Among the scrapbooks in the Peaks Island Branch Library collection are 10 volumes of Peaks Island topics assembled by Hilda Shute.
Hilda Unstead Shute and her husband Albert were born, raised and married in England and emigrated to New Brunswick, Canada in 1919. They entered the USA in 1921, arriving in Portland via the Grand Trunk Railroad from Montreal. They lived, worked, and raised a son in Portland, and she lived for some time in Peaks Island. She died in1972 and is buried with her husband in Pond Grove Cemetery, Peaks Island, where their epitaph reads: "There is a corner of a foreign field that is forever England”
Note: To see Hilda Shute's original scrapbooks, please visit the Fifth Maine Regiment Museum, on Peaks Island.
Note: To see Hilda Shute's original scrapbooks, please visit the Fifth Maine Regiment Museum, on Peaks Island.
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Peaks Island Scrapbook : 1954 - 1970, part 7 (1964 - 1969)
Portland Public Library : Peaks Island Branch
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Peaks Island- related Newspaper Clippings : 1980 - 1991, part 1
Portland Public Library : Peaks Island Branch
Newsclippings from 13 May 1980 - 4 Dec 1989.
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Peaks Island- related Newspaper Clippings : 1980 - 1991, part 2
Portland Public Library : Peaks Island Branch
Newspaper clippings from 11 Aug 1989 - 27 Mar 1990.
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Peaks Island- related Newspaper Clippings : 1980 - 1991, part 3
Portland Public Library : Peaks Island Branch
Newsclippings from 1 Apr 1990 - 6 Aug 1991
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Peaks Island- related Newspaper Clippings : 1980 - 1991, part 4
Portland Public Library : Peaks Island Branch
Newsclippings from 25 Oct 1991 - 27 Jan 1992.
