Program Archive
Chebacco Chats Archives can be found HERE
Chebacco Chats Archives can be found HERE
On August 28, 2024 University of Maine lecturer and MDI Historical Society Collections Manager Dr. Patrick Callaway spoke about his 2024 Chebacco article 'The Mount Desert Island Committee for Peace, 1962-1966.'
On July 18, Ella Kotsen discussed her research and inspiration for her 2024 Chebacco article Ruth Moore’s Microcosm: Narratives that Deconstruct Notions of Inside and Outside. Gott’s Island/Tremont author Ruth Moore wrote narratives that told local working-class stories while also exploring the unique perspective offered by being “from away.” . The program was a collaboration between the Northeast Harbor Library and the MDI Historical Society.
On June 13 at 7 p.m. at Jesup Memorial Library, Anne Kozak presented slides tracing the development of the Wild Gardens Of Acadia, as well as highlights from the last 63 years. The 2024 issue of the MDI Historical Society’s history journal Chebacco explores how summer and year-round residents have changed Mount Desert Island through initiatives that broaden and enhance living and visiting here.
On May 30, 2024 Mollie Cashwell spoke about the Jesup Memorial Library's Print Room and her research while writing her article for the history journal Chebacco.
Affordable and available housing has reached a crisis on Mount Desert Island and difficult conversations are taking place in every community about possible solutions. How did we get here?
On Tuesday, June 25, 2024 at 5:30 p.m. Raney Bench from the Mount Desert Island Historical Society, and Susanne Paul and Noel Musson with the Housing Solutions Initiative presented "Housing, Historic Struggles, and Thoughts on the Future”
On June 12, 2024, Carl Little shared a slide talk based on his 2024 Chebacco essay, Mary Cabot Wheelwright’s ‘Journey Towards Understanding.’ This talk took place at the Northeast Harbor Library.
Libby Bischof features photographs by Lucy McMullen Dodge, taken while living on Mount Desert Rock in the early-1900s.
Tim Garrity and Jaylene Roths talk about one of the worst cases of mutiny and mass murder in American maritime history, on board the Berwind.