"Designing Acadia." " Maine Historical Society. Portland Maine October 26, 2016 10/9/2016 Creating Acadia National Park: the Biography of George Bucknam Dorr Book Talk I Maine Historical Society|, www.Visitportland.com Convention + Visitors Bureau 207-772-5800 info@visitportland.com Home > Events Calendar NAVIGATE: Previous Next Calendar EVENT: CREATING ACADIA NATIONAL PARK: THE BIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE BUCKNAM DORR BOOK TALK Presented by: Maine Historical Society Maine Historical Society, Portland M H S Book talk with the author of Creating Acadia National Park: the Biography of George Bucknam Dorr. The first biography of George B. Dorr ever written, Creating Acadia National Park: the Biography of George Bucknam Dorr is based on painstaking research both in the US and abroad, including federal, state, and private archives. Newly-discovered and uncatalogued sources are supplemented by in-person interviews. Hear from author and historian Dr. Ronald Epp about his important book, documenting Dorr's pivotal role in the creation of Acadia National Park. Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. is a historian and professor of philosophy with a background in scholarly publishing and academic library leadership. 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. He served as a consultant for the Ken Burns documentary America's Best Idea: the National Parks and has uncovered and inventoried hidden collections of documents relating to the history of Acadia National Park. Free for MHS Members; $10 general admission. Register today! SAVE TO TRIP PLAN SEE MAP COMPANY INFO https://www.visitportland.com/creating-acadia-national-ev6570.aspx?cr=149252 1/3 Current Exhibitions at Maine Historical Society, Portland Page 1 of 3 M H S MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY Member Login I My Account Search PRESERVING HISTORY ENGAGING MINDS CONNECTING MAINE Current Exhibitions Admission to gallery: Adults - $8.00; Students with ID, Seniors & AAA members - $7.00; Children 6-17: $3; 5 and under, free Free for MHS members. Designing Acadia: Creating Maine's National Park Experience Exhibition on view June 17, 2016 through January 14, 2017 MHS Gallery On the Scenic Cadillac Mt. Road, Bar Harbor, ca. 1935 For one hundred years, Acadia National Park has captured the American imagination and stood as the most recognizable symbol of Maine's important natural history and identity. Tourists traveled to Mount Desert Island for decades before the creation of our national park system to experience and enjoy nature. But most do not realize that experience has been purposefully designed. The design of the park as a public space sought to create vistas, sight lines, and diverse opportunities for visitors to experience Mt. Desert Island's special and varied landscape. From the breathtaking views, to the roads and trails we use today, each section of the Park was carefully considered to both protect the environment and to enhance the visitor experience. Join us during Acadia's centennial anniversary year for an exploration of the landscape design that visitors continue to experience today. See related online exhibition. Images of Destruction: Remembering the Great Portland Fire of 1866 Exhibition on view June 30 through October 30, 2016 Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. Lecture Hall and Showcase Gallery https://www.mainehistory.org/museum_current.shtml 10/10/2016 10/14/2016 XFINITY Connect XFINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.net + Font Size RE: book talk at Maine Historical Society From : Kate McBrien Fri, Oct 14, 2016 10:46 AM Subject : RE: book talk at Maine Historical Society To : Ronald Epp Hello Dr. Epp, Your plan for your talk sounds perfect! The Designing Acadia exhibit looks at the purposeful design efforts to create Acadia National Park as visitors experience it today. Maps and the Acadia National Park Master Plan for major features of the exhibit. In case it helps, here is the exhibit's introductory text: Designing Acadia: Creating Maine's National Park Experience For one hundred years, Acadia National Park has captured the American imagination and stood as the most recognizable symbol of Maine's important natural history and identity. For decades even before the creation of the national park system, tourists traveled to Mount Desert Island to experience and enjoy nature, as so many of us continue to do today. But most do not realize that experience has been purposefully designed. When the area now known as Acadia National Park was created in 1916, it was on land that had been used for centuries by Native Americans, local farmers and fisherman, and, more recently, wealthy rusticators. The design of the park as a public space sought to create vistas, sight lines, and diverse opportunities for visitors to experience Mt. Desert Island's special and varied landscape. From the breathtaking views, to the roads and trails we use today, each section of the Park was carefully considered to both protect the environment and to enhance the visitor experience. It is that landscape design that visitors continue to experience today. I hope this helps. I'm looking forward to your talk! Kate McBrien Chief Curator