songs and brilliant plumage BIRD-HOMES and FEEDERS plan covering future open spaces, urban Friendly Houses are made of fibre board having "The Rivd: Showed = How to Build Them" areas and transportation and communica- natural bark effect. Weather-proof. The 3 hous knocked down, will be sent postpaid on receipt MICHIGAN CEDARCRAFT CO. tion facilities. $1.00. or you may pay postman $1.00 plus posta (Trademark) on delivery. Money back guaranteed. Greenbush, Alcona Co., Mich A vigorous public opinion is the dynamic A. B. COWLES CO., 73 Commercial St., Rechester, , Please send me your illustrated Bird-homes Catalogue Name power sadly needed to recapture and pre- Address serve the last available portions of the City State beauty which Nature in a generous mood lavished upon New England. The commit- BE READY tee has a large undertaking calling for FOR THE BIRDS vision, leadership, unselfishness and en- WHEN THEY ARRIVE thusiasm. A start has been made by lovers of Nature in Massachusetts. The D.A.R. of the state has given one thousand acres It's somebody's Birthday today 3 for $5.00 and Post Charges of beautiful country near Goshen, and the Crescent Co. "Birdville" Temo River, N. Federation of Bird Clubs of New England has secured by gift or purchase twelve wild life reservations totalling two thou- sand acres. Town forests are being estab- lished by many communities through the activities of the Massachusetts Forestry Association, and this movement is becoming general in New England. Since 1920 the State has acquired State Forests of 105,000 acres and authority has been given for the $1.00 ea. Postage Paid purchase of eight thousand more acres. LINCOLN LOG Funds are still needed, however, for the development of these forests. Happy Wrens Will Come This movement in Massachusetts is re- They'll nest in your garden or yard if you have BIRD HOUSE flected throughout New England. The these attractive homes for them. These houses are Just the right size, made of % necessary leadership is materializing. The inch clear GULF CYPRESS (the wood eternal) Built and Colored according to economic considerations are a truly helpful with broad protecting eaves. They are CLEAN- ABLE and weather-proofed with linseed oil U. S. Govt., Specifications lever. But still we lag far behind Europe. and lead an inconspicuous brown. Each has Shipped "Knocked Down" special wood strip for mounting on tree, pole So, as Massachusetts celebrates her three- or house. Protects wrens from annoyance by Easily assembled. No nails required. other birds. hundredth anniversary next year, may it for LINCOLN LOGS. also be hoped that in vision of the future ($1.00 each) $5.00 Room 80, 232 E. Erie St., Chicago Enclosed is $ and in courage in convictions, the citizens Postage Paid for bird houses; money to be refunded If not satisfactory. of New England today may prove them- HAVE SEVERAL CHEERY WREN FAMI- LIES AROUND YOUR HOME. SEND NOW. Name selves not unworthy descendants of the WOODCRAFT SHOPS Address men who, against tremendous odds, hewed MARNE, MICH. City State New England out of the wilderness. 348 Mention NATURE MAGAZINE. It will facilitate service 4/14/2021 Gmail - Dorr's Libraries Gmail Ronald Epp Dorr's Libraries 2 messages Ronald Epp Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 4:37 PM To: Ruth Eveland Dear Ruth, Your email last week raised a provocative question about the fact that Dorr's book collections did not find their way to the Jesup. See the attachment for my response. Please let me know what you think of it.Do you think it has enough weight to be a suitable topic for a Zoom talk from the Jesup? Ronald Dorr's Library 421. docx 17K Ruth Eveland Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 5:21 PM To: Ronald Epp Dear Ron, I interrupted my other work to read this and yes, yes, please let's make it a talk for us. Sadly, we don't have library records before 1947 with random exceptions, since they were kept at the Thorndike's. That said, we have looked periodically at the books in the oldest part of the Special Collection and while nothing (to my knowledge) is marked as his, we might take another look for this possibility. | am not the only one who would like to hear you tell us this story. It would be an excellent August talk, if at all possible. Since Raymond was the source of some of the information you have in #5, I wonder if it is worth checking with his sons to see if they have anything to say about this either in terms of any items or more of the story from their father. Please let me know what we can do to make this happen! Thanks, Ruth Ruth A. Eveland Director Jesup Memorial Library https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ik=7c5f299744&view=pt&search=all&permthid=thread-a%3Ar4081119590907651398&simpl=msg-a%3Ar4082772074.. 1/2 Copy 2 13 April 2021 Dear Ruth, In your most recent email you asked why Dorr's books were never donated to the Jesup Library. This issue was not directly raised in my Creating Acadia National Park because of insufficient documentation on the matter. This necessitated that I not deal with it directly. Your question prompted me to revisit the Dorr Archive this past weekend, spending several hours combing through the files for the key period 1941- 1951. Unfortunately, I was not able to identify any relevant information that shifted my understanding from the published record. However, as you will see in #10, I do now situate the importance of these books within the larger context of his intellectual legacy. Since there is no "library" listed in the CANP Index, let me reiterate what is scattered throughout my biography about Dorr's behavior about books, publishing, and libraries. 1. Dorr's earliest memories include a celebration of his maternal grandfather Thomas Wren Ward's library on Park Street, Boston, where he reveled in the stories read to him by his grandpa. 