Message to the future in Acadia time capsule, for year 2116

The official Acadia Centennial logo

If you celebrated the Acadia Centennial, you won’t be there for the opening of the Acadia Bicentennial Time Capsule in the year 2116. But you can hand down the generations the story of how you marked the 100th, and how there may be evidence of it in a special steel box in the Bar Harbor Bank & Trust lobby.

If you participated in an Acadia Centennial event, like Take Pride in Acadia Day, Park Science Day, or the Acadia Centennial Trek, your descendants may find a digital photo from the event, with you in it, in that specially manufactured Acadia time capsule.

Digital photo of Acadia Centennial Trek participants James Linnane, Shelley Dawson, Maureen Fournier, Acadia on My Mind and Kristy Sharp on the sand bar to Bar Island, is included in the Acadia time capsule. (Photo courtesy of Kristy Sharp)

(Go to bottom of story to see a complete list of items by name in the Acadia Bicentennial Time Capsule.)

Or if you bought an official Centennial product, like the 2016 Acadia calendar by Bob Thayer, the Anatomy of a Bates Cairn T-shirt by Moira O’Neill and Judy Hazen Connery, or the Acadia Centennial Trek Medal, your descendants may find that very same item in the time capsule.

Watch the Facebook livestream of the installation of the time capsule today, Feb. 3, beginning at 1:30 p.m., featuring remarks by Bar Harbor Bankshares president and CEO Curtis C. Simard; Acadia superintendent Kevin Schneider; Friends of Acadia president David MacDonald; Acadia Bicentennial Time Capsule Working Group co-chair Charles Stanhope; and Acadia Centennial Task Force co-chair Jack Russell. The video of the half-hour event can be viewed after the fact as well at the Acadia National Park Centennial 2016 Facebook page.

While we won’t be there to bear witness at the installation of the Acadia time capsule today, or at its unsealing in 2116, we’re proud – and tickled pink – to have a digital copy of the 3rd edition of our “Hiking Acadia National Park” book, along with digital photos of the Acadia Centennial Trek, included in that stainless steel box.

A digital photo of the Acadia Centennial Trek Medal, still available for sale to help raise funds for the park, is included in the Acadia time capsule.

We plan to bring family members and friends to visit the Acadia time capsule in the bank lobby, bearing a copy of our hiking book and wearing an Acadia Centennial Trek Medal, to take a photo for posterity, perhaps once a year, for as long as possible. And may that be a message to the future, about how our generation appreciated Acadia, and about how we hope the park is as loved 100 years from now.

To see whether any of the Centennial events you attended or products you purchased are included in the Acadia time capsule, check out the list of items by name, based on information provided by the Acadia Centennial Task Force:

Acadia time capsule features digital photos, products, documents

100 Words for Acadia Writing Contest Youth Winners Announcement – digital item
2016 Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce Visitors’ Guide – physical item
4^th of July Parade Themed to the Acadia Centennial – digital and physical item
“A Night with Dayton Duncan”– physical and digital item
“A Thinking Person’s Guide to National Parks” – digital item
AAA Northern New England “Journey” magazine – physical item
Abbe Museum People of the First Light exhibit – digital item
Acadia Author’s Night – digital and physical item
The specially manufactured Acadia Bicentennial Time Capsule can be visited any time over the next 100 years at the Bar Harbor Bank & Trust lobby on Main Street. (Photo courtesy of Friends of Acadia, Julia Walker Thomas)
Acadia Bicentennial Time Capsule – digital and physical item
Acadia Centennial Ball Cap – physical item
Acadia Centennial Canvas Beverage Canteen – physical item
Acadia Centennial Carriage Drive – digital and physical item
Acadia Centennial Coaster – physical item
Acadia Centennial Collection, Acadia Through a Furniture Maker’s Eyes – digital item
Acadia Centennial Flag – physical item
Acadia Centennial Fundraising and Budgeting – digital item
Acadia Centennial Lectures – digital and physical item
Acadia Centennial Marketing – digital and physical item
Acadia Centennial Mug – physical item
Acadia Centennial Partner and Product Recognition Tools – physical item
Acadia Centennial Partners Meetings and Events – digital and physical item
Acadia Centennial Signature Sponsor Information – physical item
Acadia Centennial Task Force co-chairs Jack Russell and Cookie Horner declare the Acadia Centennial celebration over with a ceremonial gavel thump of an Acadia hiking stick, and a high five. (Photo courtesy of Friends of Acadia, Julia Walker Thomas)
Acadia Centennial Signature Sponsors – digital item
Acadia Centennial Stemless Wine Glass – physical item
Acadia Centennial Task Force – digital and physical item
Acadia Centennial Trek Meet-up – digital item
Acadia Centennial Website – digital and physical item
Acadia Centennial Wine Glass – physical item
Acadia Choral Society Spring Concert Program – physical item
Acadia Day at Fenway – digital and physical item
Acadia National Park from Space Poster – physical item
Acadia National Park Materials from Lynne Dominy – digital and physical item
“Acadia National Park: A Centennial Celebration” – digital and physical item (NOTE: See sidebar about Amazon.com links)
Published in partnership with Friends of Acadia, the book features the photographs of Tom Blagden, Jr., and essays by Dayton Duncan, former Acadia superintendent Sheridan Steele, FOA president and CEO David MacDonald, and others. (Photo courtesy of Friends of Acadia)
Acadia Night Sky Festival – digital item
Acadia on My Mind: “Hiking Acadia National Park” – digital item
Acadia Science Symposium Keynote Address – digital item
Acadia Sings! Spring Concert 2016 – digital item
Acadia Task Force Portrait – digital item
Acadia the Beautiful: A Concert of American Music Program – physical item
Acadia Visitor Center Materials – physical items, including Island Explorer bus map, 2016 Passport Stamp Series, an Acadia National Park sticker and a Centennial collectible coin
“Acadia Waltz” performed by the Kelley Farm Five – digital item
Advance Journal and Calendar for Maine Senate, day of Acadia Centennial resolution – physical item
Ambrosia Cooking School Display – digital item
“An Acadian Portrait” Narrator’s Text – physical item
The Anatomy of a Bates cairn T-shirt, by Moira O’Neill and Ranger Judy Hazen Connery, points out the purpose of each stone and includes the Acadia Centennial logo on the sleeve.
Anatomy of a Bates Cairn T-shirt – physical item
ANP Staff, Bangor Classroom Every Kid in a Park Visit – digital item
Art Meets Science Exhibit Opening – digital item
“Art of Acadia” – digital and physical item
Art on West, Let Them Eat Cake – digital item
Art Walk – digital item
Artemis Gallery’s Centennial Events Postcard and Show – digital and physical item
“A Hundred Years of Solitude,” article from The Daily Telegraph – physical item
Arts Community Working Group – digital and physical item
Atlantic Brewing Event Celebrating “59 in 59” – digital item
August Art Exhibits – digital item
Auto Wars at the Seal Cove Auto Museum – digital item
Bagaduce Chorale’s concert “Eternal Sky Centenial Ride” Program – physical item
Bar Harbor Brass Week Concert – digital and physical item
Bar Harbor Chamber Award – digital item
Bar Harbor Chamber Materials – digital item
Bar Harbor Fine Arts Festival – digital item
Bar Harbor Historical Society Board of Directors Letter to the Future – physical item
Bar Harbor Music Festival Blackwoods Performance – digital item
Bar Harbor Savings & Loan Art- digital item
Bar Harbor Times “Acadia National Park Celebrates 75 Years” Supplement – physical item
