Historian and MDI Historical Society’s Collections Manager, Patrick Callaway will feature unique items from the collection as a means of exploring how the past connects to the present through the items we leave behind. Keeping with next year’s Chebacco theme of ties between the island and the rest of the world, he will share a series of movie posters and advertisements for various island theatres. Stepping back in time to see the early/mid-1900s popular entertainment options allows us to see the connections to a broader pop culture that movies and movie-going provided for islanders.
Photograph: “Park Theatre, Southwest Harbor,” Northeast Harbor Library, https://nehl.digitalarchive.us/items/show/4801. Item 5753
Chebacco Chats, our weekly web series, features authors, historians, and others who study and celebrate history, the great place that is Mount Desert Island, and the way the island impacts the wider world.
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