"Centennial of the First Celebration of Acadia: G.B. Dorr's Address." Saint Saviour's Episcopal Church. August 22, 2016. Bar Harbor. ME R-Epp AD NATIONAL 1916 2016 TM CENTENNIAL CENTENNIAL OF THE FIRST CELEBRATION OF ACADIA AUGUST 22, 2016, 1:45 - 4:00 P.M. SAINT SAVIOUR'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH 41 MT. DESERT STREET, BAR HARBOR 1:45-2:00 PREPROGRAM Airs of the Era by Andrea Horner, Great-granddaughter of Luere Babson Deasy Images from the Early Conservation Years (repeating slide show at rear of church) WELCOME TO ST. SAVIOUR'S Rev. Timothy Fleck 2:00-2:10 HONOR TO SPECIAL GUESTS 2:10-3:00 SPEECHES FROM THE FIRST CELEBRATION OF ACADIA Jack Russell, Historical Guide Dr. Chares Eliot Pierce Jr., Speech of President Charles W. Eliot Rev. Timothy Fleck, Speech of Bishop William Lawrence Dr. Ronald Epp, Speech of George B. Dorr Dr. Steve Katona, Speech of Alfred G. Mayer Dr. William Horner, Speech of Luere Babson Deasy 3:00-3:15 THE GIFT OF ACADIA: CONSUMMATION OF A CENTURY Joshua Torrance, Executive Director of the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations, presents the deed of their final gift of land to Acadia National Park Superintendent Kevin Schneider 3:15-3:20 THE ACADIA WALTZ The Kelly Farm Five 3:20-4:00 RECEPTION IN THE CHURCH GARDEN EVENTS > CENTENNIAL OF FIRST ACADIA CELEBRATION Like 3 CENTENNIAL OF FIRST ACADIA CELEBRATION 000 000 000 000 000 Date: Monday Aug 22, 2016 Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Description: The first big community celebration of the conservation of Acadia was convened on 8/22/1916 at the elegant Building of the Arts near the Kebo Golf Course. The program featured historic speeches by President Eliot, George B. Dorr, and eminent islander Luere Babson Deasy. On 8/22/2016, St. Saviour's Episcopal Church and Friends of Acadia we will reprise this celebration on its 100th anniversary. The historic speeches will be reoffered by direct descendants of Eliot and Deasy and Mr. Dorr's biographer. Location: St. Saviour's Episcopal Church, Mount Desert Street, Bar Harbor Contact Name: Diane Ingalls Zito Contact Phone #: (207) 669-8256 Event Sponsor(s): St. Saviour's Episcopal Church This is a free event. See all events This website is a project of the ACADIA CENTENNIAL TASK FORCE c/o Friends of Acadia 43 Cottage Street, P.O. Box 45, Bar Harbor, Maine 04609 (207) 288-3340 toll-free: (800) 625-0321 www.friendsofacadia.org I www.nps.gov/acad Contact Friends of Acadia I Contact Acadia National Park © 2016 Copyright Acadia Centennial Task Force E ST. SAVIOUR'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH Like 0 ST. SAVIOUR'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH ST SAVIOUR'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH General Description St. Saviour's Episcopal Church has been striving to be a lively spiritual resource for the entire Bar Harbor community since 1876. We welcome all to join us in loving our neighbors through service and sharing, and loving God through word, song, prayer and sacrament. We are blessed with an historic building in the center of Bar Harbor, where we are able to host a wide variety of musical performances and community functions. Centennial Plans On August 22, 1916, the communities that had worked to create what would become Acadia expressed their pride and pleasure at a grand celebration at the Building of the Arts in Bar Harbor. Among the celebrants and speakers that day in 1916 were Charles W. Eliot, George B. Dorr, and Luere Babson Deasy. On August 22, 2016, exactly one hundred years later, St. Saviour's Church will host an afternoon celebration and reenactment to honor the vision of these three founders of Acadia National Park. Direct descendants of Charles Eliot and Luere Deasy, and a worthy representative of Mr. Dorr, will deliver their original speeches and recreate the atmosphere of that celebration. The speeches given a century ago still resonate with Acadia lovers today. This event, which is free and open to the public, will also include music appropriate to the occasion and a 1916 style lemonade social. St. Saviour's is also proud to host other events to honor the Centennial, including concerts of the Acadia Choral Society on May 7th and 8th, and of the Mount Desert Summer Chorale on August 5th and 6th. Details of those concerts may be found on by following the links above for those organizations. Contact 41 Mount Desert Street Bar Harbor, Maine 04609 acp@mdi-episcopal.org (207)288-4215 http://www.stsaviours.me CENTENNIAL EVENTS Centennial of First Acadia Celebration Monday August 22, 2016 This website is a project of the ACADIA CENTENNIAL TASK FORCE c/o