Chebacco
Our annual Journal, Chebacco, is named for a type of boat built in the eighteenth century in Gloucester, Massachusetts and nearby towns. In 1762, Abraham Somes, his wife, and four young daughters sailed in a Chebacco boat to make their home in Somesville and become Mount Desert Island’s first permanent Euro-American settlers.
We invite you to voyage through the histories of Mount Desert Island in this contemporary Chebacco.
Published annually, the journal is sent free to members of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society.
Contributing to our Annual Fund directly supports the publication of Chebacco.
Check out archives of our Chebacco Chats series
Volume XXV 2024 - MDI Inspired
Volume XXIV 2023 - The Maritime Edition
Volume XXIII 2022 - Imagining What If...
Volume XXII 2021 - Summers of Science and Wonder: The Champlain Society Logbooks 1880-1882
Volume XXI 2020 - Before 1820
Volume XX 2019 - Harboring Religion: Missionaries, Converts, and Sojourners
Volume XIX 2018 - Beholding the Past
Volume XVIII 2017 - A Sense of Place
Volume XVII 2016 - The Acadian Borderland
Volume XVI 2015 - Waves of Change
Volume XV 2014 - Against the Tide: Outliers and Controversies
Volume XIV 2013 - The Journey Issue
Volume XIII 2012
Volume XII 2011
Volume XI 2010
Volume X 2009
Volume IX 2008
Volume VIII 2006-2007
Volume VII 2005
Volume VI 2004
Volume V 2003
Volume IV 2001-2002
Volume III 2000
Volume II 1999
