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Historic Journal Published 2017 the Merle B Historic Journal Published 2017 The Merle B. Grindle Agency, Blue Hill, serving Hancock County’s insurance needs since 1919, extends congratulations to Mount Desert Island Hospital on its monumental achievement of 120 years of health care service! Merle B. Grindle Agency Insurance• 6 East Blue HillPhoto: Road Bar /Harbor, PO BoxMt. Desert, 814, BlueME, by Hill, Bryant Maine Bradley, cir. 04614 1885 207.374.2871 Historic Journal Mount Desert Island Hospital Summer 2017 CONTENTS ❧ MDI: From Dawnland to Today ..................... 1 Local Artist: Christiane Cullens .....................4 MDI Hospital’s Founding Years .....................6 Timeline of MDI Hospital History ...............9 Local Artist: Mark Kandutsch, MD ..............11 Historic Photo Collage ...................................13 IMAGES Hope from the Ashes ..................................... 16 ❧ Nurses: At the Heart of MDI Hospital ....... 21 MDI Hospital is grateful to the following Local Artist: Jennifer Steen Booher ............. 23 sources for the images used within this Journal: A Legacy of Giving ......................................... 25 r Associated Press r Bar Harbor Historical Society r Getty Images r Hathi Trust r Harvard University: Bar Harbor & Mount Desert Island, compiled by W.B. Lapham r Mount Desert Island Historical Society r Norman B. Leventhal Map Center of Boston Public Library, via Digital Commonwealth r University of California: Bar Harbor, by F. Marion Crawford; Illustrated by C. S. Reinhart Historic Journal Written by Nessa Reifsnyder, Edited r University of California: Wm. Hatteroth’s by Oka Hutchins, Designed by Bethany Roberge Surgical House Illustrated Catalogue MOUNT DESERT ISLAND: FROM DAWNLAND TO TODAY ount Desert Island has been ancestors…[and] celebrated by writers, artists, and the rusticators The word Wabanaki visitors for more than a century. who vacationed But residents and visitors alike there provided a roughly translates to M tread in the well-worn footsteps new opportunity to “The People of the of the Wabanaki, a collection of earn a living while Dawnland,” so named Native American tribes who inhabited the Island remaining true to for millennia before the arrival of European settlers. their heritage.” for the early sunrises More than 13,000 years ago, the Wabanaki set up ❧ in the northeast. seasonal encampments on the shores of MDI, where “Rusticators” were natives hunted, fished, gathered plants and berries, the first wave of and traded. By these residents, our Island was called summer visitors to “Pemetic,” a term referring to the distinctive range MDI. They came of mountains visible from many vantage points. north by steamship and railroad and horse-drawn Centuries later, the first French visitors led by Samuel carriage, in search of respite from the hot summer de Champlain called this place “L’île des Monts weather to our south. Sherman’s Bar Harbor Guide of Déserts”—another name invoking the mountainous 1890 described the paradise that awaited them: landscape, later anglicized to Mount Desert Island. ❧ “…[T]he summer days at Bar Harbor will be one uninterrupted round of health-giving pleasure and Colonial immigrants began settling on MDI in exercise, with nights of cool repose for which the 1760, at the invitation of Governor enforced dweller in the city would almost barter his Francis Bernard of Massachusetts— soul’s salvation.” in an era when Maine was part of ❧ that commonwealth’s holdings. After the Revolutionary War, Some rusticators depicted homesteaders came in increasing MDI’s wilderness and water numbers to farm, fish, lumber, views in evocative artistic and quarry granite. Wabanaki works that increased the fame people still maintained their and appeal of this retreat. connection to the Island, too: Newspapers and magazines setting up in-town markets picked up the story, not only for handmade wares such as describing the fresh air “like ash fancy baskets, sweetgrass champagne,” the “majestic glove boxes, and birchbark cliffs” and “bold, rugged beauty,” log carriers; working as guides but also the emerging social in the woods and waters; and landscape, especially popular presenting music and dance for young people. Immense performances in venues around wooden hotels with sweeping Bar Harbor. As the Maine verandas provided lodging Memory Network explains, “For and meals in downtown Bar them, the island was a familiar Harbor, and as the Illustrated place long frequented by their American magazine observed, Mt. Desert Island from “The Bluffs” “By an unwritten law evening 1 Harbor Medical and Surgical Hospital in 1897. They contributed ideas, expertise, labor, and funds… served on boards and committees…hosted festive balls and chamber concerts to benefit the Hospital… and made meaningful