The Ellsworth American FEATURE Thursday July 1. 1971 Page 17 Sam's store that he established after his spretacular trip to Oporta, Spain, is to the left of the Spurling dock shown above. The old Benjamin Spurling house on Big Cranberry. Sparling was a boat build- er. fisherman and community leader Led in which the Yankees success- fully held off a party of British intent on barning some boats Sparling had concealed Norwood Cove on Mount Desert Island in 1814 Cranberry Tales were interested in exotic con- varied mood and na M versation pieces. He began col- have Been nurtured lecting seals and stuffing them by the brisk tire the Cran- Memories of a brave man In the barn behind the house He is said to have had a real berry Itles from the late 18th knack for making Laem lifelike, centary A few of them moved and they were good specimens careers distant parts and his beautiful wife. But the local supply was inade- Some to faraway placete quate to the sweep of Sam's as- and returned these bite o piration. He began to speak of wooded rack off the shore Mount Desert Others salied By LaRue Spiker a trip to the arctic to collect more and better specimens away and never returned The Hannah Caroline objected bit varied in spirit and personality but for the most terly and came to hate even the seals stored in the barn At common thread interwove first Sam's friends and neigh- their - bewitchem bors took a dim view of the with an island and un- destanding of the sea's real project too. but his vaunting enthuslasm finally won over meaning some of the younger men He In penef they weld into a persuaded his father to let him herbic figure their distinctive have the Schr Minerva for a features lost is the totality of trip to the arctic She was a classic image And this is per- two-master about 60 feet long hape #4 It should be for the with square stern. no gallet. first ones were (unner's in les and no figure head erá that 16 past But there Leaving Hannah Caroline with their two children: ages Tand 2 of the Cranberries His the and three children he had sired The Islesford Museum was founder by Prof. William Sawlelle, a long time 1tm did not fuse with that of any by former marriage he sail- mer resident and historian of Little Cranberry Island The Meseam contains a fine other man ed off in the schooner in March collection of memorabilia of the early farmers and fishermen, of the colonial era. His name was Sam Hadlock 1829 with a crew of 17. Among and a priceless collection of books and documents New a part of the Acadia Nat- Less is known about the w/ them were William Gilley, new ional Park, it is open to the public every day during the summer men of the Cranberties than of ly married young Jospeh Stan- the men Their days laded in ley son of one the first set. to . veries of unspectacular tiers: Ellis Kingbury Joseph tasks achieved with courage Ober of Mount Desert: and 14 less facile to the chronicler's year old Samuel Taylor whose pea They too merge into sym- first sea voyage it was. The bots They are figures of streng. vessel did not return in the fall th and patience but for the most as she should have part their features fade into The months turned into years shadowy generalities There was without word of her. and the an exception among them too lamp in Mrs Stanley's window The Prussian Lady burned night after night to guide She was Sam Hadlock's wife her son home. No news was Sam was the grandson of the received of the Minerva until Hadlock who gave his name to 1833 when a Capt. Stagley Coe two ponds above Northeast Northeast Harbor returned from Harbor before he moved to Isl Arthur Spurling, age 98. is the grandsir of the Cranberry a less ill-fated trip to remote esford and the son of Samuel Islands Loved and respected by all who know him. he lives part of Greenland While there Sr. whose life conformed more closely to the general pattern alone and keeps his hand in at his old trades by repairing he had encountered a group of of the Cranberries Sam. Sr. boats and furniture in his shop. His only complaint: he admits Eskimos one of whom was carrying a gun with Sam's was a fisherman as a young to being a little stooped now. name burned OD the butt They man and accomplished his most also had handkerchief with his spectacular feat in that role and courts of the continent them He built house for his initials embroidered on it. In 1809 he landed a good haul His story told, well told bride overlooking Western Way Stanley pieced together the of fish off the Grand Banks by Rachel Field. a long time and renamed her. He called her dressed and cured them on the story. although some of the de- summer resident of Suttons Is- Hannah Caroline which he evi- tails remain a little hazy today. shores of Labrador then salled land, in small volume she dently thought would fall more The Minerva was frozen fast off for Oporto, Spain, with them called GOD'S POCKET She naturally from the tongues of in the ice-pan the first winter The seas were haunted by Bri got her information from his compatriots than any part The hunting expedition seems tish and French ships, warring number of sources but the chief of Dorethea Albertina Wilhelm- to have been successful. for they with one another but both on impetus for her interest seems ina Celeste had many fine skins Then one the lookout for American mer- to have stemmed from her Presumptious though the evening Sam went out for more chant