Creating AcadiaNNal Park - Book Reviews 5/25/2016 Acadia National Park - Evolving Dorr I Down East Magazine ACADIA 100 No. 9 It took a starry-eyed aristocrat to transform exclusive MDI into a shared national treasure. By Kathryn Miles http://downeast.com/acadia-evolving-dorr/ 2/9 5/25/2016 Acadia National Park - Evolving Dorr I Down East Magazine O na warm August day in 1901, a dozen guests made their way into the ACADIA music room of rusticator DownEast Caroline Bristol's MDI cottage. Their SPECIAL COLLECTOR'S EDITION host, Harvard University 100 President Charles TIPS, SECRETS, W. Eliot, had been IND WAYS TO LOVE MAINE'S CLASSIC clear in his invite: NATIONAL PARK this meeting was urgent. Already, the new century had brought with it immeasurable challenges: political unrest overseas, economic turmoil, rapid development that threatened the country's wild spaces. In cities like New York and Philadelphia, the tenements could barely hold the (http://downeast.com/june-2016/) influx of See more from this Special Collector's Edition! impoverished immigrants and recently unemployed agricultural workers. The United States, Eliot told his guests, was a country in need of healing. And Eliot knew how to heal it. The patrician university president had inherited a love of the outdoors from his late son, a pioneering landscape architect, and had experienced firsthand the cathartic benefits of the country's national parks: Yosemite, Yellowstone, Mount Rainier. But they were all out of reach for America's working class, most of whom dwelt on the Eastern Seaboard. What the country needed, Eliot felt, was a natural wonderland more accessible to the urban masses, and he was certain that Mount Desert Island was that place. Call it Crazy Idea #1: the notion that access to wild places can make Americans better and stronger. That afternoon in the music room, Eliot and his guests hatched Crazy Idea #2: they would simply ask the island's wealthiest landowners to give up parcels of their land so the hoi polloi could come enjoy it - eventually, as a national park. Eight of Eliot's guests agreed to form a board to oversee the effort, and Eliot chose George Buckingham Dorr to serve as the organization's de facto head. On the surface, Dorr seemed like an odd choice to spearhead such an egalitarian campaign. He was a quintessential Boston Brahmin, born into a textile fortune and a life of privilege. His outdoor interests were founded on his love of grand European gardens, and his family had built one of MDI's immense summer cottages. http://downeast.com/acadia-evolving-dorr/ 3/9 5/25/2016 Acadia National Park Evolving Dorr I Down East Magazine But Eliot saw more to the 47-year-old Dorr. The Eliots and the Dorrs had summered together on MDI since George's childhood, and Eliot, born with a conspicuous birthmark on his cheek, had always felt a fellow underdog's affinity for the bookish boy, who spoke with a severe stutter. After Dorr graduated from Harvard, Eliot had tasked the young aristocrat with overseeing the expansion of Harvard Yard and the school's centenary celebration of Ralph Waldo Emerson. In both instances, Dorr had excelled as a leader. What's more, Dorr was a year-round MDI resident, and Eliot, who spent nine months of the year back in Boston, banked on his protégé's social connections. Wisely, it turned out: Dorr proved gifted at fundraising and PR and was a genius at political negotiation. He used his upper-crust credentials to glide into closed-door meetings and arrange hearings with senior officials. He schmoozed land donations and sales from his well-to-do neighbors. When World War I shifted Congress's priorities away from conservation and public lands, Dorr personally persuaded President Woodrow Wilson to use executive authority to confer national monument status instead. "This was one of America's first major experiments in philanthropic giving," says Ronald Epp, author of the new Dorr biography Creating Acadia National Park(http://www.acadiacentennial2016.org/merchandise/creating-acadia-national-park-the-biography-of-george- bucknam-dorr/). "The land in question was held by the elite. Dorr was able to nudge away parcels of land and convince them that they could donate that land without posing a threat to their way of life - and he had the vision to see how those parcels could be connected into a park available to everyone, regardless of their class. He democratized the island." If Dorr forever changed MDI, the island's