Keywords: Camp cooks
Item 10162
Camp building at Camp Runoia, Belgrade Lakes, 1910
Contributed by: Camp Runoia Date: 1910 Location: Belgrade Lakes Media: photographic print
Item 7410
Dining hall at Camp Winnebago, 1957
Contributed by: Camp Winnebago Date: 1957 Location: Fayette Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Cooks and Cookees: Lumber Camp Legends
Stories and tall tales abound concerning cooks and cookees -- important persons in any lumber camp, large or small.
Exhibit
Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 1 of 3
"New York Sportsman's Show booth, 1897 "Camp Oquossoc" displayed expert taxidermy and the latest sporting equipment from all over Maine."
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Porter Lake
"… shoreline is now heavily developed with family camps, cottages and homes. The different fish in Porter Lake are the landlocked salmon and lake…"
Story
The Cup Code (working at OOB in the 1960s)
by Randy Randall
Teenagers cooking fried food in OOB and the code used identify the product and quantity.
Story
Norcross Deer Hunting
by Albert Fowler
How hunting has impacted my life
Lesson Plan
Grade Level: 3-5
Content Area: Health Education & Physical Education, Social Studies
This lesson plan will introduce students to myriad communities in Maine, past and present, through the universal lens of sports and group activities. Students will explore and understand the history of many of Maine’s recreational pastimes, what makes Maine the ideal location for some outdoor sports, and how communities have come together through team activities throughout Maine’s history.
