Talk:Deer Isle, Maine

Who?
What relation is Joshua Gray to George Gray? Tom Harrison (talk) 14:38, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Why is George Gray listed as the original (white) settler on Deer Isle when, by almost all written accounts (including Dr. Noyes geneology files and MacLean's "Islands in Penobscot Bay"), William Eaton and his wife Meribah Ruth (Wardwell) Eaton were the first to settle on the island? Though Gray did help to populate the mainland (Sedgwick) side, he is not listed as one of the original dozen settlers (on Deer Isle) in 1762?

Geographic links
The important towns, rivers, and locations should probably be linked, since it is a geographic article. I don't know the area, so I'm reluctant to do that myself. Tom Harrison (talk) 19:08, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

History Section
The quoted passage is troo long to be a mere quotation, it neeeds to be rewritten and quoted in part or it is long enough to be plagarism.

Aside from the other person's observation about plagiarism, this quotation is quite distracting. It needs to be shortened, and harmonized with the text. Theriddles 00:59, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Deer Isle in the Ken Burns film "The Civil War"
Deer Isle is mentioned in one of the first, and the last Episode. I don't have time to write it up, but it is about a large group of people from there volunteering together, and also more or less abandoning the place after the war. Maybe someone can look it up sometime. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.179.108.82 (talk) 15:50, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Deer Isle Bridge
I have removed,


 * "This bridge is a sister bridge to the first Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which collapsed spectacularly in 1940, due to wind vibrations. The Eggemoggin Reach bridge still stands today. Presumably the dimensions of the bridge and the geography of the Reach do not create the same aerodynamic conditions that occurred in the Tacoma Narrows. The bridge does bounce up and down on windy days, however."

The first sentence is not true. The Deer Isle Bridge and the 1940 Tacoma Narrows bridge were not sisters in any meaningful way -- they had different designers and the Deer Isle is only 35% of the length of the Tacoma. While it is true that they both suffered from wind instabilities, this was not unusual at the time as the necessary stiffness was not well understood.

The second sentence is obvious. The third is misleading -- considerable remediation took place in the early forties to ameliorate the stability problem. The fourth may be true, but is not notable -- all suspension bridges move around some.

The stability issue and its solution is discussed fully at Deer Isle Bridge, which is the appropriate place. Jameslwoodward (talk) 10:49, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

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