wildness also changed Dorr. By the 1910s, he'd abandoned early visions of rose gardens and pony cart trails and instead wrote eloquently about the dangers of extinction and resource scarcity, even suggesting that wild places have spiritual value transcending these considerations. "Save your woods, not only because they are one of your great natural resources," he wrote, "but also because they are a source of beauty which once lost can never be recovered." He knew when to wield his privilege and when to walk away from it: Dorr served as the park's first superintendent until he died nearly penniless in 1944, having all but bankrupted himself in his quest to preserve MDI's wild beauty, buying parcel after parcel for donation to the National Park Service. Once an awkward young blueblood, Dorr became, in old age, a contented and much-beloved sage of nature and simplicity - proving that wild places can be not only restorative, but also transformative. Call that Crazy Idea #3. Illustration by Christine Mitchell Adams See more from the Acadia Special Collector's Edition!(http://downeast.com/june- 2016/) http://downeast.com/acadia-evolving-dorr/ 4/9 /Arts Sec SECTION 2 OF 3 Mount Desert Islander THURSDAY, MARCH 31 Life of aquie Dorr biography illuminates a life of service CRP Review by Earl Brechlin Savage, Frederick Law ebrechlin@mdislander.com Olmstead Jr. and Beatrix Farrand, but also of rep- ithout question, resentatives of the year- Acadia National round community with- Park as it is known AC out whose work Aca- today would not exist without dia might never have the tireless work of George gotten off the ground. Bucknam Dorr. But as his bi- They include attorney ographer Ron Epp so skillfully and later judge Luere NATIO reveals in his new book "Creat- Deasy, lawyer Albert ing Acadia National Park, the Lynam, U.S. Rep. and Biography of George Bucknam later judge John A. Dorr," much of what we hold Peters and early As- RON dear today on Mount Desert sistant Superintendent Island, and many of this com- munity's leading civic institu- Ronald Epp Benjamin Hadley. So too, does Epp's tions, probably would not exist narrative weave in the as well - if not for a lifetime of Kebo Valley Golf Course, the contributions of such The work by Dorr, a genteel Boston MDI Biological Laboratory, notable path find- Brahmin. The Jackson Laboratory, the ers, trail builders and George The list of institutions and Abbe Museum, the Appala- map makers as Wal- agencies which he helped chian Mountain Club Camp, dron Bates, Herbert found and was involved in Schoodic and the Acadia Cor- Jacques and Edward from the start is long, and in its poration. Rand. entirety, an equally impressive As Acadia celebrates its cen- Along with COV- accomplishment. It includes tennial year, it is nigh time for ering the at-times the Hancock County Trustees the entire story of Dorr's life fi- seemingly impos- for Public Reservations, the nally to be told. Epp, historian sible task of stitch- Wild Gardens of Acadia, the and consultant to producer ing together land Jesup Library, the Bar Harbor Ken Burns' documentary "The on MDI and at Sc- Athletic Fields, the Village National Parks: America's Best hoodic into a single Improvement Association, Idea," adeptly takes what could reserve, "Creating the Building of the Arts, the be a dry and academic subject Acadia National Bar Harbor Water Company, and infuses it with life and Park," also light. He does so by sharing focuses ap- with us the entire universe of propri- philanthronic and mind ately on 4/1/2016 "hife of a Quiet Giant." Earl Brechlin Dorr biography illuminates a life of service - Mount Desert Islander Without question, Acadia National Park as it is known today would not exist without the tireless work of George Bucknam Dorr. But as his biographer Ron Epp so skillfully reveals in his new book CREATING "Creating Acadia National Park, the Biography of George Bucknam Dorr," much of what we hold dear ACADIA today on Mount Desert Island, and many of this community's leading civic institutions, probably would not exist as well - if not for a lifetime of work by Dorr, a genteel Boston Brahmin. NATIONAL PARK RONALD H. EPP The list of institutions and agencies which he helped found and was involved in from the start is long, The Registry and in its entirety, an equally impressive accomplishment. It includes the Hancock County Trustees George Bucknavis Don for Public Reservations, the Wild Gardens of Acadia, the