Bar Harbor Town Band – digital item
Bean Supper – digital item
Beatrix Farrand Society Talk – digital item
Before Acadia Adventure and Discovery – digital item
This 2016 Acadia Centennial calendar is by ranger naturalist Bob Thayer. (Image courtesy of Bob Thayer)
“Beyond Bar Harbor” – physical item
Bob Thayer 2016 Acadia National Park Calendar – physical item
Camp Beech Cliff Ice Cream Party – digital item
Camp Beech Cliff Welcome Reception – digital item
Cape Air “Bird’s Eye View” Spring 2016 Magazine – physical item
Car Free Acadia Day – digital item
Carolyn Bouton “Acadia Celebrating a Century” poster – physical item
Catherine Breer 2016 Commemorative Desk Calendar and Calendar Signing – physical and digital item
Catherine Schmitt, Champlain Society Talk and “Historic Acadia National Park”– digital and physical item (NOTE: See sidebar about Amazon.com links)
Centennial Delegation Brunch at the Eacho House – digital item
Centennial Edition of Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce’s Discover Mount Desert Island Guide – physical item
Centennial of First Acadia Celebration – digital item
Centennial Photos of Cookie Horner and Jack Russell – digital item
Centennial Slideshow – digital item
“Chebacco,” the Magazine of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society, Volume XVII 2016 – physical item
Civilian Conservation Corps Contribution to Acadia Lecture – digital and physical item
Coastal Conversations in Acadia – digital item
Collen Miniuk-Sperry’s 2016 A Year in Acadia Calendar – physical item
Ronald H. Epp’s biography of George Dorr is published by the Friends of Acadia. (Image courtesy of Friends of Acadia)
College of the Atlantic Magazine Fall 2016 – digital item
College of the Atlantic Tom Blagden’s exhibit “Glaciers to Granite” – digital and physical item
Commemoration of 1947 Fire and Resilience – digital and physical item
Craig Courtney original music “I Am Bound for the Promised Land” – physical item
“Creating Acadia National Park” – digital and physical item related to Ronald H. Epp biography of George B. Dorr, and Jim Peverini impersonating Dorr
Cultural Connections in the Park – digital item
Cultural Landscape Inventory and Assessment for Oldfarm – physical item
“Dancing at the Mill” – digital item
Darron Collins Acadia and National Parks Project – digital
Designing Acadia Exhibit at Maine Historical Society – physical item
Dorr Museum Centennial Exhibit – digital item
Down East Magazine’s Acadia Special Collector’s Edition – physical item
Earl Brechlin Talk, Bar Harbor Postcards – digital item
Early Cultivation of Acadia Centennial Partners – digital and physical item
Early Development of Acadia Centennial Concept and Plan – digital and physical item
Earth Day Roadside Cleanup – digital item
Eeek of Ecology – digital item
Ellsworth Business Expo – digital item
Ellsowrth Chamber of Commerce March 2016 Newsletter – physical item
Ellsworth Product Display – digital item
Eric Fitzpatrick Art on West – digital item
Facebook Live Stream Videos – digital item
Flags and Stickers in Town – digital item
Flags Island Artisans – digital item
Flamingo Festival 2016 Jonathan Gormley Photos – digital item
A PDF of the Fall/Winter 2016 issue of the Friends of Acadia Journal is included in the Acadia time capsule. (Image courtesy of Friends of Acadia)
Flower Show – digital item
Friends of Acadia Annual Meeting – digital and physical item
Friends of Acadia Benefit Gala – digital item
Friends of Acadia Journals – digital and physical item
Friends of Acadia Second Century Campaign – physical item
Gallery at Somes Sound Centennial Collection Booklet – digital item
Garden Community Working Group – digital and physical item
George Sanker Photograph of North American River Otter – digital and physical item
Gifford’s Acadia Birthday Party Ellsworth – digital item
Gift of Acadia Event Materials – digital and physical item
Gouldsboro Historical Society – digital item
Governor’s Proclamation Honoring Acadia National Park’s 100^th Birthday – physical item
Great Harbor Maritime Museum – digital item
Great Maine Outdoor Weekend Poster – digital item
Green & Healthy Maine Visitor’s Guide, Summer-Fall 2016 – physical item
Guide to the Acadia Centennial Collection at Gallery at Somes Sound – physical item
Guide to the Bicentennial Time Capsule – digital and physical item
Haborside Giant Cake – digital item
Hawaii Volcanoes Sister Park – digital and physical item
History of Volunteer Work, Mike Hays – digital and physical item
Hokulea Centennial, Jon Williams – digital item
Information about the Jackson Laboratory’s 2016 Edward H. Birkenmeier Lecture – physical item
“Images of Acadia, Hancock County Hookers Celebrating 100 Years of Acadia National Park” – physical item
Island Artisans – digital item
Island Quilters – digital and physical item
Jack Russell Acadia Centennial Task Force Files – digital item
