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1543Bangor Daily News article, Oct. 31, 1984.
  • Newspaper Clipping
  • Carvings
  • People
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Article from the Bangor Daily News reporting on a donation of Wendell Gilley bird carvings by artist Ethel Mae James to the museum
1575Bar Harbor Times article, April 8, 1971
  • Newspaper Clipping
  • People
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This article, titled "Capt. Black: Artist and Surgeon", describes Wendell Gilley's influence on sculptor Paul Black. It also mentions Gilley's Canada goose carved for Harry S. Truman.
1574Bar Harbor Times article, July 3, 1980.
  • Newspaper Clipping
  • Events
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
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Describes the removal of the George Ripley Fuller House, located at the current Wendell Gilley Museum site (the corner of Rte. 102 and Herrick Rd., Southwest Harbor) prior to the museum's construction.
1581Bar Harbor Times article, November 20, 1969
  • Newspaper Clipping
  • People
  • Events, Exhibitions
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Announcement that Wendell Gilley would be attending a bird carving exhibition in Chestertown, Maryland. The carving of a bald eagle family that he entered in the exhibit is depicted.
1579Bar Harbor Times article, October 21, 1976
  • Newspaper Clipping
  • People
  • Events, Exhibitions
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Wendell Gilley exhibits forty carvings plus carvings-in-progress at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences in the show "Down East Bird Carvings."
1577Cleveland Plain Dealer article, September 20, 1956
  • Newspaper Clipping
  • People
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Columnist Wes Lawrence, visiting Southwest Harbor, writes about Wendell Gilley. Gilley's last name is misspelled "Gillie".
1576Ellsworth American article, September 8, 1965
  • Newspaper Clipping
  • People
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Wendell Gilley meeting with National Wood Carvers Association officials Edwin Moore and Bernie Eilerman in his home in Southwests Harbor
1582Gilley Celebrates 30th Year
  • Newspaper Clipping
  • Structures, Civic, Exhibition, Museum
  • Events, Exhibitions
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Article from the Mount Desert Islander, July 14, 2011
1578Kent County News article, October 20, 1965
  • Newspaper Clipping
  • People
  • Events, Exhibitions
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Lists Wendell Gilley as one of America's top craftsmen exhibiting at the Kent County Chapter of the Maryland Ornithological Society show of waterfowl and upland game bird carvings in Nov. 1965. Other carvers exhibiting included Harold Haertel.
1242Philadelphia Inquirer article, Oct. 19, 1976
  • Newspaper Clipping
  • Events, Exhibitions
  • People
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Article from the Philadelphia Inquirer's society column by Ruth Seltzer describing the preparations for the exhibit Downeast Bird Carvings by Wendell Gilley. The exhibit was held at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. The photograph accompanying the article shows Barbara Tyson, a trustee of the Academy, helping unpack the carved birds.
1580Southwest Harbor Man Gave Up Family Business to Become "Whittling" Artist
  • Newspaper Clipping
  • People
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Bar Harbor Times article about Wendell Gilley's beginnings as an artist. Publication date is unknown.
1583Woodcarvers Slate Speaker Here Saturday
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  • People
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Article from the Evening Telegram (Herkimer, N.Y.), May 17, 1967. Wendell Gilley was the featured speaker at the National Woodcarvers Association's New York chapter's second annual meeting, according to the article, which gives biographical and professional information about him.