Jesup Library, the Bar Harbor Athletic Fields, the Village Improvement Association, the Building of the Arts, the Bar Harbor Water Company, Kebo Valley Golf Course, the MDI Biological Laboratory, The Jackson Laboratory, the Abbe Museum, the Appalachian Mountain Club Camp, Schoodic and the Acadia Corporation. As Acadia celebrates its centennial year, it is nigh time for the entire story of Dorr's life finally to be told. Epp, historian and consultant to producer Ken Burns' documentary "The National Parks: America's Best Idea," adeptly takes what could be a dry and academic subject and infuses it with life and light. He does so by sharing with us the entire universe of philanthropic and civic-minded personalities that - together with the men who also are considered the park's cofounders, Charles W. Elliot and John D. Rockefeller Jr. - laid the foundations for one of the most enviable places to live and recreate in the country. Perhaps most welcome is Epp's inclusion of not just the summer families, with familiar names such as Stebbins, How, Kennedy and Vanderbilt, and design luminaries such as Fred Savage, Frederick Law Olmstead Jr. and Beatrix Farrand, but also of representatives of the year-round community without whose work Acadia might never have gotten off the ground. They include attorney and later judge Luere Deasy, lawyer Albert Lynam, U.S. Rep. and later judge John A. Peters and early Assistant Superintendent Benjamin Hadley. So too, does Epp's narrative weave in the contributions of such notable path finders, trail builders and map makers as Waldron Bates, Herbert Jacques and Edward Rand. Along with covering the at-times seemingly impossible task of stitching together land on MDI and at Schoodic into a single reserve, "Creating Acadia National Park," also focuses appropriately on what was going in Washington, D.C. Passages dealing with the relationships Dorr held with conservation icons such as Stephen Mather and Horace Albright were especially enlightening. Epp also provides the political and economic background and does not downplay how the societal paradigm shifts that characterized those times helped shape events. Sleuthing out details of Dorr's early family life and motivations was not easy. And though Dorr's thought processes have in some ways been preserved in the thousands of letters he sent to others, little actual impartial material on Dorr exists. Epp, who spent years working on this book, could locate only one formal interview of Dorr by a journalist. And of course, it focuses on the park, not on him. http://www.mdislander.com/living/arts-a-living/dorr-biography-illuminates-life-service# 2/4 4/1/2016 Dorr biography illuminates a life of service- Mount Desert Islander Epp's exhaustive, methodical and impressively thorough research manages to pull the details of this extraordinary life together, from Dorr's early years growing up among the luminaries of "The Hub," as early Boston was known, to his studies at Harvard and later into an adult life of privilege, traveling the world, being involved in academia, but never really settling on a career or longing for marriage and a more domestic existence. Particularly engrossing are snippets of Dorr as a regular person when he strayed from the expected arc of the life of someone who would have such a profound impact on conservation and on MDI. Readers will come to know Dorr the man, not only his triumphs and generosity, but also his frailties, his blind spots and ultimately, his humanity. Passages noting Dorr's willingness to defy directives from Washington when he Ron Epp became Acadia's first superintendent also help document his single-minded determination to first do what needed to be done to make the shared vision for the park a reality. Those wishing for a scholarly telling of the tale of Dorr's life through his death at age 90 while he was still in office as superintendent will not be disappointed. Epp's endnotes are voluminous and comprehensive. But space devoted to endnotes does not tell the full story of how deeply researched and masterfully written "Creating Acadia National Park" is. The storyline flows so well and the cast of supporting characters is so well explained, producing a singularly easy-to-read book with its accessible presentation and an unimperious style. What many lovers of MDI and Acadia know of the park's founding comes from what Epp respectfully calls Dorr's own "monograph," "The Story of Acadia." Much of what we all