MEMORABLE MEMORIALS
BOAT BUILDERS
FIRE!
AUTHORS AND ARTISTS
BACKSIDERS
FINAL JEOPARDY
200
A memorial stands for him in Acadia, for establishing and first commanding the Otter Cliffs Radio Station
Who is Alessandro Fabbri?
200
He bought Rasmus Hanson’s Manset Boatyard in 1924.
Who is Benjamin Hinckley?
200
What burnt down on MacFarland’s Hill in the fire of 1947?
What was the ski tow?
200
This movie was adapted from one of her novels.
Who is Ruth Moore?
Photograph: British Deep Waters Poster from Islandport Press website.
200
This Backsider sold Porsche tractors out of his garage in Seal Cove.
Who is Richard Paine, Jr.?
200
Category
Write your team name on a piece of paper.
Island Women
400
A bas-relief memorial describing “The First Recorded Landing of White Persons on Mt. Desert Island Maine” is located here
What is Saint Ignatius Church in Northeast Harbor?
400
The name of this boatbuilder
Who is Lyford Stanley?
Photo: Lyford and Norma, courtesy Southwest Harbor Public Library
400
Fred Savage rebuilt this former racing club after it burned in a fire in 1899, only to have it burn down again in the fire of 1947.
What is the Kebo Valley Clubhouse?
400
This organization started a rug hooking program in 1923 for Downeast and island women to make extra money.
What is the Maine Seacoast Mission?
400
Christopher and Freelove Bartlett’s island became a part of this town in 1838.
What was Seaville?
400
Question
She kept a meticulous journal about settling and living on a deserted island for 36 years.
Add your wager! 30 seconds to come up with her name. Write your answer on the paper and bring it up to us.
600
A plaque on the Seaside Path between Jordan Pond and Seal Harbor is named for him and lauds his “pioneer service and labor of love in making known the flora of Mount Desert.”
Who is Edward Rand?
600
During WWII this boatyard won Navy contracts to build 125 boats
What was the Mount Desert Yacht Yard?
600
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Seaweed clogged the fire hoses pumping seawater from the harbor, attempting to save this movie house.
What was The Neptune?
600
The Bar Harbor artist who photographed the stained glass windows for Chebacco Vol XX 2019.
Who is Jennifer Steen Booher?
Photograph: Jennifer Steen Booher
600
This explorer once owned a home in West Tremont on Latty Cove.
Who is Admiral Richard E. Byrd?
600
Answer
Who is Nan Kellam?
Photograph courtesy of Southwest Harbor Public Library
800
Where a less seen memorial to Alessandro Fabbri resides
What is the American Legion Post on Cottage Street in Bar Harbor?
800
The name of this boat builder.
Who is Ralph Stanley?
Photograph: Ralph Stanley by LaRue Spiker, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
800
The cargo of Royal Tar, a steamer that burned while anchored off the coast of Vinalhaven in 1836.
What were circus animals?
800
This Eleanor Mayo book was made into the 1950 B-movie Tarnished.
800
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“A great flurry it got in all the papers and on the radio, and all the old diehards and shellbacks in town who think ‘wimmen’s fit fa one thing and that’s all, by God,’ are standing on their heads and spinning,” Ruth Moore wrote about the reaction to this woman being the first elected female selectman in Tremont.
Who is Eleanor Mayo?
1000
A memorial for him is engraved on the 700-step climb containing the largest rocks ever used on any Acadian trail.
Who is Kurt Diederich?
1000
The name of this boatbuilder:
Who is Jarvis Newman?
1000
An island architect who brought a new style to MDI after the Great Fire of 1947.
Who was Robert Patterson?
1000
This Russian artist and architect later painted scenes of Mount Desert Island and designed a Northeast Harbor summer home.
Who was Lev Goriansky?
1000
The woman who pushed for, and raised the majority of the money for, St. Columba's Mission, the Episcopalian church built on Great Gott Island in 1916.
Who was Elizabeth Peterson?