Friends of Acadia 43 Cottage Street, P.O. Box 45, Bar Harbor, Maine 04609 (207) 288-3340 toll-free: (800) 625-0321 www.friendsofacadia.org I www.nps.gov/acad Contact Friends of Acadia I Contact Acadia National Park © 2016 Copyright Acadia Centennial Task Force Page 1 of 1 Anne Funderburk From: "Jack Russell" Date: Monday, July 25, 2016 4:03 PM To: "Diana Paine" ; "Anne Funderburk" ; "Bill Horner" Subject: Luncheon and Celebration of August 22nd 7/25/2016 Dear Diana, Anne, and Bill, I write your esteemed selves as living direct descendants of original members of the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations. As I hope I have communicated clearly in conversations with each of you, Monday, August 22nd looms as an important milestone in our Acadia Centennial celebration. On that date, from roughly 2:00-4:00 PM, at St. Saviour's in Bar Harbor, we will do our best to reprise, with respect, the first celebration of Acadian conservation, the event hosted by the original Trustees at the Building of the Arts to celebrate the conservation of Sieur de Monts National Monument. The core of our offering will be the speeches made that day by Eliot, Dorr and Deasey - offered respectively at our event by Diana, Ron Epp, and Bill. The program will also include the formal, ceremonial passage of the final gift of land from the HCTPR to Acadia, when Joshua Torrance, Executive Director of the current HCTPR, presents ANP Superintendent Kevin Schneider with the formal deed to a two-acre plot of in-holding land near Sewall. If we can get ourselves organized, we may also make some announcements to bang the drum for our Acadia Bicentennial Time Capsule. But at midday on the 22nd before this public show, our friends on the current board of the HCTPR request the honor or your company, with companions, at a private luncheon they wish to host for as many living direct descendants of the original HCTPR as we can identify and enlist. This luncheon will be in the Community Gallery at the Abbe Museum, conveniently close to St. Saviour's. This luncheon will be from Noon until 1:45. Joshua and his board would welcome brief remarks from each of your about your esteemed forebear - only a few informal minutes to honor their distinctive contribution to the work of the Trustees. My practical task is to ask your help to indentifying any other such living direct descendants known to you. Through Diana's gracious hospitality, I have met her uncle C. W. Eliot Paine, namesake of the President, so I do hope to engage him and his bride with Diana's guidance. Do other come to mind? I hope to close on our list of invitees this week so that we can give folks decent notice. I will call soon to follow up on this adventure. With Appreciation, Jack 7/29/2016 page 1 oF 3 GEORGE B. DORR Narrator: R.H.Epp St.Saviour's 8/22 /2016. Mr. Chairman: My thought turns forward, rather, to the great opportunity that springs from what is now achieved, than back toward the past, save for the memory of those I would were here to be glad with us at this first stage attained. It is an opportunity of singular interest, so to develop and preserve the wild charm and beauty of a spot thus honored by the Nation that that future generations may rejoice in them yet more than we ; and so to conserve, and where there is need.restore, the wild life willfind whose native haunt it is that all may find delight in it, and men of science a uniquely interesting field for study. For both purposes we need more land, as anyone may see by studying the Park and Reservation bounds on Dr. Abbe's wonderfully illuminating relief map. We have begun an important work; we have succeeded until the Nation itself has taken cognizance of it and joined with us for its advancement; let us not stop short of its fulfillment in essential points. Adequate approaches to the National Monument, which men and women from the country over will henceforth come to see, should be secured. The areas adjoining it that are fertile in wild life exceptional forest tracts, wild orchid meadows and natural wild-flower areas of other type, the pools haunted by water-loving birds, and the deep, well-wooded and well-watered valleys that lie between the mountains are necessary to include in order to make the Park what it should be, a sanctuary and protecting home for the whole region's plant and animal life, and for the birds that ask its hospitality upon their long migrations. Make it this, and naturalists will seek it from the whole world over, and from it other men will learn similarly to cherish wild life in other places. The influence of such work, beneficent in every aspect, travels far; and many, beholding