know about Dorr often stems from Sargent Collier's 1964 book "The Triumph of George B. Dorr: Father of Acadia National Park." At 63 pages, it was a good overview of and proper salute to what Dorr accomplished. But in just under 400 pages, plus a section of vintage photos, Epp's "Creating Acadia National Park, The Biography of George Bucknam Dorr" puts the man, the myth and the legends all in stunning perspective. It shares what his drive, his dedication and his spirit meant not just to Acadia but to all of Mount Desert Island as well. "Creating Acadia National Park, The Biography of George Bucknam Dorr" is published by Friends of Acadia and is available in bookstores and online. Islander. 3/31/16 Dorr biographer to speak at Jesup BAR HARBOR Ron Epp, author of "Creating Acadia National Park, The Biography of George Bucknam Dorr," is scheduled to appear at the Jesup Memorial Library on Thursday, April 7, at 6:30 p.m. Friends of Acadia, the publisher of the biography, and the Jesup are cohosting this park centennial event. http://www.mdislander.com/living/arts-a-living/dorr-biography-illuminates-life-service# 3/4 4/1/2016 Dorr biography illuminates a life of service - Mount Desert Islander Epp is a historian and professor who served as a consultant for the Ken Burns documentary "The National Parks: America's Best Idea." His research over the last two decades into the Massachusetts families that influenced the development of conservation philanthropy has resulted in numerous talks and publications for Acadia National Park, Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations, Mount Desert Island Historical Society and many other organizations. Books will be on sale that night from Sherman's Books with a portion of the proceeds being donated to Friends of Acadia and the Jesup. Call 288-4245 or kchagnon@jesuplibrary.org. Bio lill Latest Posts Earl Brechlin Editor at Mount Desert Islander Islander editor Earl Brechlin first discovered Mount Desert Island 35 years ago and never left. The author of seven guide and casual history books, he is a Registered Maine Guide and has served as president of the Maine and New England Press Associations. He and his wife live in Bar Harbor. ebrechlin@mdislander.com SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BUSINESSES Port Harbor Marine Mount Desert Island Real Maine Coast Heritage 23 Main Road Estate Trust Holden, ME 04429 988 Crooked Road P.O. Box 669 Mount Desert, ME 04660 (207) 989-5840 Bar Harbor, ME 04609 207-244-5100 (207) 288-8008 http://www.mdislander.com/living/arts-a-living/dorr-biography-illuminates-life-service# 4/4 5/18/2016 Who is George Dorr? 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"And when I asked questions about the beginning of the park, the phrase that came out again Hotel Regal and again was, 'Oh, that was George Dorr." $999.00 Save 50% + Free But no one could tell Epp much about this mysterious "Father of Acadia," the co- Shipping! founder and first superintendent of Acadia National Park, a man whose Serta namesake graces one of the park's highest peaks and is memorialized in island granite at the park's famous Sieur de Monts Spring. "I became interested in Dorr from the very beginning because his name was the name that kept coming back to me when I asked questions," Epp explained. "It was, 'Well, this was done because Dorr wanted it that way' or 'This was named such-and-such because Mr. Dorr named it' or 'This path came into being because Mr. Dorr led the trail crew that made it.' "People knew about what Dorr did here, but they didn't know about Dorr before he came here," Epp continued. "So what intrigued me was what resources, what background, what temperament and what values he brought to this place that led him in the direction that today people applaud." Upon further investigation, Epp discovered that while several books had been written about George B. Dorr, no one had ever written a complete biography about the man. Many details of Dorr's life had slipped through the cracks of time and could very well be lost - unless a skilled historian could dig them up. So Epp rolled up his sleeves and started to do some digging. Now, after about 15 years of research and writing, Epp is celebrating the completion and publication of "Creating Acadia National Park: The Biography of George Bucknam Dorr," a 393-page book released April 1, just in time for the Acadia's 2016 Centennial celebration. Epp wrote the book for a general audience, to