2. No mention is made about his youthful use of private or public libraries. Moreover, the Harvard Library records do not support the view that he ever borrowed books from the Harvard Library; student borrowing in that era was the exception rather than the norm. What he may have consulted is another matter. 3. Dorr's essay on "The Jesup Memorial Library" is remarkably free of personal preferences. Its descriptive characterization of the building itself only departs from this narration in the final paragraph when he speaks of the aims of "the Directors" who wish the library "to serve as an awakening suggestion of the higher life of thought and feeling into which the world's great literature, both old and new, is-next to inspiring human contact-the torch-bearer and single guide." That Dorr at this time contributed resources to the new horticultural reading room is implied. 4. The Sawtelle Archive at park headquarters contains scores of letters and receipts documenting Dorr's book purchases from the Old Globe Bookstore during the 1920's and 1930's. These support the view that his bibliographic interests were wide and deep-more concentrated on works of contemporary literature, the Classics, and history irrespective of time and place. This pretty much conforms to the areas where he concentrated his undergraduate studies at Harvard, a half-century earlier. The Oldfarm property had three locations where books would have been housed: the mansion, Storm Beech Cottage, and a "park library" immediately behind the rear entrance to SBC. 5. This "park library" remains a historical enigma. When it was constructed is unknown but some 2,000 books were housed therein and with Dorr's death there are no additional comments about its fate. Since it was on park property following Dorr's death park superintendent Benjamin Hadley would have been the agent responsible for its fate, not the executors of Dorr's estate. It is not an exaggeration to report that it disappeared from the historical record. As you know, there is empirical data documenting the disposal of truckloads of Oldfarm content in the months following Dorr's death. If Hadley directed such activity might he also directed portions of this collection to the Jesup? If acquisition records during the five years after Dorr's death were retained, one might be able to advance this line of speculation. 6. As you know, it was my good fortune to discover with Josh Torrance (in 2008 director of the Woodlawn Museum), the lost Ellsworth ME office of attorney John A. Peters. In addition to his far ranging public responsibilities, Peters was a noted conservationist and the executor of Dorr's estate. Hundreds of documents covered not only estate matters but earlier dealings with Dorr and the evolution of Acadia National Park. Dorr completed more than five estate plans in the last two decades of his life, none explicitly detailing his wishes for his book collections. 7. For more than three years Peters, Dorr's secretary (Mrs. Phyllis Sylvia), and family friend Mary Newbold Hale worked largely in concert to carry out Dorr's explicit wishes. And, in the absence of written direction to craft solutions that they believed were in accordance with his wishes. "All property rights in any literary works of my own" were assigned by Dorr to the Trustees. This is a complicated set of stories not fully detailed in CANP. Mrs. Hale's letters document her efforts to place Dorr's family manuscripts with the Peabody Essex Museum, Boston Athenaeum, and Massachusetts Historical Society. Mrs. Sylvia was more concerned with publishing the incomplete second part of Dorr's Story of Acadia National Park and the disposition of Mansion furnishings. There are repeated references to "auctions" where the Mansion books may have been included; she appears to have worked closely with park officials but no attention is documented about SBC, its collections, and the park library. 8. Following the protracted title tracing and sale of Dorr land holdings, the Trustees realized that there may well be final assets to be distributed. Dorr's highly ambitious written plans for the estate were put aside. In CANP (page 294) Dorr's objectives are very clearly detailed in two letters (July and September 1941) to NPS Director Arthur Demaray: he hoped that a simple structure could be built to house his books on landscaping, gardening, and classical literature near the Oldfarm propagation nursery. He further fleshed out his intellectual property hopes and implored the Director to meet with him to discuss these aspirations. 9. Initial Trustee plans favored distribution of assets to the Jesup, Abbe Museum, and Beatrix Farrand; later the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations replaced Farrand. Shortly before Peters closed the Dorr estate account on 11/17/1947, he sent a letter to Mary Hale stating that he gave to the Jackson Laboratories "the last odds and ends of books and pictures (all pictures and no books I guess)." This cloudy remark is all we have about the fate of the book collections! And to my best recollection, the JAX library has no documentation as to this gift. 10. In summary, it is my conviction that the contents of Dorr's libraries were valued. Yet they were not a high priority when it came to the value he attached to developing not only Acadia National Park but the diverse cultural institutions on Mount Desert Island. Moreover, he had the confidence in his Trustees that they would represent his interests to the best of their abilities. It may very well be that they knew better than we what importance he attached to his books. What is more important for scholars is that these Trustees rightly attached greater value to the Dorr and Ward family papers and deposited them with the appropriate preservation stewards, leaving to the Jesup the fragmented George Bucknam Dorr Papers. Surely having his own words surpasses the value of a collection of his books! Were it not for the Jesup librarians, the biography of the Father of Acadia National Park could not have been written. Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. Farmington, CT Hadbi Trees Bulletin state Public Library of the City of Boston 9/21/13 Issued Quarterly Series 3.Vol. IX (March 24,1916) 210 September College verse. REED. 4399a.347; *A.7356d.1 Commission-manager plan. WAITE. Colleges. DEMING. 5587.162 5569a.282 Collison, William Henry, Archdeacon of Commissions dv Roy et de Monseigneur Metlakahtla. In the wake of the war l'Admiral, au sieur de Monts, pour l'habi- canoe. A stirring record of forty years' tation és terres de Lacadie, Canada, & successful labour, peril & adventure autres endroits en la nouuelle France. amongst the savage Indian tribes of the A Paris. 1605. [Bar Harbor, Me. 1015.1 Pacific coast [British Columbia] and the 4319a.204 piratical head-hunting Haidas [sic] of the Edited in facsimile by George Bucknam Dorr Queen Charlotte Islands. New York. from the original in the Lenox Library. [1916.] Portraits. Plates. Map. 3539.216 Common conditions. Edited by Tucker Colloids. BURTON. 5965-155 Brooke. New Haven. 1915. Facsimile. Colman, William M. The evidence that [Elizabethan Club reprints. No. 1.] Abraham Lincoln was not born in lawful Q.43.1 wedlock, or the sad story of Nancy This "excellent and pleasant comedic" has been Hanks. [Dallas, Tex. 190-?] attributed, by various writers, to Robert Wilson, oth".50.525.43 Richard Bower and Thomas Preston. Colonial architecture. See ARCHITECTURE, Common Prayer, Book of. Service book: Colonial. being parts of the Book of Common Colonial Dames: Publications. TRAVELS in Prayer set forth for use in the dialect of the American colonies. Edited by New- the Qliyukuwhutana Indians at the Mis- ton D. Mereness. 2368.109 sion of Our Saviour. Tanana. Alaska. Colorado. (Description.) UNION Pacific New York. 1908. 3449a.526 Railway Company. 4478.45 Translated by Jules Louis Prevost. Colorado Valley. (Water supply.) GROVER. CLARKE. 3449-303 3994.20.359 Commons, John Rogers. Races and immi- Colorados Reefs, Cuba. HENDERSON. grants in America. New York. 1916. 7919a.63 Portraits. Plates. Tables. Charts. Color-prints, French. SALAMAN. 4319a.207 *Cab.80.248.7 References cited in footnotes, pp. vil-xiii. Columbia University. Teachers College. Common-sense patriotism. WARDEN. Contributions to education. McDONALD. 2309a.343 Adjustment of school organization to Compagnie Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée. Jura. various population groups. 3592.220.75 Burgundy. Valley of the Rhône. Savoy, MEAD. The relations of general intel- Dauphiny. The Riviera. [Guide-books. ligence to certain mental and physical Paris. 1014?1 Illus., some colored. Maps. traits. 3592.220.76 [Atlas P. L. M.] *4632.19 TRABUE. Completion-test language The P. L. M. guide to the Jura route. scales. 3592.220.77 [Paris. 1914?] Illus. Maps. 4639.64 Columbia University Oriental studies. Comparative religion. JORDAN. 3494-146 FLEMING. The history of Tyre. 3023.66 - TISDALL 3487.197 NESBIT. Sumerian records from Drehem. Compiègne, France. (Views.) HENRY. 3023.62 WALDSTEIN. The evolution of Modern 4099a.225 Hebrew literature. Completion-test language scales. TRABUE. 3023.64 3592.220.77 Columbus, Ohio. (Biography.) LEWIS Comstock, William Ogilvie. Four officers Publishing Company. 4372.121 of the Colonial period in- New York. Colvin, Ian Duncan. The Germans in Eng- Typewritten manuscript. Boston. 1915. land, 1066-1598. London. 1915. Map. Portrait. *4439a.420 Relates to the Hanseatic League. 4519.80 Deals with four members of the Ogilvie family: Colwell, James, and others. A century in Lieutenant George: Midshipman George: Captain the Pacific. London. [1914.] 3044.40 William : Chaplain John. Bibliography, pp. 725-762. Concrete. WATSON. 8012.344 Combustion. HAYS. 8013.303 See also Ferro-concrete construction. Comfort, Will Levington. Child and country. Concrete pavement. AMERICAN Concrete New York. [1916.] 3599a.454 Institute. 8019a.398.5 On the education of children. - SHOOP. *4016.200.2 Commencement days. GLADDEN. 3457.234 Concrete silos. HANSON. 8019a.415 Commerce. PROVIDENCE Magazine. Confession of a hyphenated American. *9381.7452 STEINER. 3579a.138 Commercial Club of Chicago: Publications. Confessions of two brothers. Powys. BURNHAM and BENNETT. Plan of Chicago 4556.118 during MCMVI, MCMVII, and MCM- Congo, French. (Ethnology.) CUREAU. VIII. *L.70.25 3825.80 Commercial education. STEVENS. 3597.240 Connecticut. Governor. A proclamation Commercial mortmain. Dos Passos. [appointing] Fire Prevention Day, Octo- 9338.77285 ber, 1915. Broadside. Hartford. 1915. Commission on Extension Courses. Univer- **G.40.80 sity extension course 1915-16: economics. (Manufactures.) FULLER. 4386.122.1 [Boston. 1915.] 3598.262 Conquest, The, [Fiction.] NYBURG. 48.85 Google Original from UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 999 B582679 J L694 Auction Sale: Tuesday and Wednesday, June 3rd and 4th, 1919 Tuesday at 2 P.M. Wednesday at 10 and 2 CATALOGUE OF BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS BEING DUPLICATES FROM THE Massachusetts Historical Society COMPRISING Town Histories, Genealogies, Early Laws, Journals, Massachusetts Vital Records. 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Sir Archibald Campbell of Inverneill, sometime Prisoner of War in the Jail at Concord, Mass. By Charles H. Walcott. Illustrations. 8° cloth, uncut. Boston (1898) With presentation inscription by the author. 238 CANADA. Commissions du Roi de Monseigneur l'Admiral au sieur de Monts, pour l'habitation és terres de l'Acadie Canada et Autres Endroits en la nouvelle France. 16° boards. Paris, 1605 Fac-simile reprint. Edited by George B. Dorr, Bar Harbor, 1915. Only 125 copies printed. 