Maine Historical Society 489 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101 kmcbrien@mainehistory.org 207-774-1822 ext. 236 www.MaineHistory.org www.MaineMemory.net Visit Designing Acadia: Creating Maine's National Park Experience June 17, 2016 through January 14, 2017. From: Ronald Epp [mailto:eppster2@comcast.net] Sent: Friday, October 14, 2016 10:25 AM To: Kate McBrien Subject: Re:Epp book talk at Maine Historical Society Dear Kate, https://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=393307&tz=America/New_York&xim= 1/5 10/14/2016 XFINITY Connect I'd appreciate your input into an approach that I am adding to my talk at the MHS on the 26th. I spoke with Patrick Chasse this morning and ran the approach by him. However, since I haven't seen your exhibit I wanted to avoid overlap--or even possible conflict--with what the exhibit presents. Wilderness was the state of affairs prior to human habitation--and Nature was the Grand Designer. While native american culture imposed design through waterways, paths, and other human constructs, by the late 19th-century European settlement on Mount Desert Island had dramatically impacted what "wilderness" remained. I'd like to digress briefly from my main themes about Dorr's life and my process of bringing his life into print, by showing how the wilderness concept was used by a group of summer residents (most notably U.S. Senator George Pepper) to undermine both Rockefeller's carriage road development and Dorr's administrative efforts to expand the park footprint. This would enable me to tie my talk more closely with the content of your exhibit. Your thoughts? Cheers. Ronald Epp From: "Kate McBrien" To: "Ronald Epp" Sent: Monday, September 12, 2016 7:30:54 AM Subject: RE: book talk at Maine Historical Society Yes! October 26th still works very well. Does noon work best for you? We could do an evening program, if that is more convenient. And yes, any promotional materials from your publisher would be very helpful. Thank you! I should ask too - do you charge a speaking fee? Some of our speakers do, while most do not. But I wanted to check! Thanks. Kate McBrien https://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=393307&tz=America/New_York&xim= 2/5 1 Designing Acadia Maine Historical Society October 26, 2016 (Revised) Good afternoon. I'm delighted to be speaking at a place that provided me with resources that spurred the development of my biography of the Father of Acadia National Park. I appreciate the most thoughtful efforts of Kate O'Brien in arranging this event. It is our good fortune that her "Designing Acadia" exhibit is still available as we approach the end of this centennial year. I would like to take a cue from this exhibit and begin by discussing the origins of park design and its relationship to Acadia. I will then apply the design concept by recounting how my attraction to Acadia-the research, analysis, writing, talks, and publications- came to fruition in the Dorr biography. The controversy that faced Dorr in the early years of his administration of the park--with the most far-reaching implications for the future of Acadia--arose over a design issue that is little remembered ninety years later. In stark opposition to park design is wilderness preservation. While this concept has been defined in various ways, "wasteland" is an equivalence that figures into early 19th-century political figures who use the term to designate portions of the public domain of little use. These areas were described in John Miles' recent study of Wilderness in National Parks as "remote, high, rocky, snowy, icy hard to reach, unsettled, and therefore 'wild. III Unfortunately, Acadia appears to be outside the scope of Miles's inquiry, for Acadia is nowhere referenced. It is not uncommon to associate vast tracts of land as 2 a defining characteristic of wilderness precondition, a supposition not made by Acadia advocates. Native Americans knew many of these places quite well-and they had concerns about the impact of European cultures. Artist George Catlin's 1832-1839 travels-recounted in his landmark Letters and Notes on the Manners, Creatures, and Customs of the North American Indians-were actually field trips to study and paint the indigenous Great Plains population. Catlin saw the impact of advancing western culture and forecast that without government intervention, the remaining American wilderness would vanish. For "these landscape should be preserved in their pristine beauty and wildness, in a magnificent park nation's Park, containing man and beast, in all the wild freshness of their nature's beauty." Anticipating by two decades Thoreau's defense of "the tonic of wildness," Catlin plants the seed of America's Best Idea! Before the establishment of Yellowstone, Hudson River School painters on the east Coast discovered river and coastal wilderness, covering their vast canvases with radiant scenes, largely without aesthetic evidence of man's presence. Implicit was the artist's message that if these sublime paintings were worthy of preservation in the foremost American museums, then most surely the conservation of the natural source was worth as much-- or more! When visitors in the last decades of the 19th-century visited Yellowstone