Name/Title
Scrapbook PageEntry/Object ID
2005.010.9038Scope and Content
This scrapbook page, which is actually just thin cardboard, is home to a number of newspaper clippings. One article announces valedictorian and salutatorian of the years graduation. Leslie Rolerson III and Mary Jo Pendleton recieved those honors respectively. Another article addresses the story of Mrs. Ethel Fairfield, 87 at the time of the article's publising. She had been the only woman aboard the schooner Henry B. Fiske when it made a record-breaking run from Brunswick, Georgia to East Boston. Mrs. Fairfield started visiting Islesboro when she was six and gives an account of arriving at Ryder's Cove on a steam ship.