Publications

Recollections of Southwest Harbor, Maine
1885-1894 by Jessie L. Parker, 1955

Edited by John P. and Rebecca Burnham
Copyright 2010
$25

Our Neighborhood - Manset and Seawall (2015)

160 pages with compact disc. 8 ½” x 11”.
Features 365 buildings with comprehensive deed work; 125 photos.
View the order form and download (includes other items from our gift shop).

The Sou’west Voyage, our newsletter

All members of the Southwest Harbor Historical Society receive an annual print subscription to The Sou’west Voyage, published three times a year. Digital versions are available below, beginning with the latest edition.

  • April 2026

    Interview with Jane Kenney by Susan Buell; “About Bob Stanley” by G. Bernice Hancock Klausky

  • November 2025

    Highlighting the life of Muriel F. Davis, R.N.; Update on Historic Cemeteries Work

    August 2025

    Pemetic High School Reunion 2025; Highlights of Summer Programs

    April 2025

    Hotels of Manset and Southwest Harbor, by Julie Fernald; Photos from Vintage Christmas

  • November 2024
    Sandra Norwood Gott and Hazel Parritt Norwood Button Collection; Vintage Christmas at the Museum 2024; Southwest Harbor Medical Center; The Pauline & Norman Leach; Pink Flamingo Parade 2024; Boston Post Cane Birthday

    August 2024
    Our Lives - Bernice Klausky; Stained Glass Windows and Front Door Restoration

    April 2024

    Betty Allen (continued from previous edition); Collections Acquisitions: Table Top Tube Radio, Pin Cushion Doll, Crocheted Apron, Postal Scale, 2 Trunks, Set of Measuring Spoons in a Flower Holder, "Secrets of North Atlantic Islands" by Edward Rowe Snow, and a table top display case.

  • November 2023
    Our Lives: Jim and Maxine Carroll, by Susan Buell; New Boston Cane Holder, G. Eugene Walls

    August 2023

    Our Lives, by Susan Buell; Recent Acquisitions; Flamingo Festival 2023

    May 2023

    An Islander’s Perspective: The Carroll Homestead, by Julie Fernald; A New-Found Islander’s History, by Julie Fernald

  • November 2022
    The Changing Storefronts [of Sawyer’s Market]

    August 2022
    Do Flamingos Fly?, Flamingo Festival photos, Manset Meeting House Open House

    May 2022
    Boston Post Cane 2022, Odd Happenings: Southwest Harbor, the IOOF & Rebekah’s, and our Shared History, The Bell and the Belfry: A Glimpse at our Bell and its Recent Make-over

  • November 2021
    A brief history of the Moorings Inn, S.O.S. updates, summer involvement, acquisitions, etc.

    May 2021
    Boston Cane goes to LaVerne Redlon, Save Our Steeple project, “The Best of Chris’s Pond” by Bernice Klausky, “Southwest Harbor and Pemetic” poem by Pemetic First Grade.

  • November 2020
    ”Pemetic Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows” by Henryetta Ponczek, “November = Thanksgiving = The Mayflower = Descendants” by Henryetta Ponczek, Taste of Old

    June 2020
    Baker Island and Mt. Desert Rock Lighthouses

    February 2020
    Mom and Pop Grocery Stores, Northeast Document Recovery Center Inservice, Town Meeting recollections

  • November 2019
    Clark’s Southwest Dairy

    June 2019
    ”Capital Campaign” by Patty Pinkham, “Our National Pastime” by Henryetta Ponczek

    February 2019
    The Corner of Main St. and Clark Point Rd., Historic Seawall Campground

  • November 2018
    Manset Union Church, “White’s Basketball Court” by Leighton Wass

    June 2018
    Appalachian Mountain Club, St. John’s Episcopal Church in Southwest Harbor, Fernald Point Prehistoric Site, Recollections of Hancock County Fair

    February 2018
    Dr. Kendall Kittredge; “Snow, Snow, and More Snow;” The Claremont Hotel

  • November 2017
    Manset Union Church, “Tracing One’s Lineage” by Rebecca Dow Burnham

    June 2017
    The Causeway Club, Historic Edgecliff

  • November 2016
    Warren Worcester (local veteran), Southwest Harbor memories by Leighton Wass

    June 2016
    ”1916 Steamboats, Horse & Buggy, and Autos,” “1916 Schools,” “1916 Miscellanea,” Postcards from the Past

    February 2016
    ”Telephones” by Henryetta Ponczek, The Old Burying Ground

  • November 2015
    Annabelle’s, Boston Post Cane presentation to Mary Orcutt Harkins

    June 2015
    Southwest Harbor Band, Overseers of the Poor

    February 2015
    J.R. Stanley Ice Sluice, Addison Packing Company

  • November 2014
    Simeon “Sim” Mayo

    June 2014
    Beech Hill; Murray Johnston’s recollections of Mt. Desert and the Manset shore

    February 2014
    ”Frances Parker” schooner, Maine Granite Historical Society Museum, “John Brown, US Navy Revolutionary War Veteran”

  • November 2013
    Friendship sloops

    June 2013
    Raymond Morris receives Boston Post Cane; J.L. Stanley, Businessman; Summer, At Last!

    February 2013
    Winter Pastimes, 1885-1894; Chris’s Pond; Favorite Recipes

  • May 2012
    Southwest Harbor Schools: A Short History, by Henryetta Ponczek; “J.T. Morse”

    January 2012
    Miscellaneous photos and postcards

  • September 2011
    Recipes from the Past: Blueberry Pudding

    April 2011
    Recipes from the Past: Clam Patties

    January 2011

  • May 2010

    February 2010
    1917 Southwest Harbor Freshman Class; Douglas Norwood recollections

  • November 2009
    Your Memories Shared With Others

    August 2009
    Way of Life by Bill Benson

    April 2009

    January 2009

  • Summer 2008
    Boston Post Cane history

    Spring 2008

  • Winter 2007

    Fall 2007

    Spring 2007

  • Fall 2006

    Summer 2006

    Spring 2006

  • Winter 2005