be read and enjoyed by anyone who has an interest in the history of Acadia and Mount Desert Island, as well as the formation of the National Park System and American Conservation Movement. The detailed account of Dorr's life, which features 40 pages of footnotes, is sure to be a valuable resource for generations to come. The biography was published by Friends of Acadia, a nonprofit organization founded in 1986 that works to preserve, protect and promote stewardship in the park. "To see that come to fruition and that I'm alive at the end to see and feel some of the impact the book has on other people is so rewarding," Epp, 73, said. In reconstructing the life of the Father of Acadia, Epp unearthed details from some of the most peripheral sources - the diaries of Dorr's family members and friends, letters to acquaintances and documents buried in the vast archives of Harvard University in Boston and The Rockefeller Archive Center in New York. "Letters still ring with a certain emotional authority, especially in this era when SO little letter writing is done," Epp said. "You find people expressing their emotions in the most intimate sort of ways in letters." One of Epp's goals in writing the biography was to better understand Dorr and, more specifically, the reasons why Dorr devoted SO much of his time and resources - essentially the last four decades of his life and all of his fortune - to the creation of Acadia National Park. To do that, Epp reached back generations http://bangordailynews.com/2016/04/07/outdoors/who-is-george-dorr-discovering-the-father-of-acadia-2/ 3/7 5/18/2016 Who is George Dorr? Discovering the 'Father of Acadia' - Outdoors - Bangor Daily News - BDN Maine to find a philosophy of philanthropy that was passed down through Dorr's family and instilled in him at an early age. He also looked to Dorr's own writing, in which he also looked to the future, as all conservationists do. "The population of the future must inevitably be many times the population of the present," predicted Dorr, quoted by Epp in the biography, "and the need of conserving now, while there is time, pleasant, wholesome breathing spaces for those coming multitudes is great." Dorr believed it was of paramount importance to conserve "the places where the influence of Nature may be felt the most [or] observed and studied in its fullest." On MDI, he wasn't alone in his thinking. Fellow Bostonian Charles W. Eliot and wealthy philanthropist John D. Rockefeller of New York worked with Dorr in the early 1900s to conserve land on MDI through private land acquisitions through the Hancock County Trustees of Private Reservations, one of the country's first land trusts. Epp refers to these three men - Dorr, Eliot and Rockefeller - as "the Acadia triumvirate." "You come away from these three men with this sense of almost a kind of thankfulness that you've been able to enter their lives, that you're somehow walking among these conservation giants," Epp said. Because of the efforts of these three men, in 1916 - 100 years ago - President Woodrow Wilson accepted what today is the first parcel of Acadia National Park, the 5,000-acre Sieur de Monts Spring National Monument. And Dorr kept on working, expanding the park through land acquisitions, often depleting his own resources. "It was hard living for the last 15 years of his life because whenever a little bit of money would come his way, he'd buy more land and then legally obliged it to the national park" Epp said. "So some people thought that he lost his grip of things because he continued this at his own expense. "But people do that for sport endeavors," Epp pointed out. "They do that to make more money. They do that because they've become obsessed with scientific advancement. He was just consumed with this notion of growing the park." Today, Acadia National Park, which comprises more than 47,000 acres, is the only national park created entirely of donated private land. "Hopefully I'm offering to readers not only a book about Acadia, but a book about what Acadia is a party of, and that's a much larger thing called the National Park Service," Epp said. "And also, hopefully, it's just an interesting story about a fascinating man - who at times, my wife thought I was morphing into," Epp said with laughter in his voice. Elizabeth Clewell Epp died in 2013 after a battle with cancer. Ronald Epp has dedicated the biography to her memory. "Creating Acadia National Park: The Biography of George Bucknam Dorr" is available in paperback for $20 through Acadia-area booksellers and through Friends of Acadia at acadiacentennial2016.org(https://www.google.com/url? http://www.acadiacentennial2016.org&sa=D&ust=1460054732125000&usg=AFQOjCNHGXyuqATnmRmbR2BYsrOYizMTnoQ). 