Dancing at the Mill :Two Centuries of Life on Mount Desert Island- Dobbs Productions
Dancing at the Mill
Two Centuries of Life on Mount Desert Island
In 1761 Abraham Somes sailed to Mt. Desert Island and settled in a sheltered harbor at the head of Somes Sound. This film celebrates the generations who have followed. Using the island's rich troves of historical photographs as well as early film footage, the film paints a picture of two centuries of daily life on the island. The film was written by Gunnar Hansen with music scored and performed by Bob Habib and the narration by Jack Perkins. It was filmed, edited and produced by Jeff Dobbs Productions, with support from the Mount Desert Island Historical Society and the Savage family.
Acadia National Park | Wikipedia audio article
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Acadia National Park
00:04:35 1 History
00:04:43 1.1 Native people
00:08:08 1.2 Exploration
00:09:43 1.3 Settlement
00:11:14 1.4 Rusticators
00:12:03 1.5 Cottagers
00:12:49 1.6 Park origins
00:16:14 1.7 Fire of 1947
00:17:32 2 Geography
00:19:36 2.1 Features
00:21:52 3 Geology
00:23:02 3.1 Bedrock formation
00:25:01 3.2 Glaciation
00:26:41 3.3 Erosion and weathering
00:27:58 3.4 Mass wasting and slope failure
00:28:52 3.5 Seismic activity
00:29:16 4 Paleontology
00:30:55 5 Climate
00:32:59 6 Ecology
00:34:45 6.1 Flora
00:38:10 6.2 Fauna
00:42:54 7 Recreation
00:45:43 8 Visitor centers
00:46:26 9 Schoodic Education and Research Center
00:47:12 10 Friends of Acadia
00:48:11 11 See also
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Acadia National Park is an American national park located in the state of Maine, southwest of Bar Harbor. The park preserves about half of Mount Desert Island, many adjacent smaller islands, and part of the Schoodic Peninsula on the coast of Maine. Acadia was initially designated Sieur de Monts National Monument by proclamation of President Woodrow Wilson in 1916. Sieur de Monts was renamed and redesignated Lafayette National Park by Congress in 1919—the first national park in the United States east of the Mississippi River and the only one in the Northeastern United States. The park was renamed Acadia National Park in 1929. More than 3.5 million people visited the park in 2017.
Native Americans of the Algonquian nations have inhabited the area called Acadia for at least 12,000 years. They traded furs for European goods when French, English, and Dutch ships began arriving in the early 17th century. The Wabanaki Confederacy has held an annual Native American Festival in Bar Harbor since 1989. Samuel de Champlain named the island Isle des Monts Deserts (Island of Barren Mountains) in 1604. The island was granted to Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac by Louis XIV of France in 1688, then ceded to England in 1713. Summer visitors, nicknamed rusticators, arrived in 1855, followed by wealthy families, nicknamed cottagers as their large houses were quaintly called cottages. Charles Eliot is credited with the idea for the park. George B. Dorr, the Father of Acadia National Park, along with Eliot's father Charles W. Eliot, supported the idea through donations of land, and advocacy at the state and federal levels. John D. Rockefeller Jr. financed the construction of carriage roads from 1915 to 1940. A wildfire in 1947 burned much of the park and destroyed 237 houses, including 67 of the millionaires’ cottages.
The park includes mountains, an ocean coastline, coniferous and deciduous woodlands, lakes, ponds, and wetlands encompassing a total of 49,075 acres (76.7 sq mi; 198.6 km2) as of 2017. Key sites on Mount Desert Island include Cadillac Mountain—the tallest mountain on the eastern coastline and one of the first places in the United States where one can watch the sunrise—a rocky coast featuring Thunder Hole where waves crash loudly into a crevasse around high tides, a sandy swimming beach called Sand Beach, and numerous lakes and ponds. Jordan Pond features the glacially rounded North and South Bubbles (rôche moutonnées) at its northern end, while Echo Lake has the only freshwater swimming beach in the park. Somes Sound is a five-mile (8 km) long fjard formed during a glacial period that reshaped the entire island to its present form, including the U-shaped valleys containing the many ponds and lakes. The Bass Harbor Head Light is situated above a steep, rocky headland on the southwest coast—the only lighthouse on the island.
The park protects the habitats of 37 mammalian species including black bears, moose and white-tailed deer, seven reptilian species including milk snakes and snapping turtles, eleven amphibian species including wood frogs and spotted salamanders, 33 fish species including rainbow smelt and brook trout, and as many as 331 birds including various species of raptors, songbir ...
Baker Island Boat Cruise
Each summer, from mid-June through mid-September, a local company offers a five-hour boat cruise to remote, ocean-sculpted Baker Island, as interpreted by an NPS park ranger. A short jaunt on a motorized launch is required to complete the journey, however. Since some visitors with mobility impairments may not be able to participate in the experience, the park commissioned this video by Will Greene, a local filmmaker. Learn more about all of the park's guided tours and boat cruises at ...