or Yosemite, they spoke appreciatively of their experience of wilderness. Yet in most instances they did not detect the irony implicit in viewing wilderness it behind the 3 window of a stagecoach or train--neither the rails nor the roadway were original landscape features. In 1904, George Dorr traveled to the Sierras, his second trip within two years to the West Coast. Since these trips immediately followed the establishment of Maine's first land trust, it is tempting to see these ambitious trips as explorations to prepare for Mount Desert National Park. As I detail in my book, he and a guide embarked on a month long wilderness adventure that culminated with the ascent of the highest summit in the contiguous United States, 14, 500-foot Mt. Whitney. Although the word "wilderness" is nowhere to be found, Dorr's forty-page memoir clearly shows his familiarity with the challenges-no roads, few paths, August snowstorms-that wilderness presented in the Sierra Nevada range. In the earliest stage of the park movement, pioneering was still a fact of life for many people--and wilderness referred principally to the absence of extensive and permanent modification of the natural landscape. Prior to the arrival of automobiles, all "previous generations regarded roads as the antithesis of wilderness-where one exists, the other vanishes." In 1858, Albany journalist Samuel Hammond returned from an Adirondacks camping trip worried what modern commerce would do to wild places. He then wrote these startling words: "Had I my way, I would mark out a circle of a hundred miles in diameter, and throw around it the protecting aegis of the Constitution. I would make it a forest forever." It took nearly three decades of deforestation, subsequent soil erosion, and downstate flooding before Albany established a forest reserve and in 1892 made it part of a three million-acre state park. A state constitutional 4 convention and public vote in 1894 ensured that the Adirondack Park (now six million acres and growing) would be kept "forever wild." [Later] the threat of roads encroaching into forests elsewhere is what inspired [American conservationist, forester, and wilderness advocate] Bob Marshall to propose-during the 1920's-- preservation of wilderness landscapes. For him, the ability to travel long distances beyond the reach of automobiles was an experience worth protecting; and if it seemed that public funds were being spent for the benefit of a hardy few, he drew comparisons-[as did landscape architect Charles Eliot did earlier] -- to art museums and botanical gardens-other publicly funded entities that appeal only to a segment of the broader population. [For Marshall], wilderness. was just as culturally critical." (Bill Ingersoll, "Greens Take the Wrong Turn," Adirondack Explorer, July 2016). As we well remember, the Wilderness Society formed in 1935 realized many of its objectives when the Wilderness Act was passed in 1964, protecting nine million acres of federal land. Those who developed Acadia were not only conscious of the struggles that led to the formation of Adirondack Park, they were keenly supportive of the Massachusetts legislature adoption in 1891 of the recommendations of Charles Eliot, the partner of Frederick Law Olmsted and eldest son of Harvard president Charles W. Eliot. Established in 1891, the Trustees of Public Reservation was the first land trust in the world, and the model the Cambridge educator used when forming Maine's Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations in September of 1901 (it is celebrating this year its 125th anniversary throughout its 110 properties). It is a curious historical fact, that the beginnings of Maine's land trust movement-with Dorr as Executive Officer of 5 the Trustees--occurred on the same day that Theodore Roosevelt came off the summit of the highest peak in the Adirondacks (Mt. Marcy). He then learned from a courier that McKinley's assassination had elevated him to the presidency of the United States. Conservation as part of the new Progressive agenda would soar to heights unimagined a decade earlier. Creating Acadia National Park recounts Dorr's introduction of motor roads on the federal landscape as well as his opposition to both motor and carriage road penetration into all areas of the expanding park. Many factors-topography, historical traditions, federal ownership of nearby means of access--all played a role in park design. Both the park and the park service were born within seven weeks of one another. They did not mature at the same rate, especially since the creative freedom Dorr experienced during the first decade (1916-25) was more constrained in the second decade with the growth of professionalism within the NPS. Experience taught him that by building roads accessing portions of the park, local park officials could save undisturbed areas for those-albeit a minority-who enjoyed wilderness. (See Arno Cammerer's management philosophy, R.W. Sellars, Preserving Nature in the National Parks (New Haven Yale U.P., 1997, 106) Wilderness preservation was initially the key issue among a distinct minority opposed to Dorr's management of the new park. By word of mouth, newspaper letters to the editor, and objections voiced at village