Acadia National Park Ethnographic Overview and Assessment Volume 1 and Volume 2 This two-volume historical-ethnographic overview of Acadia National Park spans almost 500 years and covers a wide coastal stretch between Penobscot and Gouldsboro Bays – and sometimes much beyond. Such breadth of coverage is necessary in order to take in the park’s center piece on Mount Desert Island, plus Isle au Haut and Schoodic Peninsula, along with various land holding arrangements (including easements) on numerous offshore sea-islands in this area.1 The study explores the shifting but ongoing relationship between this habitat and Wabanaki peoples – a group of northeastern Algonquianspeaking ethnic groups or tribal nations today distinguished as the Abenaki, Maliseet, Mi'kmaq, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot.
Prepared under cooperative agreement with The Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, Maine
Northeast Region Ethnography Program
National Park Service
Description: Acadia National Park Ethnographic Overview and Assessment Volume 1 and Volume 2 This two-volume historical-ethnographic overview of Acadia National Park spans almost 500 years and covers a wide coastal stretch between Penobscot and Gouldsboro Bays – and sometimes much beyond. Such breadth of coverage is necessary in order to take in the park’s center piece on Mount Desert Island, plus Isle au Haut and Schoodic Peninsula, along with various land holding arrangements (including easements) on numerous offshore sea-islands in this area.1 The study explores the shifting but ongoing relationship between this habitat and Wabanaki peoples – a group of northeastern Algonquianspeaking ethnic groups or tribal nations today distinguished as the Abenaki, Maliseet, Mi'kmaq, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot. [show more]
Grosvenor Atterbury was an American architect, urban planner and writer, born in Southampton, NY. He studied at Yale University, where he was an editor of campus humor magazine The Yale Record. After travelling in Europe, he studied architecture at Columbia University and worked in the offices of McKim, Mead & White. Much of Atterbury’s early work consisted of weekend houses for wealthy industrialists. Atterbury was given the commission for the model housing community of Forest Hills Gardens which began in 1909 under the sponsorship of the Russell Sage Foundation. For Forest Hills, Atterbury developed an innovative construction method: each house was built from approximately 170 standardized precast concrete panels, fabricated off-site and assembled by crane. The system was sophisticated even by modern standards: panels were cast with integral hollow insulation chambers; casting formwork incorporated an internal sleeve, allowing molds to be "broken" before concrete had completely set; and panels were moved to the site in only two operations (formwork to truck and truck to crane). Atterbury's system influenced the work of mid-1920s European modern architects like Ernst May, who used panelized prefab concrete systems in a number of celebrated experimental housing projects in Frankfurt. In this way Atterbury can be considered a progenitor of the Modern Movement. Atterbury was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1918 as an Associate member, and became a full member in 1940.
Description: Grosvenor Atterbury was an American architect, urban planner and writer, born in Southampton, NY. He studied at Yale University, where he was an editor of campus humor magazine The Yale Record. After travelling in Europe, he studied architecture at Columbia University and worked in the offices of McKim, Mead & White. Much of Atterbury’s early work consisted of weekend houses for wealthy industrialists. Atterbury was given the commission for the model housing community of Forest Hills Gardens which began in 1909 under the sponsorship of the Russell Sage Foundation. For Forest Hills, Atterbury developed an innovative construction method: each house was built from approximately 170 standardized precast concrete panels, fabricated off-site and assembled by crane. The system was sophisticated even by modern standards: panels were cast with integral hollow insulation chambers; casting formwork incorporated an internal sleeve, allowing molds to be "broken" before concrete had completely set; and panels were moved to the site in only two operations (formwork to truck and truck to crane). Atterbury's system influenced the work of mid-1920s European modern architects like Ernst May, who used panelized prefab concrete systems in a number of celebrated experimental housing projects in Frankfurt. In this way Atterbury can be considered a progenitor of the Modern Movement. Atterbury was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1918 as an Associate member, and became a full member in 1940. [show more]
Audubon Boy Number: 41471 Foaled: 1897 Sire: J.J. Audubon Dam: Flaxy by Bourbon Wilkes Bred by: E.P. Weathers of Avon, Kentucky Sold to: James Y. Gatcomb, Concord, New Hampshire Pacing Record: 1:59¼ From Wallace’s American Trotting Register containing the pedigrees of Standard Bred Trotters and Pacers and an Appendix of Non-Standard Animals, by The American Trotting Register Association, Volume XVII, Chicago, 1907, Standard Stallions, p. 153.
Description: Audubon Boy Number: 41471 Foaled: 1897 Sire: J.J. Audubon Dam: Flaxy by Bourbon Wilkes Bred by: E.P. Weathers of Avon, Kentucky Sold to: James Y. Gatcomb, Concord, New Hampshire Pacing Record: 1:59¼ From Wallace’s American Trotting Register containing the pedigrees of Standard Bred Trotters and Pacers and an Appendix of Non-Standard Animals, by The American Trotting Register Association, Volume XVII, Chicago, 1907, Standard Stallions, p. 153. [show more]