{"id":70,"date":"2008-07-25T12:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T12:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogybank.com\/?p=70"},"modified":"2024-07-31T08:16:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T12:16:23","slug":"swans-island-public-library-burns-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/swans-island-public-library-burns-to.html","title":{"rendered":"Swan’s Island Library burns to the ground"},"content":{"rendered":"
Today’s Bangor (Maine) Daily News<\/span><\/em> has the stunning news that the Swan’s Island Library in Maine has burned to the ground. <\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n

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(Photo: Donna Wiegle – Bangor Daily News 25 July 2008)<\/p>\n

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The library was hit by lighting, caught fire and burned. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Click here to read the complete story<\/span>. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The library held over 10,000 books and “artifacts from the island’s historical museum, including genealogy records and hundreds of historic photographs, all of which are destroyed.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/a>One of my neighbor’s is from Swan’s Island, Maine and I have been working with her on tracing her family history. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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We found almost 6,000 articles in GenealogyBank<\/a> about Swan’s Island – including this note from the Biloxi (MS) Daily Herald<\/a><\/em> published 17 October 1905.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Today’s Bangor (Maine) Daily News has the stunning news that the Swan’s Island Library in Maine has burned to the ground. (Photo: Donna Wiegle – Bangor Daily News 25 July 2008) The library was hit by lighting, caught fire and burned. Click here to read the complete story. The library held over 10,000 books and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[2746,3006,5,1878,1129,1658,12,2525,1661,2191,1674,1829,873,1082,1874,455,5366,1038,530,872,2598,5426],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-bangor","tag-biloxi","tag-books","tag-center","tag-family","tag-family-history-2","tag-genealogy","tag-genealogy-records","tag-genealogybank-2","tag-history","tag-id","tag-in","tag-last-july","tag-maine","tag-ms","tag-new-york","tag-news","tag-newspaper","tag-ny","tag-nypl","tag-photographs","tag-records"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99960,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/99960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}