description: This book is as fascinating as going through your grandmother's attic, and it smells a whole lot better! And even at that, most of us do not have grandmothers whose attics are filled with as much fascinating stuff as Irene Morse Bartlett's. Marie Locke found her grandmother's attic captivating during her summers on Little Cranberry Island as a child. She discovered an eclectic mix of merchandise from the Island's turn-of-the-century general store, as well as glass plate negatives from photographs of the Island taken by Bartlett's father, Fred Morse, around the turn-of-the-century. From these childhood explorations of the attic came a grown person's curiosity about life on Little Cranberry Island at the turn-of-the-century. So, Marie Locke asked her grandmother, Irene Morse Bartlett, to tell her about what life was like on the Island when she was a child. The reminiscences of Irene Bartlett illustrate the photographs, rather than the other way around. Combined with the Morse photographs, and pictures of the objects of everyday life as found in a general store, these Memories of a Maine Island make for fascinating reading.
language: English
title: Memories of a Maine Island: Turn-Of-The-Century Tales & Photographs
titlecomplete: Memories of a Maine Island: Turn-Of-The-Century Tales & Photographs (Northeast Folklore, V. 33)
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publisher: Maine Folklife Center