ships. friendship with Samuel Sanford name-change seems it is per- He was caught by darkness and Hadlock managed to elude the young Sam's grandson. who haps sign of some sensitivity snow storm and did not re- The "Old Preble Place" overlooking Western Way, was originally the house Sam eagle eyes of both and success- was then an old man living on on Sam's part for the petite turn to the ship They found Hadlock built for the Prussion Lady after he brought her back from Europe as his fully disposed of his catch He Big Cranberry in corner of young German woman must him the next morning kneel must have turned pretty pea- the Hadlock home place. bride. have had enough to face among ing on the ice his gun poised ny for it. because his return He startled her once while Sam's friends and neighbors for one last shot. He was froz- cargo cost him $500 in duties she was dreaming in a wild The church on Big Cranberry. without such a tongue-twisting solid They put weights on at Marblehead When he got raspberry patch in the cove. He name She is said to have been his feet and lowered the body home. he built with part of the told her gently Don't be the prettiest woman on the is into the dark frigid water of proceeds a store on site in afraid You are as safe with lands and that would have been the arctic sea. When spring front of the present brick mus- me as if you were in God's handicap enough among half broke up the ice. the crew took eum at Islesford and became Then they spoke of Sam the population She spoke very the Minerva out. according to a successful merchant. Hadlock and he gave her Sam's little English at first, had the the Eskimos and that was the He had five sons. and you journals during her last visit fine clothes and manners of last that was ever heard of her might expect that they too two days before his own death more sophisticated culture To They cave Hannah Caroline would follow the general pat- There were up's and down's complicate matters further Sam the handkerchief along with the tern. All of them did except in Sam's fortunes on the conti- loved to show her off message and were a little start. Sam. Jr the eldest Not for nent In 1825 when his luck was She evideatly made it either led the way she received them him was life at sea with bits on one of its upward swings, out of her deep feeling (or Sam There were no tears. no out- of adventure scarcely sufficient he tell in love or from some maturing streng- ward breakdown from grief to the drudgery of endless days She was Dorethea Albertina th that flowed from necessity There was a reaction. however of passage when the very creak Wilhelmina Celeste Russ the The simple, rugged paradise to With the aid of a neighbor of the rigging assumed the daughter of a wealthy German which Sam had brought her was boy she loaded the wagon with rhythms of interminable mono- industrialist who would have not without some flaws. how several cases containing the stuf- tony The scope was too nar- naught of this unknown upstart ever He had promised that she fed seals Sam had left and row for the grand gesture. the from the new world The feel could return for a visit to her started toward the landing Nel. colorful flourish for which he ing of the young coup'e was childhood home before they had chbors stopped to watch in dis- had a consuming appetite deep and strong however, and spent too long in America: but belief When she reached the Sam was a showman from they pressed their suit against months passed and there was shore. she backed the wagon in- the depths of his soul without papa objections Finally he no evidence of fulfillment of the to position and shoved the cas- any conceivable precedent for said Naily that he wou'd give promise. Sam was still full of es off into the sea. Without stop. such passion in his background his daughter's hand only to the old embitions but had to ping to watch them bob away His bent found satisfaction in householder That simplified find a way to make them a in the tide she started back driving through Europe in things Sam went out and bought reality for the rest coach and pair Hobnobbing with a house. said to have cost in He finally decided that out- Don' do it. Hannah Caro- Kings and Queens In the dash- the neighborhood of $10 000 right sale of addities from the line soméone ing figure he cut in his maroon no small sum in that time urged. new world might be more velvet coat richly accentuated This seems to have clinched like throwing good money literative and assured means of the matter The ceremony was away, muttered another by the gold snuff box presented financing another junket through to him by the King of Saxony performed in March and Sam But the Prossian Lady had Europe as well as a means of He paid his glittering way by bore his bride away to share made a decision and she car- building fortune for the Put in his adventures His fortunes ried it through to the finish exhibiting two miserable Eski- are If people would pay to see waned after this and some Whether she did it out of an mos and their child some stuf- stuffed seals at fairs and at the aching love for months later he found it neces- Sam or from court surely there would be a fed seals, and other mementoes sary to go back to Great Cran resentment of the aims that had sale for the same commodity to from the new world in the fairs been the end of berry where he hoped to recoup him, no one museums and the wealthy who knew