2 (1919-25) Google Original from UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN FirstSearch: WorldCat Detailed Record Page 1 of 2 FirstSearch x COLGATE UNIV WorldCat Detailed Record Click on a checkbox to mark a record to be e-mailed or printed in Marked Records. Staff View My Account Options Comments Home Databases Searching Results Exit Hide tips List of Records Detailed Record Marked Records Saved Records Go to page WorldCat results for: au: dorr and au: george WorldCat and au: bucknam. Record 3 of 23. 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DIRECTOR R RULES AND REGULATIONS LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK SIEUR DE MONTS SPRING Open all the Year but that office can not fill mail 6 Summer Season June 15 to October 15 WASHINGTON COVERNMENT DOINTING LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK A HISTORICAL SKETCH Our national parks are areas of superlative scenery which are set apart and maintained by the Federal Government for the The use and enjoyment of the people. They are the people's prop- erty; the Government, the people's agent and trustee. Few as yet in number, but covering an extraordinary range of National Parks Portfolio landscape interest, they have all, with a single exception, been formed by setting aside for park purposes lands already held (FOURTH EDITION) in ownership by the United States and lie in the nationally younger regions of the country to the westward of the Mississippi. The single exception is Lafayette National Park, occupying old French territory on the coast of Maine and created in 1919 from A presentation of the national lands collected during the previous decade and presented to the Bound securely parks and national monu- in cloth Government. The name it bears commemorates the great events ments in picture. The selection is One dollar and splendid spirit-the spirit of humanity transcending national from the best work of many pho- bounds-that marked inspiringly the period of its creation. The tographers, professional and amateur. park is unique as a member of the national system in its contact It contains nine chapters descriptive with the ocean and inclusion of nationally owned coastal waters in each of a national park, and one its recreational territory. larger chapter devoted to other parks Lafayette National Park lies surrounded by the sea, occupying and monuments. 270 pages, includ- as its nucleus and central feature the bold range of the Mount Desert ing 310 illustrations. Mountains, whose ancient uplift, worn by immeasurable time and recent ice erosion, remains to form the largest rock-built island q Sent postpaid, upon receipt of price in cash or money order, by the Superintendent on our Atlantic coast; l'Isle des Monts deserts," as Champlain of Documents, Government Printing Office, named it, with the keen descriptive sense of the early French ex- Washington, D. C. plorers. The coast of Maine, like every other boldly beautiful coast region in the world whose origin is nonvolcanic, has been formed by the II flooding of an old and water-worn land surface, which has turned its heights into islands and headlands, its stream courses into arms and reaches of the sea, its broader valleys into bays and gulfs. The Gulf of Maine itself is such an ancient valley, the deep-cut outlet of whose gathered waters may still be traced by soundings between Georges Bank and Nova Scotia, and whose broken and strangely indented coast, 2,500 miles in length from Portland to St. Croix- a straight line distance of less than 200 miles-is simply an ocean- drawn contour line marked on its once bordering upland. 1 4 LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK 5 in the "great harbor of Mount Desert," just off the present town ment's present title to its park lands spring. History is written of Southwest Harbor, which he laid out with his surveyors; he into its deeds. explored the island, noting its fine timber, its water power for During the first half of the nineteenth century Mount Desert Island sawmills, its good harbors, its abundance of wild meadow grass still remained remote and inaccessible, except to coasting vessels, but "high as a man," and of wild peas "-beach peas, perhaps-for fishing hamlets gradually sprang up along its shore, the giant pines fodder, and its wealth of fish in the sea. He had himself rowed whose slowly rotting stumps one comes upon to-day among the lesser up Somes Sound, a glacial fiord which deeply penetrates the island, trees were cut and shipped away, town government was established, cutting its mountain range in two, and which he calls the river, roads of a rough sort were built, and the island connected with the as in that region other inlets of the sea are called to-day, follow- mainland by a bridge and causeway. Then came steam, and all took ing the custom of the early French. And he visited Somes, one on a different aspect. The Boston & Bangor Steamship Line was Begin- of the earliest settlers from the Massachusetts shore, then build- established; a local steamer connected Southwest Harbor with it ing his log cabin at the sound's head where Somesville is to-day, through Eggemoggin Reach and Penobscot Bay, a sail of remarkable and walked across to see a beaver's dam nearby, whose "artificial- ofther beauty; and summer life at Mount Desert began. The first account ness he wonders at. of it we have is contained in a delightful journal kept during a Then came the Revolution. Bernard's stately mansion on the month's stay at Somesville in 1855 by Mr. Charles Tracy, of New shore of Jamaica Pond and his far-off island on the coast of Maine York, the father of Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan, sr., who came with him both were confiscated, he taking the King's side and sailing away as a girl, and which is still preserved. The party was large-26 from Boston Harbor while the bells were rung in jubilation. And