AERIAL VIEW OF TUBBS-REED HOUSE AND DUNBAR-BLEN HOUSE
TRAINING WALL LOOKING NORTHWARD (SWAN ISLAND TO THE LEFT)
NEAR WHERE THE EASTERN RIVER MEETS UP IN THE KENNEBEC RIVER
NEWLY COVERED PICNIC TABLE ROOF
A STROLL DOWN THE “PERKINS HIGHWAY”
CORN CRIB BLOWDOWN RESIDUE 2017
VIEW OF MERRYMEETING BAY AT THE SOUTH END OF THE ISLAND
CHANNEL BETWEEN SWAN AND LITTLE SWAN ISLANDS WHERE SEVERAL DUMARESQUE DROWNINGS OCCURRED
RESIDUE OF FORMER MAXWELL-TARR-HIGGINS HOUSE
LILLY-WADE HOUSE & BARN WHERE THE TURKEY VULTURES ROOST
FRONT VIEW OF THE LILLY WADE HOUSE
STURGEON SCALES
KENNY EDGECOMB – STURGEON FISHERMAN
VINE CRAWLS ACROSS POWER LINES
FEEDING TIME
WILLIAM LILLY HOUSE
1960’S EAGLE NEST
PET BUNNIES ON THE PIAZZA
STEVE POWELL – GOOSE
MEASURING WINGSPAN OF A GOOSE
TRANSPORT BOX FOR DEER AND JERRY THE MOOSE
JERRY THE MOOSE – TRANSPORTED TO SWAN ISLAND
JERRY THE MOOSE LATER LIVED AT BRONX ZOO
MOOSE PETTING
FAILED POWER LINE REPAIR COURTESY OF PARKER BLEN
“RESTING ROCK” NEAR THE CABLE FERRY TO DRESDEN (RIGHT), UPRIVER VIEW OF OLD GREEN SWING BRIDGE
PARKER & MARION BLEN HOST FAMILY THANKSGIVING
TALLMAN GRAVESTONE
TALLMAN STONE
DAVID REED-DIED IN PERKINS
SOUTHBOUND GEESE
POLLEY-ROBINSON-POWELL HOUSE & LITTLE WELL-PUMP-HOUSE
POLLY POWELL & JERRY THE MOOSE
2017 BLOWDOWN DAMAGE
DRUSILLA REED
TUBBS-REED HOUSE
DUNBAR-BLEN HOUSE
PAST PRESIDENT of FOSI – DOCTOR BRUCE TREMBLAY
BABY EAGLE
EAGLE NEST
CANADA GOOSE
SMELT FISHING ON THE RIVER
SMELTS CAUGHT IN THE KENNEBEC TIDEWATER
ICY KENNEBEC – COAST GUARD CUTTERS
SUNSET PADDLECAMPGROUND LEAN-TOCORN CRIBDEER IN THE FIELD
LOOKING TOWARD DRESDEN
LILLY-WADE HOUSE ROOF
TREE DAMAGEPERKINS HIGHWAYLILLY-WADE HOUSE
DINSMORE HOUSE on the Dresden shore, SEE THE CABLE FERRY LANDING
PERKINS HWY TOWARD MERRYMEETING BAYDUMARESQUE HOUSE
CURTIS CEMETERY FENCE
RALPH REED LIVED & DIED IN PERKINSMAXWELL-TARR HOUSE
MAXWELL-TARR-HIGGINS HOUSE
MAXWELL-TARR HSESOUTH END OF ISLAND
FOREST FERNS
CAMPGROUND DOCK – ISLAND FERRY
BICYCLE RENTALS
LEAN-TO AT CAMPGROUND
PERIOD RE-ENACTORS WKND TUBBS-REED HOUSE
PERIOD RE-ENACTORS FIREARMS
TUBBS-REED HOUSE
VINTAGE METAL PARTS OF A VEHICLE LONG PAST
ISLAND MAP
CHAPEL
FERRY OUT OF THE KENNEBEC RIVER
CINNAMON’S REFLECTING ROCK – where the DRESDEN CABLE FERRY CROSSEDA GRAND DAUGHTER (MICHALA) KAYAKING
KENNEBEC VIEW UPRIVER
DR. SYLVESTER GARDINER BUILT THE HOUSE FOR HIS DAUGHTER WHO MARRIED PHILLIP DUMARESQUE, (it was originally NOT a saltbox, converted in the renovation of 1968-SEE PHOTOS BELOW). Later DR. HEBBARD operated a health spa named SWANGO, modeled after the Swedborgian belief that healthy food, exercise, and outdoor living would heal all ills. Visitors from all over the world came here to heal illnesses.