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She has concluded that in the last few centuries spotted-cat motifs have been used to attract attention and exude power, ferocity, independence, sophistication, sensuality and sometimes outright debauchery. The underlying message is, she said, "I will be seen, and I am not prey." Ms. Weldon will discuss her research in a lecture on May 17 at the Morbid Anatomy Museum in Brooklyn, where an exhibition featuring selections from her collection of leopard-print objects will be on view from May 17 to 30. She blogs at historyofleopardprint.com, and is finishing a book on the subject. At moments in her scholarly pursuit, she said, she's "gone way too far" and found herself practically unable to tear herself away from pinning down particular facts. One might even consider her, well, dogged. tp://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/29/arts/design/dressed-to-kill-the-power-ofleopard-prints.html?_r 1/4 4/30/2016 Dressed to Kill: The Power of Leopard Prints - The New York Times Penobscot Nation Cultural and Historic Preservation Department. In 2011, Mr. Siebert's heirs dispersed much of his collection, which had been on view at institutions including the Abbe Museum, through Skinner auction house in Boston. Maine museums acquired some of the lots. A beaded pointy cap, which sold for $35,550, is now at the Maine State Museum in Augusta, along with Mr. Siebert's wampum necklace, which had belonged to a Penobscot basket maker named Sylvia Stanislaus. The Abbe Museum's purchases included a medal in the shape of Maine's outline; in 1936, the state's governor gave it to Mrs. Stanislaus to celebrate her centennial. A new book, "Creating Acadia National Park: The Biography of George Bucknam Dorr," by the historian Ronald H. Epp, explains how Dr. Abbe collaborated with the park's founder, the Boston textile heir George Dorr, to create the trailside museum. Dr. Abbe had been inspired after seeing American Indian stone tools in a Bar Harbor storefront window. "I was filled with a desire to possess and study them," he later recalled. The philanthropic effort briefly revitalized his health, Mr. Epp writes; Dr. Abbe, who died of bone marrow failure, had been an early advocate of radiation treatments for cancer and was most likely overexposed to radioactive toxins. A version of this article appears in print on April 29, 2016, on page C29 of the New York edition with the headline: Antiques. © 2016 The New York Times Company http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/29/arts/design/dressed-to-kill-the-power-ofleopard-prints.html?_r=1 4/4 Comments HUBweek Presents: Brew The Charles NEW ENGLAND LITERARY NEWS I JAN GARDNER New England literary news "Bear Island Light" by Louise Bourne from the coffee table book "Art of Acadia" by David and Carl Little. By Jan Gardner | GLOBE CORRESPONDENT AUGUST 05, 2016 subhead Artists have long been brilliant ambassadors for the craggy Maine coastal area that is now Acadia National Park. In the mid-1850s Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River school of landscape painting, and his student Frederic Edwin Church traveled hundreds of miles north to Mount Desert Island. Also drawn to the northern coast of Maine were Fairfield Porter, Fitz Henry Lane, John Singer Twee Share 0 While artists Comments were instrumental in communicating the beauty and power of the Maine coast, wealthy Boston native George Bucknam Dorr played a major role in the preservation of the land. Called the father of Acadia, he was the founder and first superintendent of what was then New England's only national park. Most national parks have been created on federal lands; Acadia was created out of donations of private land. It was in the summer of 1916 that the National Park Service was created, and President Wilson accepted the 5,000-acre parcel that was the beginning of what today is Acadia National Park. The centennial of those two milestones is being celebrated with the publication of two books. Brothers and longtime Maine residents David and Carl Little are co-authors of "Art of Acadia" (Down East), a coffee-table book that showcases the output of artists who