meetings, some summer residents of Northeast Harbor objected to a perceived loss of wilderness resulting from Rockefeller's carriage road expansion. The specific issue was construction of a carriage road encircling Amphitheater Valley, an especially scenic interior area where streams and pathways converge west of Jordan Pond. Some residents saw such areas as their private enclave. While most generally favored the growth of 6 public parkland, the anticipated Rockefeller's carriage road expansion into these "special private places" was a target of convenience for more generalized opposition to the development plans of the NPS. Locally, the appeal to the sanctity of wilderness echoed earlier summer resident contentions about vehicular use of roads; many "from away" were convinced that autos were a menace to their summer life; after all, many were on Mount desert in flight from what they perceived as automobile saturated urban environments. On the other hand, year round residents saw economic opportunity with the advent of the auto. The well- known Mount Desert auto wars resulted in a 1909 auto ban so well analyzed recently by William Horner, M.D. (See "From Horses to Horsepower," Chebacco XIV [2013] and Neil Maher, "Acadia National Park Motor Roads," HAER 11. ME). Within four years the ban was over. Nor was this wilderness concern an isolated incident, for a national debate had developed at the same time over the city of San Francisco petitioning the federal government to create a reservoir in Yosemite National Park's wild Hetch Hetchy Valley-following the devastating earthquake of 1906. In 1920-21 a Northeast Harbor summer resident, U.S. Senator George Pepper (PA) argued that "there is no justification" for Rockefeller's private carriage roads--they were nothing less than intrusions into a wilderness that must be preserved. In response, Harvard's president Eliot wrote to the Interior Department Secretary that Pepper "does not wish to have the natural scenery marred by the scars made by building roads along a hillside or across a valley [and] it annoys him when he is following a footpath to be obliged .to cross a road sixteen feet wide." (C.W. Eliot Papers. HUA. B.95. 2.1.1924. H. Work). 7 Frustrated by the ongoing expansionist plans of Dorr and Rockefeller, the senator threatened to bring the issue to the floor of the U.S. Senate-this was indeed worrisome. The March 1924 Washington D.C. hearing before Interior Secretary Hubert Work is a casebook study of the clash between the dual mandates of the Organic Act. For island residents with a strict interpretation of the NPS mandate to conserve land unimpaired, Rockefeller's carriage roads and the proposed motor road to the Cadillac summit were examples of Dorr's mismanagement. However, Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. -who wrote the key portion of the 1916 act and was involved in Acadia design issues at Sieur de Monts Spring-was convinced that the design and construction of park facilities made it possible to achieve both preservation and enjoyment. The official report of Secretary Work identified the 1922 development plan of his predecessor as "premature and too ambitious... [which] led to confusion and discontent." Nevertheless, he ruled that the Jordan Pond to Eagle Lake Road was not a threat to the wild quality of the region, and that both the carriage road encircling Sargent and Penobscot mountains as well as the motor road to the Cadillac summit could proceed. All in all, a stunning victory for both Dorr and Rockefeller-but one that left unresolved the wilderness issue. And as the first decade of the NPS came to a close, professional landscape architects like Thomas Vint would address the cumulative effect of any intrusion into the natural state of affairs: architect Vint explains that to preserve a terrain feature we build a path that also enables more proximate enjoyment of the landscape with increased traffic, a path must be strengthened to resist pressure if foot traffic gives way to horse traffic, a path system for horse and wagon traffic evolves and ultimately roads for automobiles and trucks. The key question is this: "at what 8 point does park development trespass on the wilderness or intrude on the perfect natural landscapes?" As the NPS enters its second century, this issue-growing out of the dual mandates of the Organic Act-remains unsettled. Dorr held that "the greatest recreational territory in the country is the New England coast" where the loss of wilderness was-and still is-conspicuous. (GBD. "Acadia National Park: A Seacoast Possession of the Nation," Nature Magazine, May 1929) Dorr repeatedly referenced "wild life"-more so than wilderness-- and the conservation threats to irreplaceable life forms in all their diversity along the Atlantic coast lands. (GBD. "Wild Life and Nature Conservation in the Eastern States," SMP VI) Unlike other contemporary conservationists, Dorr links land and seascape. The concept of wilderness is not land locked, for it includes the biological potential of the "neighboring ocean, the parent habitat of life." (GBD. "Our Seacoast National Park," Appalachia15 [1920]) In conclusion, I hope that this narrative has provided audience members with a fuller appreciation for this marvelous Maine Historical Society exhibit. To further expand the story of designing Acadia, not only are we fortunate to have excellent studies of the trails, carriage and motor roads of the park but also the biography of the Father of Acadia who inscribed his design on the park well in advance of the National Park Service. But this is yet another intriguing story for another day. Thank you. M Designing Acadia: Creating Maine's National Park Experience S exhibit plan June 16. 