New Song To Day, Evocative Old Hand-painted Sign Found in Bar Harbor's Old Star Theatre cartoon characters with a varnish finish giving

with a varnish finish giving it a bit of sheen

just some minor hairline cracks in the wood due to age

and am super charmed by these little miniature pencil drawings of three different estates done by a E

What especially drew me to this one (in addition to the imagery itself--poor

making "2nd Assistant Lady Chief" feel like the world's highest honor

New Song To Day, Evocative Old Hand-painted Sign Found in Bar Harbor's Old Star Theatre cartoon characters with a varnish finish givingThere is a handwritten note on the back of this sign documenting its having been found (in 1988) inside the Old "Star Theatre" in Bar Harbor, Maine. I've included a photo of the theatre, which was built in 1908 as a cinema and entertainment center, equipped with 400 moveable chairs, a fine dancing floor, and "unquestionably the finest theater organ in Maine" according to the The Bar Harbor Times in 1924. Fun article about the Star on the site of the