in all-and filled Somes's Tavern full to overflowing. In it, besides Mount Desert Island, once the property of the Crown of France, Mr. Tracy and his family, were the Rev. Dr. Stone, of Brookline, once of that of England, and twice granted privately, became again Mass., with his family; Frederick Church, the artist, and his sister; the property of Massachusetts. But after the war was over and and Theodore Winthrop, killed afterward in the Civil War, who Bernard had died in England, his son, John Bernard, petitioned to wrote John Brent, with its once famous description of a horse. They have his father's ownership of the island restored to him, claiming climbed the mountains, tramped through the woods, lost themselves to have been loyal himself to the colony, and a one-half undivided at night-half a dozen of them-and slept by a campfire in the wild; interest in it was given him. Then, shortly after, came the grand- drove over to Bar Harbor, then on to Schooner Head, where they daughter of Cadillac-Marie de Cadillac, as she signed herself-and slept at the old farmhouse, climbing the then nameless mountain her husband, French refugees of the period, bringing letters from with the cliff" that shadowed it at sundown, and drinking by the Lafayette, and petitioned in turn the General Court of Massachusetts pitcherful such milk as New York could not supply; and then, like to grant them her grandfather's possession of the island-asking it Hans Breitman, in climax to their stay they gave a party, importing not as of legal right but on a ground of sentiment, the gratitude of by the boat to Southwest Harbor the first piano the island had ever the colonies to France for assistance given in their- War for Inde- seen and inviting to it the islanders and fisherfolk from far and pendence. And the General Court, honoring their claim, gave them near. It was a great success. They danced, they sang songs, they the other undivided half. Then it sent surveyors down and divided played games, and had a lobster salad such as only millionaires can the island, giving the western portion, including the town of South- have to-day, keeping up their gayety until 2 o'clock in the morning, west Harbor his father had laid out, to John Bernard, who promptly when their last guests-two girls from Bar Harbor who had driven sold it and went out to England and died governor of one of the themselves over for it-hitched up their horse and left for home in West Indies, being also knighted; and the castern half, where spite of remonstrance and the offer of a bed. Such was the beginning Cadillac once had lived and where Bar Harbor, Seal, and Northeast of Mount Desert social life. Harbors are to-day, to Marie de Cadillac and her husband-M. and Ten years later, when the Civil War had swept over like a storm, Mme. de Gregoire-who came to Hulls Cove, on Frenchmans Bay, summer life began in earnest at Bar Harbor, compelled by the sheer and lived and died there, selling, piece by piece, their lands to beauty of the spot. No steamer came to it till 1868; then, for another settlers. It is from these two grants made by the Commonwealth season, only once a week. No train came nearer than Bangor, 50 of Massachusetts to the granddaughter of Cadillac and the son of miles away, with a rough road between. But still it grew by leaps Bernard, each holding originally by a royal grant, that the Govern- and bounds, overflowing the native cottages and fishermen's huts, 6 LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK 7 lobster. The native cottages expanded and became hotels, simple, lachian forest which at the landing of De Monts stretched without bare, and rough, but always full. The life was gay and free and a break from the St. Lawrence to the Gulf and is the oldest, by wholly out of doors-boating, climbing, picnicking, buckboarding, the record of the rocks, and richest in existing species of any min- and sitting on the rocks with book or friend. All was open to gled hardwood and coniferous forest in the temperate zone. And wander over or picnic on; the summer visitor possessed the island. it possesses, also, a rich biologic field in the neighboring ocean, the Then lands were bought, summer homes were made, and life of a parent habitat of life. Deeper waters apart, the sea beach and new kind began. tidal pools alone form an infinite source of interest and study, while It was from the impulse of that early summer life that the move- the ocean climate, like the land one, is profoundly different from ment for public reservations and the national park arose, springing that to the southward, off the Cape Cod shore. from memory of its pleasantness and the desire to preserve in largest To take advantage of this opportunity an association has been measure possible the beauty and freedom of the island for the people's formed, incorporated under the name of the Wild Gardens of Acadia, need in years to come. The park, as a park, is still in its beginning. to cooperate with the Government in the development of the educa- When first accepted by the President as a national monument it con- tional and scientific features of the park and its environment. By tained, by estimate, 5,000 acres; now what it contains and what has means of it a marine biological laboratory has been established on been secured in recent years for its extension and the Government's the shore, material has been gathered for a book upon the wild flowers acceptance, taken together, amount fully to three times that acreage, of the park and wild gardens for their exhibition started, entomolog- and stretch across Somes Sound to include the western peaks and a ical collections have been made, and studies in the bird life and geol- wide frontage on the shore. Its lands have been throughout a gift ogy of the region. Plans are in the making for a museum to house to the Government, coming from