2016 - January 14. 2017 Main gallery, MHS Museum Team Role Person Project Manager Kate McBrien Exhibit Curator Kate McBrien Educator Kathleen Neumann Exhibit designer Brewster Buttfield Facilities Steve Landry Marketing Dan D'Ippolitto Fundraising Nan Cumming Registrar Holly Hurd-Forsyth Collections Technician Sofia Yalouris Creative Manager Dani Fazio Outside Contractors n/a Community Partners n/a Exhibit theme Visitors to Acadia National Park view and enjoy the grandness of its landscape through a purposefully designed experience. Educational goals - Visitors will understand that Acadia National Park was and continues to be a designed landscape to both enhance the visitor experience and to protect nature. - Visitors will learn about the evolution of the design of Acadia Exhibit description The outdoors are an essential part of Maine's history and identity, and Acadia National Park continues to hold a special presence in the imagination of both Mainers and visitors from around the world. While we often travel to Acadia and other national parks to experience and enjoy nature, that experience has been designed and planned for us. When Acadia National Park was created, it was on land that had been used for centuries by Native Americans, local farmers and fisherman, and, more recently, wealthy rusticators. The purposeful design of the park sought to create vistas, sight lines, and diverse opportunities for visitors to experience Mt. Desert Island's special and varied landscape. From the breathtaking view to the roads and trails we use, each part of the Park was carefully considered to both protect the environment and to enhance the visitor experience. It is that purposeful design that visitors continue to experience today. This exhibit will celebrate the centennial anniversary of Acadia National Park by exploring the landscape of MDI and its purposefully designed viewpoints, roads, and paths. In order to provide visitors with the best experience possible, from the beginning of Acadia's land acquisition and control by the federal government, a master plan of drawn landscapes and viewpoints directed the construction of the park and many of the areas we continue to enjoy today. A series of historical maps of both MDI and the Acadia land area will help the visitor to understand the changing use of MDI and the acquisition of land for the national park. Landscape design drawings and blueprints, along with photographs of construction, will provide evidence of the planned design of each visitor area to the park. Supplementary artifacts such as tools of the era, archaeological evidence from the island, and examples of trail signs from the park will enhance the exhibit and help the visitor to understand this rural setting in the center of urban Portland. Dawn Land The exhibit will begin by recognizing the Wabanaki presence on MDI, as the first humans to live on and use the land. Archaeological evidence has dated Wabanaki encampments as far back as 5,000 years. They gathered to fish, hunt, and collect shellfish. While on the island they created foot paths that connected lakes and streams in order to transport canoes to major hunting and fishing areas inland. The English settlers of MDI in the 17th and 18th centuries were primarily fishermen, farmers, loggers, and shipbuilders. Like the Wabanaki people before them, the settlers created their own path systems for carts and logging trails, impacting the landscape around them. Rusticators During the mid-1800s, the emerging middle and upper classes sought out MDI as a haven from the noise and pollution of urban life. Over the next forty years, MDI became a popular tourist destination. Near the end of the 19th century, preservation minded summer residents formed village improvement societies to enhance the livability and aesthetic qualities of the island. Each society had a path committee that mapped, marked, and maintained more than 250 miles of walking paths. However, over-development and popularity of the island caused environmental damage that sparked the need for conservation measures. For the Public Benefit Hancock Country Trustees of Public Reservations In 1901, the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations (HCTPR) was established by Charles W. Eliot for the purpose of preserving the land for free public use. Private citizens donated land to the HCTPR - 6,000 acres by 1913 Sieur de Monts National Monument George B. Dorr, known as the father of Acadia National Park, through a series of negations and concentrated lobbying efforts, offered the acquired land to the federal government and on July 8, 1916, the land came under federal protection when President Wilson signed legislation declaring the area the Sieur de Monts National Monument. This