The Baked Bean Supper Cookbook Commemorating 10 Years of Community Suppers Baked Bean Supper Cookbook Editorial Team Mount Desert Island Historical Society Program Committee Kathy MacLeod, Committee Chair William Horner, M.D., Board President Pauline Angione Peter Collier Elise Frank Nicole Ouellette Leah Lucey, Director of Operations Raney Bench, Executive Director Special thanks to the community members who contributed their recipes and donated their dishes over the past 10 years. ©2021 by Mount Desert Island Historical Society. All rights reserved. Please address all inquiries to: Mount Desert Island Historical Society PO Box 653 Mount Desert, ME 04660
[email protected] www.mdihistory.org 2 IN MEMORIAM RAYMOND STROUT <> An Extraordinary Man On Friday, November 6, 2020 our island communities lost a giant of our collective history. Raymond Strout, Class of 1959, Bar Harbor High School died quietly in his home on Russell Farm Road in the Emery District of rural Bar Harbor, whence he had come. He had a passion for island history. It was, simply put, his life’s work. He was an oracle of sorts and was the go-to man for anything to do with Bar Harbor history, in particular. He had a mysterious collection that was sequestered away in an unpretentious building down behind the old Ahlblad’s Paint Shop. He presided over this mostly hidden trove from an old tilt -back wooden office chair, from which he would answer softly and knowingly your question and inevitably offer you a “teaser” about a rare document or photograph he had come by. “Oh, would you like to see the guest register from the 1856 season of the Agamont House?” Raymond was extremely generous to people of all stripes, from organizers of the latest Bar Harbor High School Reunion to the serious researcher.