through the centuries have responded to the landscape and seascape of Mount Desert Island and its environs. Their book mentions the key role of Dorr and his fellow preservationists in establishing the first national park east of the Mississippi River. In "Creating Acadia National Park: The Biography of George Bucknam Dorr" (Friends of Acadia), historian Ronald H. Epp unfurls the story of the park's founding. In key supporting roles are Dorr's fellow Downeast Maine landowners Charles Eliot, president of Harvard University, and John D. Rockefeller, who donated more than 10,000 acres to the park and funded the construction of roads and bridges there. Dorr loved living on the oceanfront farm his father had bought, but he spent a lot of time in Washington, D.C., over the years lobbying the federal government to establish Acadia National Park. As Dorr wrote, referencing Acadia, "The men in control will change, the Government itself will change, but its possession by the people will remain whatever new policies or developments may come." Mystery debut Trial lawyer Jonathan F. Putnam graduated first in his class at Harvard Law School but does he have the right stuff to become a successful mystery writer? Early Twee Share 0 CHOICE Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. Sept. 2016. Reviews Social & Behavioral Sciences covers the II BOOK Creating Acadia National Park : the biography of George Bucknam Dorr Full Record MARC Tags Personal name Epp, Ronald H., author. Main title Creating Acadia National Park : the biography of George Bucknam Dorr / Ronald H. Epp. Edition First edition. Published/Produced Bar Harbor, Maine : Friends of Acadia, [2016] C 2016 Request this Item LC Find It 12/5/2018 LC Catalog - Item Information (Full Record) More Information > LCCN Permalink https://lccn.loc.gov/2015956685 Description xiv, 393 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm ISBN 9780996861403 0996861408 LC classification F27.M9 E66 2016 Summary "We are very fortunate to have Ronald Epp's timely work at the 100th anniversary of the park and the National Park Service. Epp's extensive research provides new insights into the life of George B. Dorr, which Epp carefully weaves into the remarkable story of the founding of Acadia National Park. Epp documents Dorr's abilities to collaborate, his persistence, indefatigable spirit, and belief in preservation for future generations. Readers will be inspired to reflect on how the dedication of one person can influence the enjoyment and enrichment of millions." Margaret Coffin Brown, Historical Landscape Architect at the NPS Olmstyed Center for Landscape Preservation. Contents Introduction -- First Impressions -- Dr. Eliot Sails into Frenchman Bay -- The Most Impressionable Years -- The Long Journey to Mount Desert Island -- Restless Indecision -- Between Boston and Mount Desert Island -- Landscape as Our Common Heritage -- Fin de Siècle -- The Birth of the Trustees -- Gatherings -- Trustee First Steps -- Mr. Dorr Goes to Washington -- Monumental Achievement -- The First Eastern National Park -- The Prince of Altruists -- Attack May Come Again -- Beginnings and Endings -- "The Old Summit Road 12/5/2018 LC Catalog - Item Information (Full Record) Dedication -- The Mather Era Closes -- A Full and Useful Life -- Epilogue. LC Subjects Dorr, George B. (George Bucknam), 1853-1944. Acadia National Park (Me.) Other Subjects Dorr, George B. (George Bucknam), 1853-1944. Maine--Acadia National Park. Browse by shelf order F27.M9 Notes Includes bibliographical references and index. Text in English. LCCN 2015956685 Dewey class no. 974.1/45 Geographic area code in-us-me Other system no. (OCoLC)ocn946314499 Type of material Book Content type text Media type unmediated Carrier type volume Item Availability > CALL NUMBER F27.M9 E66 2016 CABIN BRANCH Copy 1 12/5/2018 LC Catalog - Item Information (Full Record) Jefferson or Adams Building Reading Rooms - STORED OFFSITE Status Not Charged I Penmor Lithographers Page 2 of 3 NEWS Penmor print project included as award winner in 08/13/2015 Note: C.A.N.P. Printer Wide Format Printing site live! 07/17/2015 Penmor Wide Format Printing 06/26/2015 more The mark of FSC responsible forestry www org FSC* C100699 MEDIA G7 MASTER OFFICER Visit Us VISIT PENMOR Located just minutes from the Maine Turnpike, it is convenient for Sign in customers to visit Penmor for prepress, proofs, and on-press checks. 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