many sources, and much personal association is linked, closely and inseparably, with its formation. Abbe collections, already made in part, of Indian implements found along. the shore, of maps and early charts and various historical material, It is still growing, and with the contiguous, landlocked ocean waters, of marine and other faunal specimens, and plant herbaria. The beautiful as lakes and nationally owned like it, to extend out onto, park itself is a living natural history museum, a geological and his- there is no limit to the number to whom it may give rest and pleasure toric area explained by the nature guide and lecture service which is in the future, coming from our crowded eastern cities, from which rapidly becoming a feature in our national parks. it is accessible by land or water, rail or motor car. Botanically Lafayette National Park forms an exceedingly inter- esting area. Champlain's term "deserts" in description of the A WILD-LIFE SANCTUARY mountains meant, in accordance with the original significance of One important aspect of our national parks and monuments is the word, "wild and solitary" not "devoid of vegetation." Vege- that they-unlike the forests, devised to follow economic lines-are tation, on the contrary, grows upon the island with exceptional absolute sanctuaries, islands of shelter for the native life in all vigor, and in wide range of form. The native forest must-before but noxious forms. Like the monasteries in the Middle Ages that it was invaded by the axe-have been superb, and superb it will sheltered-all too fragmentarily-the literature and learning of again become under the Government's protection. Wild flowers are the classic period, they are a means of incalculable value for pre- abundant in their season, among them a number of species of con- serving in this destructive time the wealth of forms and species spicuous beauty, because of their loveliness in danger of extermina- we have inherited from the past and have a duty to hand on un- tion until the national park was formed and its lands became a diminished to the future, SO far as that be possible. sanctuary. The rocks, frost split and lichen-clad, with granite In this aspect of a wild-life sanctuary, plant and animal, La- sands between, are of a character that makes the mountain tops, fayette National Park is remarkable. Land and sea, woodland, with their bearberries and blueberries and broad ocean outlook, lake, and mountain all are represented in it in wonderful concen- wild rock gardens of inspiring beauty, while both mountain tops tration. In it, too, the northern and temperate zone floras meet and woods are made accessible by over a hundred miles of trails and overlap, and land climate meets sea climate, each tempering built by successive generations of nature-loving summer visitors. the other. It lies directly in the coast migration route of birds In addition to ocean, rocks, and mountain heights, to woods and and exhibits at its fullest the Acadian forest, made famous by wers, and to trails trodden by the feet of generations, Evangeline, and the northernmost extension of that great Appa- LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK 9 8 LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK INFORMATION Lafayette National Park has a rich possession in an inexhaustible spring source of pure, delicious water rising-cool and constant- The office of Lafayette National Park is situated at Bar Harbor, from beneath the mountain at the entrance from Bar Harbor, and Me., on the corner of Main Street and Park Road, opposite the made, with its free gift of water to the passing public, a memorial Athletic Field. It is open daily except Sundays from 9 o'clock a. m. to the Sieur de Monts, the founder of Acadia. to 5 o'clock p. m. during the summer season, from June 15 to October 15; at other seasons, until 4 o'clock. ROADS The Bar Harbor Information Bureau immediately adjoins it upon A road of great beauty through the lake district of the park, con- Main Street, and is prepared to furnish visitors with all information necting Bar Harbor with the resorts upon the southern shore, Seal concerning train service and boat service, motor routes, fares, hotels and Northeast Harbors, has been opened to travel. Rising from this, and boarding houses, objects of interest, trails, and excursions, or to another road upon which work has lately been commenced is planned answer correspondence. Maps of Mount Desert Island, issued by to reach the summit of Cadillac Mountain, the highest point in the the United States Geological Survey and literature relating to the park range or on our eastern coast, replacing an early buckboard road park and to the history and natural history of its region may be ob- now washed away. Roads giving entrance to the park upon the tained from the office or the information bureau. northern or Bar Harbor side, with parking space for those who wish The superintendent of the park is George B. Dorr, to whom all to use the mountain trails, are under construction, as is also a system correspondence relating to the park should be addressed. of roads for use with horses which, when complete, will open other and wide sections of the park to a use that will recall the past, HOW TO REACH THE PARK preserving what the motor road has lost. Lafayette National Park may be reached by automobile, by rail- MOTOR TRAVEL road, or by steamship. Visitors coming by rail are taken to Mount Desert Ferry, at the head of Frenchmans Bay, and thence across No place in the East offers an objective point of greater interest the bay, an 8-mile sail over beautiful and quiet waters, to Bar Harbor. for motor travel than Lafayette National Park and its surrounding For the motorist, Mount Desert Island is connected with the main- coast resorts, which provide accommodations for its visitors. This land by a recently constructed