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Disaster at the Bar Harbor Ferry - Maine's Worst Maritime Tragedy (Paperback)
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Disaster at the Bar Harbor Ferry - Maine's Worst Maritime Tragedy (Paperback)
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Loot Price R380
Discovery Miles 3 800
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"Sunday, August 6, 1899, is a date that for many years will be held
in memory as signalizing the most dreadful accident that has ever
occurred within the boundaries of the state of Maine." Bangor Daily
Commercial, August 7, 1899 In an era when the only means of travel
to the new, glamorous, and growing resort of Bar Harbor was through
a small, isolated, rural-yet-elegant point of land on the mainland
in the small town of Hancock, Disaster at Mount Desert Ferry tells
the true story of what was, at the time, Maine's deadliest
disaster. The heartbreaking tale starts with the arrival of a train
overcrowded with passengers anxious to be among the first to cross
the bay and their rush for a ferry with too few seats, turning a
casual summer Sunday outing into a scene of chaos, tragedy, death
and heroism, occurring as quickly as the break of a wooden
gangplank. Disaster at Mount Desert Ferry tells not only the
complete story of the people and the events of that day, but of a
time and way of life long gone by and nearly forgotten.
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