TUBBS-REED HOUSE
ORIGINAL SWANEE FERRY
SKOW TRANSPORT – Parker Blen ferrying over the snub-nosed Jeep. T. Blen Parker sits in SWANEE which Parker used to power the steel skow.WELL SWEEP used to collect water. One was on the front lawn of the Wade homestead.
SUPPER TIME FOR THE CREW
A VISITOR AT THE KITCHEN WINDOW
SCHOOL BUS PRE-DATES ISLAND CARAVAN-TROLLEY
DUNBAR-BLEN HOUSE ON THE HILL
LITTLE RED SCHOOL HOUSE TOWN MEETINGS WERE ALSO HELD HERE
RED SCHOOLHOUSE
OLD SKOW TRANSPORT – PARKER BLEN & FRIEND
OLD GREEN SWING BRIDGE OPEN OVER THE KENNEBEC FOR A PASSING WATERCRAFT
UPRIVER VIEW FROM DUNBAR-BLEN HOUSE 1960’S
DEER WITH A CROOKED HORN
EAGLE NEST 1960’s
LOGS UNLOADING IN RICHMOND 2017
HARVESTING LOGS FROM SWAN ISLAND BY CRANE
SUSIE VISITING THE KITCHEN WINDOW EXPECTING SUPPER
FEEDING TIME – FROM A GINGER ALE BOTTLE FITTED WITH A GOAT NIPPLE!
FOGGY SUNRISE
PILEATED WOODPECKER WORK
CANADA GOOSE
AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT SWIMS AROUND HERE IN THE KENNEBEC RIVER
ICY RIVER KAYAKING
MUDDY DRIFTWOOD STUMP
MATURE BALD EAGLE
WILD RICE IN MERRYMEETING BAY at the SOUTH END of the island.
MATRONLY SNAPPING TURTLE
DIORAMA at the DRESDEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY of ice harvesting on the Kennebec
DIORAMA MODEL – DRESDEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
BULLFROG
ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIG-CHOICE VIEW SITE – across from Swan Island
BRIEF HISTORY SWAN ISLAND
LOWER FIELD PANORAMA FROM CHOICE VIEW FARM
RICHMOND VILLAGE VIEW FROM SWAN ISLAND
A WILDLIFE SANCTUARY!
WILD RICE IN MERRYMEETING BAY
TUBBS-REED HOUSE
ICY RIVERBANKS, MELTING
ISLAND CAMPGROUND AERIAL VIEW
RICHMOND POST CARD – VIEWED FROM SWAN ISLAND
WILD TRILLIUM
STURGEON FACTS
DIORAMA OF ICE HARVESTING at the DRESDEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
SWAN ISLAND FORMER WOODEN DOCK – OLD FERRY/SKOW
CHANNEL BETWEEN LITTLE SWAN AND SWAN, IN FRONT OF DUMARESQUE HOUSE
BLAZING SUNRISE OVER THE KENNEBEC
PRINCESS KENNEBECCA WALL MASK
CHIEF ABAGADASSET WALL MASK – BASHABA OF THE KENEBIS WHO LIVED ON LITTLE SWAN ISLAND
A NIGHT VIEW OF THE KENNEBEC AT RICHMOND TOWN PARK
CEMETERY FUNGI
LOGGING EQUIPMENT TRAVERSING THE KENNEBEC
SOUTH END OF THE ISLAND – MERRYMEETING BAY VIEW
DUNBAR-BLEN HOUSE, “STAFF HOUSE”
A CALM RIVER PADDLE
STORMY SKIES
EAGLE FACTS
BLEN FAMILY VISITING AT THANKSGIVING
STAFF-DUNBAR-BLEN HOUSE
ICE CAKES DURING ICE-OUT
CHARLOTTE THEOBALD, b 1794 -WIFE OF CHARLES
ONCE A CHAPEL, USED FOR STAFF MEETINGS
CORN CRIB
DEER CRATE – TRANSPORTED DEER + MOOSE
ICE CUTTERS BREAKING UP THE KENNEBEC PRIOR TO ICE-OUT
DEER IN THE FIELD AT DUSK
AN OIL TANKER HEADING TO HALLOWELL
EAGLE IN FLIGHT
BETWEEN LITTLE SWAN & CAMPGROUND ON ISLAND
VIEW AT SOUTH END OF THE ISLAND TOWARD MERRYMEETING BAY
EAGLE NEST 1960’s
ORIGINAL CORN CRIB
ISLAND CUSTODIANS 1955-1973
AVON CALLING?
ISLAND VIEW OF OLD RICHMOND-DRESDEN BRIDGE
MAIN STREET PERKINS TOWN
SWANGO SIGN
KENNEBEC RIVER
SWANGO WINDOW – TAKING PANES EXHIBIT 2008 – RICHMOND, MAINE