Jack Russell: A New Deal for Acadia CCC Talk – digital item
Jeff Dobbs Videos – digital item
John Holyoke’s Bangor Daily News piece, “Acadia Memories on an Important Day” – physical item
July Art Exhibits – digital item
An actual Junior Ranger Hat, like the one featured in this National Park Service photo, is included in the Acadia time capsule. (NPS photo)
Junior Ranger Day Acadia National Park – digital item
Junior Ranger Hat – physical item
Kaitlyn Metcalf, Century One Acadia 100 Paintings – digital item
Ken Olson’s Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument Presentation – digital item
Kevin Gardner Discovering New England Stone Walls – digital item
Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival – digital item
Liddy Hubbell 2016 Calendar – physical item
Louise Bourn at Cynthia Winings Gallery – digital item
Louise Phillips Ribbon Cutting at Schoodic – digital item
Maine Dog Magazine Fall 2016 – digital item
Maine Legislative Joint Resolution Commemorating Acadia National Park Centennial – digital and physical item
Maine Public Broadcasting Network, “Maine Calling” – digital item
Maine Sea Coast Mission Tours – digital item
Maine Windjammers Parade, Somes Sound – digital item
Mary Vekasi Quilted Wall Hanging – physical item
MDI Directions Fine Craft Show – digital item
MDI Students Celebrate the Centennial – digital and physical item
MDI Biological Laboratory Art Meets Science – digital item
Mount Desert Elementary School Chorus at Junior Ranger Day – digital item
Among the National Park Service Centennial items is a physical copy of the Every Kid in a Park brochure. (US Department of the Interior image)
Mount Desert Islander Coverage – digital and physical item
Mount Desert Summer Chorale Concert, “In Nature’s Realm: An Acadia Centennial Concert” – digital and physical item
National Park Service Centennial Materials and Katahdin Woods and Waters Information – physical item
National Trails Day – digital item
National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Preservation Magazine, Summer 2016 – physical item
NPS Centennial Links – digital and physical item
Open Lighthouse Day Poster – physical item
Park Centennial Best Practices Working Group – digital and physical item
Park Science Day – digital and physical item
PechaKucha MDI Show on Acadia and Centennial – digital and physical item
Pierre Monteux School Acadia Fanfare Concert – digital item
Portland Magazine, “Ready, Set, Summer” Issue – physical item
Portland Press Herald Newspaper Supplement on Acadia Centennial Celebration – physical item
Products Working Group – digital and physical item
Quality Acadia Experience During Centennial Visitation Surge – digital and physical item
Rebecca Edmondson original music pieces for The Eastern Maine Pops Orchestra – digital and physical item
Red Cloak Haunted History Tours – digital item
Robert Hagberg Becoming an Artist – digital item
“Sadie’s Winter Dream, Fishermen’s Wives & Maine Sea Coast Mission Hooked Rugs, 1923-1938” – physical item
Schoodic Ferry Ride – digital item
Science Community Working Group – digital and physical item
“Small as an Elephant” – physical item (NOTE: See sidebar about Amazon.com links)
Southwest Harbor Public Library Art in Public Spaces Exhibit – digital item
“Spoonhandle” – digital and physical item (NOTE: See sidebar about Amazon.com links)
Star-making Kit and Instructions – physical item
Statewide Working Group – digital and physical item
Story Litchfield Pictures – digital item
Summer Festival of the Arts Catalogue and Camp Guide – physical item
Sunrise at Otter Cliffs, January 1, 2016 – digital item
Take Pride in Acadia Day – digital item
Talk of the Towns, “Creating Acadia National Park” – digital item
TEDxDirigo Reception at College of the Atlantic – digital item
TEMPO Fall Concert Program, “Music of Acadia” – physical item
The Bar Harbor Music Festival, Brass Venture Eric Ewazen – digital item
“The End of Night” – physical item (NOTE: See sidebar about Amazon.com links)
“The Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations: An Historical Sketch, 2^nd edition, Woodlawn Museum Ellsworth” – digital item
The Nature of Halloween at College of the Atlantic – digital item
“The Picture Book of the Acadia Centennial” – physical item
“The Wild Gardens of Acadia” – digital and physical item (NOTE: See sidebar about Amazon.com links)
“Trails of History” – digital item
“Trail Workers” to College of the Atlantic – digital and physical item
“Transformer Tales: Stories of the Dawnland” – digital item
USA Today Special Edition Coverage of Acadia Centennial– physical item
Wednesday Painters – digital item
Wendell Gilley Museum Friends in Acadia Exhibit – digital item
Wooden Centennial Ornament – physical item
Writings by Kristi Rugg – physical item
Youth and the Acadia Centennial – digital and physical item
Youth Intern Gathering 2014 – digital item