title: The Magic Ship
author: Paretti, Sandra
description: Summers in Bar Harbor, Maine, were by no means dull.  But the arrival of a big German cruise ship in 1914 loaded with passengers and crew caused a whirlwind of parties, romance, and splendor.  For Temperance C. Butler and her innocent granddaughter Anne, for Gloria Lindsay, an ex-Ziegfeld girl, for Edith Connors, whose mysterious past was tied with the ship's captain, and Dolly Higgins, the Bar Harbor librarian, it was a magical summer, a season of the heart they'd never forget.