bequests that still yield support every year. The energy and drive of our founders was boundless—and their original concept of a small, in- patient hospital grew quickly, adapting to the acute need for medical care in our coastal community. dress was strictly ❧ tabooed, and the women spent their Bar Harbor’s fabled “Golden Age” gave way to a more days roaming over egalitarian seasonal economy during the twentieth the hills or canoeing century. Today, vacationers come to MDI from all or sailing on the over the world, ranging over the hills and paddling the waters in blue flannel waters, enjoying the vistas and attractions of Acadia dresses, with their National Park. When the Bar Harbor Medical and Surgical Hospital was renamed Mount Desert Island Buckboard Riding male companions in rough [shirts] and Hospital in 1931, it symbolized this change: no longer knickerbockers…a happy, careless, go-as-you-please just an in-patient surgical facility with limited bed out-of-door summer life.” space, we were serving patients at every stage of life and ❧ health. Our Island remains a favorite place for those who love the outdoors, and our Hospital continues to Moneyed families from an array of American (and care for those who live, work, and play here. European) cities turned their attentions to this idyllic resort in the latter days of the nineteenth century. In 1896, the Chicago Tribune marked this shift: “The canoe and buckboard life which distinguished early Bar Harbor, when college boys and girls climbed the mountains, paddled on the bay, and sat on the steps at Rodick’s [hotel] together, has almost disappeared before cottage life and its more luxurious ways.” Cottage life centered on grand, shingled homes with stunning views, and a fleet of yachts that plied Frenchman’s Bay. The cottages had storied names: Clovercroft, Edenbrae, Devilstone, As-you-like-it, Reverie Cove, Bide-a-While, Thirlstane, Kenarden— just to name a few. At the peak of Bar Harbor’s summer colony, there were scores of these edifices, and a bustling downtown shopping district to fill their household needs. ❧ Political figures, musicians, industrialists, CEOs, scientists, university professors, physicians, artists, attorneys—Bar Harbor was home to a heady mix of summer people and their families and friends. Simultaneously, many of MDI’s year-round families were finding success as hoteliers, bankers, lawyers, 120 Years Strong! Congratulations to your community from ours, doctors, and retail shop owners. All of these Islanders Southwest Harbor Public Library played a key role in the establishment of the Bar 2 “We are unique on Mount Desert Island in many ways, but I am unaware of a community of this size which is fortunate enough to have the high CLASSIC MAINE DINING quality of health care so readily available Maine Lobster • The Freshest Fish Steaks • Chops • Slow-Roasted Prime Rib that we enjoy. It Local Seafood • Fresh Salads must be preserved, Extensive Wine List maintained and advanced in all its aspects.” RESERVATIONS GLADLY ACCEPTED Lunch and Dinner daily 11a m –10 p m ­—Robert­D.­Wilson,­MD,­1977 Happy Hour 3–6pm in the Galley Lounge 17 Main Street Bar Harbor, Maine Half a block from the town pier “I have had the privilege of taking care Since 1986 of the same patients for decades and taking ’ care of families of galynsbarharbor.comGal y n 207-288-9706s patients, and extended families—and­really­ getting into the community in that way. The real joy of it is taking care of folks long-term.”­ ­—O.­Lee­Haynes,­MD,­2012 “Nursing is a part of Congratulations on your you before you even 120th Anniversary! start. It’s not so much a profession as it is Thank you for delivering quality health services, with care to the Mount Desert Island community. a lifestyle. A nurse is a person who is interested in people, in how to help people. You take care of the body, the soul www.bhbt.com • 888-853-7100 and the spirit.” ­—Rose­(Suzon)­Liscomb,­RN,­1995 3 SAND BEACH WEST BY CHRISTIANE CULLENS Media: 14” X 11” acrylic, deep edge canvas Christiane has taught at Mount Desert Island High School for eighteen years and finds that engaging art, nature, and community are integral to the healing process and excellent health. 4 5 MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL’S FOUNDING YEARS: A VISION FOR A VILLAGE HOSPITAL n the 1890s, a determined coalition as the Bar­ Harbor­ Record reported. Thereafter, on of locals and summer residents September 25th, the Bar Harbor Medical and Surgical held several meetings to air their Hospital was officially incorporated. Seven trustees concerns about access to medical were elected to solicit funds, select an appropriate I services on Mount Desert Island. building site, and construct a hospital to meet the At that time the nearest hospital Island’s needs:
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