steel and concrete drawbridge, termi- travel is already great, coming from all eastern and central sections nus of the Lafayette Highway connecting Bangor on the Atlantic of the country. Opportunity for motor camping is provided in the Highway with Bar Harbor and the National Park. The road is park, and there are excellent stores, repair shops, and garages within excellent. One may also motor to Rockland, at the entrance to easy reach. FISHING Penobscot Bay, and take the sail thence to Bar Harbor or to North- east or Southwest Harbors, with car aboard. Lafayette National Park combines the opportunity for excellent The trip to the park may be made also by sea from Boston, by the fishing in fresh waters, of lake and stream, with that for deep-sea and boats of the Eastern Steamship Line running to Bangor, with coastal fishing in waters identical in life and character with those of change at Rockland. the famous banks which lie offshore from it, across the Gulf of Maine. Power boats, sail boats, canoes, and camping outfits can all be rented, with competent guides. MOTOR AND BOAT TRIPS From the park as center a wide variety of interesting motor trips, along the coast as far as to the Maritime Provinces and inland to Moosehead Lake and Mount Katahdin, can readily be made, and excellent cars for the purpose can be hired by visitors not coming in their own. From it also delightful trips by water can be made over island-sheltered reaches of the sea, extending from Frenchmans Bay to Penobscot Bay and River along the most beautiful section of our Atlantic coast. IN 1932 THE HOME GEOGRAPHIC MONTHLY (v. 2, #1) PUB LISHED AN ARTICLE BY GEORGE B. DORR TITLED "ACADIA, THE SEACOAST PARK.' Pp. 43-48. This publication was established by Home Geographic Society of Worcester, Mass., an "educational institution" founded by a host of academics affiliated with Harvard, Columbia, and Clark University among others. Fairfield Osborne., President of the American Museum of Natural History, was an incorporator as well. Its purpose was "to create and promote interest in geography among achildren; to promote friendly and sympathetic relations among the children of the world; to assemble and distribute geographic materials, slides, films, specimens, etc " This article is not written strictly for a juvenile audience and the publication "is SO rich in interesting information and educational value that everyon e, shild or sdult, fiinds it readable and engrossing." Model? National Geographic Magazine . Source: Frances LaCourse. Aunt of Ardra Tarbell, NPS park office employee of Mr. Dorr. May 2006 COMMISSIONS DV Roy et) de Monfeigneur I' Admiral, au freur de Monts, pour l'habi- tation és terres de Lacadie Canada, O autres en- droits en la nouuelle France. Enfemble les defenfes premieres & fecon- des à tousautres , de trafiquer auec les Sauuages defdites terres. Auec la verification en la Cour de Parlement a paris. ne AR @ A PARIS 1605. 3 NOTE T HE two Commissions here faithfully reproduced, by photographic process, from one of the few extant copies of the original pub- lication of 1605 - that owned by the Lenox Library - record, in striking words, an historic episode of prime importance, the attempted colonization by the French - under the title of New France - of the M D V R OY country later called New England, together with the whole vast terri- E T D E MONSEIGNEVR tory lying to its north and west. The attempt was made, successively, by two noble gentlemen of France, gallant soldiers and warm personal l'Admiral, au fieur de Monts, pour friends of Henry of Navarre, Henry the Fourth of France. Of these l'habitation és terres de Lacadie the first was Aymar de Chastes, governor of Dieppe, to whom the Canada, & autres endroits King owed a debt of deep gratitude for support given in a time of en la nouuelle France. greatest need. The second, to whom the King entrusted the enterprise upon de Chastes's untimely death, was Pierre de Guast, Sieur de Enserable les defenses premieres 6 Secondesa tous entres, Monts and governor of Pons, to whom the present commissions were de trafiquer auer les Sawsages defdites terres. issued by the King and his High Admiral Charles de Montmorency on the 18th of December, 1603. The enterprise failed, after a gal- Auccla verification en is Cont de Patlement 3 Paris. lant struggle on the part of the Sieur de Monts - aided by Cham- plain, who came out with him as pilot and geographer, and other friends - but it was largely and well conceived, and bravely striven E N R Y par la grace de for. Had it succeeded, carried out in times less troubled, it might Dieu Roy de France & well be that France, not England, would have controlled the des- de Nauarre, A noftre tiny and development of our northern country, and possibly of North cher & bien amé le fieur America itself through its control of the St. Lawrence basin and the great Mississippi waterway. That England succeeded where France deMonts, Gentilhomme failed was due not to far-sighted policy or commercial enterprise, but ordinaire de noftre chá- to the sturdy will for religious self-expression of the New England colonists, ready to make every worldly sacrifice for freedom to wor- bre, Salut. Comme no- ship according to their high though narrow sense of truth and right, fire plus grand foing & trauail foit & aft GEORGE BUCKNAM DORR. autiours efté, depuis noftre aduenement BAR HARBOR, MAINE, 1915. Acelle Couronne, de la maintenir & con- terner en fon antienne dignité, grandeur This Edition is limited to 125 copies of which this is No.66 A (plendeur, d'eftendre& amplifier autant gitimement le peut faire, les bornes Aij DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT June 15, 1922. Dear Mr. Eaton: I shall be glad to do anything I can to supply you with information concerning our undertaking here. The Sieur de Monts National Monument became a national park, under