Host Raney Bench chats with Sean Cox about how discontent with MDI infrastructure, among other factors, led to an early 20th century proposal to install electric streetcars in downtown Bar Harbor. Find out more about a manipulated photograph that features Bar Harbor on the left, blending into an unknown town on the right.

Season Three of Chebacco Chats explores the theme of this year's Chebacco, Volume XXIII: Imagining What If...?

What if Bar Harbor had installed an electric streetcar rail to Ellsworth? How would that have impacted traffic, tourism, and the island's communities?

Host Jenna Jandreau chats with Betsy Hewlett about the Eagle Lake Lodge, Stables, and Tea House, a third gatehouse proposed in addition to the two existing iconic red brick and stone gatehouses on Mount Desert Island.

Where on Eagle Lake was this lodge supposed to be built? How big would it have been? What happened to the plan?

We re-air our April 2020 episode featuring Professor Liam Riordan of University of Maine, Orono, who chats with then MDI Historical Society historian Tim Garrity about Washington and Hancock Counties and their votes to separate from Massachusetts during Maine's long journey to statehood.

Raney Bench and Jenna Jandreau chat about what goes into publishing our annual award-winning journal Chebacco, mailed to members every spring. At least two years before printing an edition, a theme emerges and we send out a call to authors. Over twenty years of publishing, the journal has undergone a journey, an evolution of its content and design.