it, will go hence as missionaries to extend it. We have a wonderful landscape, to deepen the impression, and, now that the Government has set its seal of high approval on it, wide publicity will be given to all that we accomplish. page 2 of3 By taking the opportunity given us by the richly varied topography of the Island, by its situation on the border between land and sea, by the magnificent beginning made, and the Government's co-operation, we can do something now whose influence will be widely felt. And here I wish to say a word which falls in singularly well with the thought of the far-reaching influence this work may have. Charles Eliot, Dr. Eliot's older son, was a landscape architect of rare ability and enthusiasm. Moved by a public spirit that he derived alike from his own nature and the home influences that helped to form him, he initiated in Massachusetts the system of Public Reservations on which our own was modeled. To him Mt. Desert owes that debt of leadership, while he, in turn, might never have been awakened to the value and importance of such work had it not been for the inspiration, the love of nature and the quickened consciousness of beauty, drawn from boyhood summers passed upon it. During the early summer, when I was at Washington working on this matter of the Park's establishment and was plunged for weeks together in its oppressive heat, it struck me what a splendid and useful thing it would be if we could provide down here, in a spot so full of biologic interest and unsolved biologic problems, so rich in various beauty and locked around by a cool northern sea, a summer camp some simple summer home for men of science working in the Government bureaus, in the museums and universities. They would come down to work, as Henry Chapman and Charles Sedgwick Minot used to do, on a fresh field of life, bird or plant or animal, and then go back invigorated, ready to do more valuable work the whole winter through in consequence of this climatic boon and stimulating change. This is one opportunity. Another, which is urgent, is to secure now, while it may be done, tracts of special biologic interest not yet secured, irreplaceable if lost in private ownership or through destruction of their natural conditions, as well as adequate approaches to the National Park, convenient and scenically worthy of the national possession to which they lead. Both of these are essentially page 3 of: 3 important at this time. No one who has not made the study of it which I have can realize how truly wonderful the opportunities are which the creation of this Park has opened, alike in wild life ways and splendid scenery. To lose by want of action now what will be so precious to the future, whether for the delight of men or as a means to study, would be no less than tragic. Do not, therefore, look on what has been accomplished as other than a first step attained upon a longer way, which should be followed only the more keenly for the national co-operation that has been secured, the national recognition won. 852 Words 10/1/2016 XFINITY Connect XFINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.net + Font Size - Re: Merci From : RWH Tue, Aug 23, 2016 09:02 AM Subject : Re: Merci To : Ronald Epp Ron, Simply elegant! So gracefully expressed. It's wonderful to see you and your work garner such deserving tributes. All of us are proud for you. Enjoy! I look forward to our de-briefing. Carry on, chum! R On Aug 22, 2016, at 10:54 PM, Ronald Epp wrote: From: "Jack Russell" To: "Ron Epp" Sent: Monday, August 22, 2016 10:31:00 PM Subject: Merci Dear Ron, Well done and thank you. Mindful that you have worn the Blue Hill/MDI track bare this month, I thank you for lending your skill and profile to our re-creation today. You were dead-on right to encourage me to add the speeches of Mayer and Bishop Lawrence and graceful in your rendering of the GBD speech. I allow myself the thought that George might have been pleased by our effort to honor this place and the deepening tradition for service he and his associates did so much to inspire. With Fraternity, Jack https://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=385546&tz=America/New_York&xim=1 1/1 7/25/2016 Sieur de Monts national monument: addresses upon its opening, August 22, 1916 : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive C SIEUR DE MONTS PUBLICATIONS 11 Sieur de Monts National Monument ADDRESSES UPON ITS OPENING AUGUST 22 1916 Sieur de Monts national monument: addresses upon its opening, August 22, 1916 Published 1916 Topics Sieur de Monts national monument. [from old catalog] SHOW MORE Volume 1 https://archive.org/details/sieurdemontsnati01barh 1/4