Creating Acadia National Park Bar Harbor, ME: Friends of Acadia 2016. Celebrate the 2016 Centennial of Acadia National Park and the National Park Service! "In 'Creating Acadia National Park'. CREATING historian Ronald H. Epp unfurls the ACADIA story of the park's founding." - The Boston Globe NATIONAL PARK "Readers will come to know Dorr RONALD H. EPP the man, not only his triumphs and generosity, but also his frailties, The Biography of George Bucknam Dorr his blind spots and ultimately, his humanity." - Mount Desert Islander Although he is known as the "Father of Acadia" and a founder of the oldest national park east of the Mississippi River, George Bucknam Dorr's seminal contributions to the American environmental movement have gone largely unacknowledged. This is the story of Dorr's pioneering role in the establishment and development of a unique conservation model that dovetailed with the evolution of the US National Park Service. Raised in Boston as a member of New England's elite merchant class, Dorr adopted Maine's Mount Desert Island as his home and the setting to apply the practical lessons of "Boston Brahmin" philanthropy, transforming an elitist social inheritance into an all-consuming commitment to conservation. The first biography of Dorr ever written, Creating Acadia National Park 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. Note: See separate files in Series IX on the FRIENDS OF ACADIA DORR biography. friendsofacadia.org