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Displays
at the Grand Manan Museum
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The largest collection in the museum
is the Allan Moses Bird Collection. It encompasses 18 cases
containing 300+ different species of birds, many of which
can be seen on the Island. Allan Moses of Grand Manan was
one of the most prolific taxidermists of his day. In 1953,
he bequeathed his collection to the children of Grand Manan.
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While
on an African expedition with Mr. J. Sterling Rockefeller, Mr.
Moses described the problems
for birds in the Grand Manan Archipelago. This resulted in Mr. Rockefeller
purchasing Kent island in 1930, and making it a Bird Sanctuary.
In 1935, Mr. Rockefeller turned over Kent Island to Bowdoin
College of Brunswick, Maine for use as a Scientific Station.
Mr. Moses has been credited for the amazing comeback of the
Eider Ducks and their breeding ground on Kent Island.
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Walter B. McLaughlin Marine Gallery
The gallery includes the history of ship building, lighthouse
keepers, the history of the first settlers on the Island.
Commercial fishing from Seining, Weir fishing and Lobster
fishing are all explained with informational displays. The
gallery has items from the many vessels that have been lost
at the sea. This gallery also holds a spectacular Fresnell
Lighthouse lens, and the story of a Grand Mananer who because
of his ingenuity helped to win WWII.
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The
coastline on the west side of the island is relatively
straight, with several high headlands that advance into the
sea. This side is covered by thick Mesozoic lava
flows around 201 million years old, and it is mostly uninhabited, with a bold
front of overhanging cliffs and lofty precipices of
majestic grandeur and beauty.
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The eastern side of the island is low, and quite level. A
variety of schistose metamorphic rock formations
underlie the east side of the the Island. These range in age
between 618 and 535 million years. A major basin border fault
is well exposed at Red Point, which separates the eastern and
western packages of rocks.
Interesting minerals, mainly from the lava flows, are on
display. Photos that illustrate island geology fill one wall.
The geology exhibit is being updated in 2010, so be sure to
visit it again.
For more about our island geology, see this
Grand Manan Geology web page. |
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Willa Cather
The Willa Cather exhibit is on display in the main foyer.
She was an American Pulitzer prize winner in 1923 for
her novel, "One of Ours". In the mid 1920's - 1940 she
was a regular summer resident. Her cottage has been restored
and can be seen from a walking trail. Her
wash basin stand, made from the freight shipping boxes
her furniture was shipped in, is one of the items on display.
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L.Keith Ingersoll Wing
L. Keith Ingersoll (1914-1993) was an original member
of the Board of Directors for the Museum, historian, news
correspondent, co-director for the planning of the New Brunswick
Bicentennial, fisherman, Member of the Order of Canada and
a friend of many.
This wing acts as a gallery for artists to display their
work along with other exhibits. This year, Lori P. Morse, a staff
member who is a recent graduate of the New Brunswick College of
Craft and Design, has a series of montage photographs on display.
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