The Great Fire of 1947: And the End of Bar Harbor's Golden Era - Paperback

by Mac Smith (Author)

The Great Fire of 1947 and the End of Bar Harbor's Golden Era tells the riveting story of the desperate evacuation of residents through the heart of an uncontrolled forest fire burning all across Mount Desert Island.

Author Biography

A Navy veteran of the first Gulf War and former reporter for The Bar Harbor Times, Mac Smith lives in Stockton Springs, Maine, in the village of Sandy Point. He is the author of several books of Maine history, including Mainers on the Titanic, Peyton Place Comes Home to Maine, Siege at the Statehouse, Disaster at the Bar Harbor Ferry, and Plain Madeleine.