was a first federal land created solely through the donation of private lands. Just seven weeks later, the U.S. National Park Services was created. Lafayette National Park In 1919, the Sieur de Monts National Monument joined the newly developed National Park service as the Lafayette National Park. Acadia National Park On January 19, 1929, with a final name change, the Acadia National Park receives its final designation within the National Park Service. The Master Plan Early in the development of the private land around MDI that would become Acadia National Park, George Dorr and Jr. John D. Rockefeller worked closely together to plan, design, and construct the carriage road system we continue to enjoy today. While the carriage roads were under construction, Rockefeller sought to both provide accessibility and to minimize any damage to the surrounding landscape. He believed that humans could improve nature and that the roads would ultimately enhance the landscape. The clear vision for design was continued by the federal government with the creation of "The Master Plan for Acadia National Park." Each visitor section of the park was carefully considered and designed to both maximize the public enjoyment and to protect the surrounding natural areas. Carriage roads While private citizens were donating land to the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations, John D. Rockefeller Jr. was purchasing land for himself and personally funding the construction of carriage roads. The carriage roads took 30 years to complete and was the vision of both Dorr and Rockefeller. Dorr oversaw the construction while Rockefeller chose the routes and provided the funds. In the end, 57 miles of carriage roads, 17 granite bridges, and 2 gate houses were built. Motor Roads The construction of the motor roads took place between 1921 and 1958. The concept and implementation of the roads was the result of Rockefeller's vision, but was Jr. actualized by Frederick Law Olmsted As with the carriage roads, Rockefeller wanted to keep visible damage to the landscape at a minimum. As a result, the early surface treatment of the roads utilized the native granite from a quarry near Bubble Pond, giving it the same color as the surrounding outcroppings. Olmsted and Rockefeller also understood that because people would be taking in the landscape while driving, it was important to minimize distractions presented by other vehicles. For example, Outlook at Otter Point was enhanced by elevating the inner lane of road SO that moving in either direction the motorist could enjoy the spectacular view without seeing the road or another passing car. In total the motor road consists of 26.2 mile circular scenic route with three spurs - Cadillac Mountain Rd, Stanley Brook Rd, Paradise Hill Rd. On-going Maintenance Maintenance of the park has long been a concern. As early as the 1930s, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) operated two CCC camps on MDI: one on McFarland Hill at the site of the current park headquarters and one near the south end of Long Pond. A third CCC camp was soon after established in Ellsworth. The CCC mobilizes young men from struggling families across America for six months of conservation work. Some 3,000 CCC men worked at Acadia, most of them from Maine. As Superintendent Dorr noted, the CCC is the Acadia National Park workforce during the Depression. In 1986, the Friends of Acadia took over from the HCTPR as protectors of MDI. They continue to raise funds for park programs and resources, to encourage volunteer work within the park, and to increase public understanding and appreciation of the park. The Acadia road system experienced a period of decline until rehabilitation efforts took place between 1992 and 1995. Volunteers working under the guidance of Friends of Acadia contributed thousands of hours cleaning ditches and culverts, clearing brush, and assisting park staff with other restoration projects. The Future Currently, increased temperatures have caused more frequent storm surges that are damaging the historic road systems and culverts. The park hopes to acquire enough funding to conduct climate change scenario planning, manage archeological sites, restore subalpine vegetation on Cadillac Mountain, replace stream culverts, model streamflow hydrology, and restore fish habitat in coastal streams. While concerns for the preservation of Acadia continue, efforts are underway in Maine to create a second national park. Budget See attached budget form for a detailed budget. The Major categories/expenses are: Expense MHS cost share Outside Funding Total MHS staff $19,015.00 $19,015.00 Contractors $7,500.00 $7,500.00 Community/Advisory $0 Partners Supplies, graphic $11,750.00 $11,750.00 output, fabrication Marketing $2,000.00 $2,000.00 Member preview event $372.00 $372.00 School programs $500.00 $500.00 Public programs $1,175.00 $1,175.00 Administrative $8,362.00 $8,362.00 overhead (20%) TOTAL $19,015.00 $31,659.00 $50,674.00 Funders: Funder Amount Restriction Noni Ames $10,000.00 None Cate and Dick Gilbane $1,500.00 BHA Foundation Fund $9,000.00 Didi Stockly $6,000.00 PW Sprague Memorial $2,000.00 Foundation TOTAL $28,500.00 Schedule Activity Deadline Person/people responsible