the title of Lafayette National Park, in February, 1919. It now takes rank as the only national park in the eastern Uni ted States, apart from war memorials. The land has been, throughout, a gift to the Government for the benefit of the people, but Congress makes annual appropriation for it as for its other parks. It has its office at Bar Harbor. The extent of the park is much greater than it was when the lands were first accepted by the Government and is increasing steadily by further gifts. All this land now constitutes an absolute sanctuary for wild life, protected by Government rangers. Its character is such - mountainous and well wooded, with lakes and streams, and lying on the border between sea and land in the coast migration route of birds - as to fit it for wild life in many and various forms. In connection with this, a biological laboratory was established last year on land secured by me for such purpose a number 01 years ago on the northern shore of the Island, at Salisbury Cove, and I am enclosing you a pamphlet issued to announce its establishment, having none more recent at hand. belt, 2. With regard to publications relating to the park, each national park is allowed to print at the Government's expense one publica- tion only, containing with other matter its rules and regulations. Of this, which contains an article which I wrote originally for Appalachia, the journal of the Appalachian Mountain Club, I enclose a rew copies. Should you want others, my office can furnish you with any number you may desire, it being printed by the Government r'or free distribution. The earlier publications that I made as part of my campaign IOr the park's establish- ment were printed in small editions only, and are now mainly out of print. I have others now in press which will be obtainable from the park office when printed, at a price to cover cost, and this I shall be glad to have you state as well as the fact of the free distribution of the Rules and Regulations paper and that my office - the office of Lafayette National Park - will gladly answer any letters that may be written it or any questions asked. Quote what you will from Mr. LaFarge's letter, giving him credit only - as I have done. Please write if I can do more to help you. Yours sincerely, The publications will go rorward under Group B. Worr separate cover. G.B. Dorr Research - Sent - Verizon Yahoo! Mail Page 1 of 1 Verizon Yahoo Mail Venzon Central Yahoo Search: Web Search Welcome, eppster2@verizon.net Mail Home Tutorials Help YAHOO! [Sign Out,Member Center] verizon MAIL Classic Mail Contacts Calendar Notepad What's New? Mobile Mail Options Check Mail Compose Search Mail Search the Web Previous Next Back to Messages Mark as Unread I Print Folders [Add Edit] Delete Reply Forward Move. Inbox Drafts (7) G.B. Dorr Research Tuesday, September 30, 2008 10:19 AM Sent From: "ELIZABETH and RONALD EPP" Spam [Empty] To: "Donald Lenahan" Trash [Empty] My Folders [Hide] Dear Don, DorrBio2008 (33) I'd like to take you up on your offer to check out some articles that may have appeared in the Bar Harbor Times on the microfilm in Jesup Library. Eliz messages (6) Horseshoe Pond 1. The first half of Dorr's Story of Acadia National Park appeared in January 1942 under the title of Acadia National Park. Can you find a review of it in the January to March issues. My suspicion is that it will not be reviewed locally but may have been reviewed in the Bangor papers since it was printed by Burr Member Informa Printing Company of Bangor. Ron Archives (31) 2. In early July 1944 Dorr's assistant Grace Oakes died. There should be an obit for her later that month and it would be helpful since I have conflicting accounts of her official title and responsibilities. Search Shortcuts My Photos 3. Ben Hadley reports in a letter to Judge Peters (2/11/46) that he asked the Times to print later that week an account of the renaming of Dry/Flying Squadron Mountain to Dorr Mountain. Might there also have been an editorial on this issue? My Attachments 4.On August 29, 1947 a Dedication of the George Bucknam Dorr Memorial ceremony was held at Sieur de Mont and photographed by Sargent Collier. I thought had checked the Times earlier for their account of this event but cannot locate anything in my chronology files. Would you please check this? I would be very interested in their take on the issue since I think the ceremony not likely to have been covered by the Ellsworth and Bangor papers. Of course you know that two months later the memorial was destroyed in the fire of '47. The Trustee records indicate that money was raised for the current memorial but again I don't know when that was installed (Summer of '48 I suppose) and whether it received media coverage. Let me know how you fare with this inquiry. I'm now working through the Peters Papers on the Dorr Memorial and should be done by Friday. I'll then copy everything about the memorial design, inscription, and construction pertinent to your interests and send them off to you. Do you need a copy of the HCTPR booklet titled "Dedication of the George Bucknam Dorr Memorial"? Thanks again ! Ronald H. Epp Ph.D. 47 Pond View Drive Merrimack, NH 03054 (603) 424-6149 eppster2@verizon.net On Sun, 9/28/08, Donald Lenahan wrote: From: Donald Lenahan Subject: Re: Dorr's Ashes To: eppster2@verizon.net Date: Sunday, September 28, 2008, 1:42 PM That's a great find, Ron! That's indeed the location had concluded from the Dorr probate data. In fact was talking to some folks last night at a party that was strong on the Champlain/Beaver Dam Pool area because of the Bicycle Path and his feelings for his mother. Thanks, Don Delete Reply Forward Move. Previous Next Back to Messages Select Message Encoding I Full Headers Check Mail Compose Search Mail Search the Web Copyright © 2008 Yahoo! Inc. 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