PHOTO GALLERY – SLIDESHOW – Swan Island in the Kennebec

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FEEDING time
SWANGO WINDOW – TAKING PANES EXHIBIT – RICHMOND, MAINE
SWANGO SIGN KENNEBEC RIVER
ISLAND CUSTODIANS 1955-1973
MAIN STREET PERKINS TOWN
EAGLE NEST 1960’s
ORIGINAL CORN CRIB
VIEWING TOWER
ISLAND MAP
WHERE EAGLES SOAR
MAIN STREET, SWAN ISLAND, MAINE
VIEW AT SOUTH END OF ISLAND TOWARD MERRYMEETING BAY
ISLAND FERRY
MAXWELL-TARR HSE
PRIEST-BLEN HOUSE
MAXWELL-TARR HSE
PRINCESS KENNEBECCA
EPSON MFP image

THANK YOU ED FRIEDMAN of

Point of View Helicopter Services for providing aerial views and other photos, interjected with BLEN family photos….

http://www.friendsofmerrymeetingbay.org

http://www.pointofviewhelicopterservices.com

A scenic view of a river with a bridge in the background.

**PARKER HARRIS BLEN**
**ISLAND CARETAKER 1958-1972**

A woman in a pink plaid dress feeds a deer on the steps of a house.

MARION FITCH BLEN feeding FREDDY THE FREELOADER

FIELD OF TURKEYS

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

A painting of a bald eagle with its wings spread, poised above a small brown rabbit against a turquoise background.

EAGLE swooping down on a jumping rabbit – painting by T. Blen Parker

A STROLL DOWN THE “PERKINS HIGHWAY”

**CORN CRIB** **along the PERKINS HIGHWAY**

**VIEW OF MERRYMEETING BAY AT THE SOUTH END OF THE ISLAND**

CHANNEL BETWEEN SWAN AND LITTLE SWAN ISLANDS
WHERE SEVERAL DUMARESQUE DROWNINGS OCCURRED

PERKINS HIGHWAY AT THE HALFWAY POINT –

ONLY chimney remains of the Maxwell-Tarr house on right

**CHIMNEY REMAINS in the RESIDUE of FORMER MAXWELL-TARR-HIGGINS HOUSE**

**LILLY-WADE HOUSE & BARN WHERE THE TURKEY VULTURES ROOST**

**1960’S EAGLE NEST** – measures **six feet deep, six feet across**

SPOTTY FAWN in the “sick pen” at the Lilly-Wade house

TRANSPORT BOX FOR DEER
AND JERRY THE MOOSE

**JERRY THE MOOSE – TRANSPORTED TO SWAN ISLAND**

JERRY THE MOOSE – resident of Swan Island Wildlife Preserve enjoyed many friends visiting,
LATER LIVED AT BRONX ZOO

**FAILED POWER LINE REPAIR COURTESY OF PARKER BLEN**

“RESTING ROCK” NEAR THE CABLE FERRY TO DRESDEN (RIGHT),
UPRIVER VIEW OF OLD GREEN SWING BRIDGE **under construction**

PARKER & MARION BLEN
HOST FAMILY THANKSGIVING

**POLLEY-ROBINSON-POWELL HOUSE & LITTLE WELL-PUMP-HOUSE. STEVE POWELL’S PART-TIME RESIDENCE WHILE BIOLOGIST ON THE ISLAND**

