CUSHING Historian Mac Smith’s latest book, Disaster at the Bar Harbor Ferry , tells the tragic story of what the 1899 Bangor Daily Commercial called, “the most dreadful accident that has ever occurred within the boundaries of.
For decades, theories continued to swirl about Ware’s life and what led to her grisly end. Meanwhile, her skull and jawbone and odds and ends recovered at the time of her death remained in the courthouse’s evidence vault.