**TUBBS-REED HOUSE** **on a re-enactors campout weekend**

PAST PRESIDENT of FOSI –
DOCTOR BRUCE TREMBLAY, RIP

**SMELT FISHING ON THE RIVER** – **IN A 6’X6′ SMELT SHACK**

**SMELTS CAUGHT IN THE KENNEBEC TIDEWATER**

ICY KENNEBEC –
COAST GUARD CUTTERS – **DISLODGE ICE BUILDUPS BELOW THE RICHMOND-DRESDEN BRIDGE**

**LOOKING TOWARD DRESDEN from the EAST side of the island, across from where the lookout tower stands today.**

**LILLY-WADE HOUSE ROOF** – **deteriorating badly**

**TREE DAMAGE** **beside of the Lilly-Wade house**

DINSMORE HOUSE on the Dresden shore, SEE THE CABLE FERRY LANDING

**DUMARESQUE HOUSE** – BUILT BY DR. SYLVESTER GARDINER.
LATER THE SITE OF DR. JOHN HEBBARD’S SWANGO HEALTH SPA

**MILEAGE TO THE SOUTH END OF SWAN ISLAND** **WHERE THEOBOLD & NOBLE-WHIDDEN HOUSES ONCE STOOD**

PERIOD RE-ENACTORS WKND
TUBBS-REED HOUSE

**TUBBS-REED HOUSE STANDS AT THE NORTHMOST END OF SWAN ISLAND**

**VINTAGE METAL PARTS OF A VEHICLE LONG PAST**

**FERRY TAKEN OUT OF THE KENNEBEC RIVER FOR THE LAST TIME**

**CINNAMON’S REFLECTING ROCK – where the DRESDEN CABLE FERRY CROSSED**

**KENNEBEC VIEW UPRIVER** **– NEW BRIDGE OVER THE OLD GREEN STEEL GREEN SWING BRIDGE SHOWING**

DR. SYLVESTER GARDINER
BUILT THE HOUSE FOR HIS DAUGHTER WHO MARRIED PHILLIP DUMARESQUE.
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 – with woodshed attached

**SKOW TRANSPORT in the 1960s**– 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.

**A DAILY VISITOR AT THE KITCHEN WINDOW**

SCHOOL BUS SERVED AS
ISLAND CARAVAN-TROLLEY IN THE 1960-1970S

LITTLE RED SCHOOL HOUSE
TOWN MEETINGS WERE ALSO HELD HERE

**RED SCHOOLHOUSE – MOVED ACROSS THE RIVER TO RICHMOND, USED AS AN ELL FOR AN EXISTING HOME**

**OLD SKOW TRANSPORT – PARKER BLEN & FRIEND**, **RETURNING THE TRUCK TO THE ISLAND AFTER MECHANICAL REPAIRS**

OLD GREEN SWING BRIDGE
OPEN OVER THE KENNEBEC FOR A PASSING WATERCRAFT

UPRIVER VIEW
FROM DUNBAR-BLEN HOUSE FRONT LAWN 1960’S

**LOGS UNLOADING IN RICHMOND 2017** – **$3.2 MILLION**, **TAKEN FROM SWAN ISLAND DURING THE MASSIVE BLOWDOWN STORM**

**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!

A serene landscape painting featuring colorful chairs in the foreground, overlooking a tranquil body of water. A person in a boat is seen in the distance, surrounded by tree-covered hills under a cloudy sky.

ANOTHER FOGGY SUNRISE, from Richmond Waterfront Park, in painting form

AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT SWIMS AROUND HERE IN THE KENNEBEC RIVER

WILD RICE IN MERRYMEETING BAY at the SOUTH END of the island.

DIORAMA at the DRESDEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY of ice harvesting on the Kennebec

DIORAMA MODEL – DRESDEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY

ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIG-CHOICE VIEW SITE – across from Swan Island

LOWER FIELD PANORAMA FROM CHOICE VIEW FARM

A WILDLIFE SANCTUARY!

RICHMOND POST CARD – VIEWED FROM SWAN ISLAND

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

CHIEF ABAGADASSET WALL MASK – BASHABA OF THE KENEBIS WHO LIVED ON LITTLE SWAN ISLAND

A NIGHT VIEW OF THE KENNEBEC AT RICHMOND TOWN PARK

LOGGING EQUIPMENT TRAVERSING THE KENNEBEC

SOUTH END OF THE ISLAND – MERRYMEETING BAY VIEW

CHARLOTTE THEOBALD, b 1794 -WIFE OF CHARLES

ICE CUTTERS BREAKING UP THE KENNEBEC PRIOR TO ICE-OUT

DEER IN THE FIELD AT DUSK

AN OIL TANKER HEADING TO HALLOWELL

BETWEEN LITTLE SWAN & CAMPGROUND ON ISLAND

VIEW AT SOUTH END OF THE ISLAND TOWARD MERRYMEETING BAY

ISLAND VIEW OF OLD RICHMOND-DRESDEN BRIDGE

SWANGO WINDOW – TAKING PANES EXHIBIT 2008 – RICHMOND, MAINE

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