Keywords: Camp meetings
Item 10151
Boathouse at Camp Runoia, Belgrade Lakes, 1947
Contributed by: Camp Runoia Date: 1947 Location: Belgrade Lakes Media: Photographic print
Item 7402
Camp Kennebec Invitational Tennis Meet banner, Camp Winnebago, 1930
Contributed by: Camp Winnebago Date: 1930 Location: Kents Hill Media: Silk
Exhibit
An enduring element of summer camps is the songs campers sing around the campfire, at meals, and on many other occasions. Some regale the camp experience and others spur the camp's athletes on to victory.
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
John Martin: Expert Observer - Millerite camp meeting, Orrington, 1844
"John Martin (1823-1904) learned about the meeting and went to the campground to observe. He drew the picture in 1864 and included it on page 199 of…"
Site Page
Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview
"Huge shell middens have been found along the shores where natives camped for hundreds of years. After their initial scare by Captain Church's men…"
Story
Amato's Italian Sandwiches
by Charles V. Stanhope
Amato's Italian Sandwiches
Story
The Right Place At The Right Time
by Joe & Nellie Kennedy
A musical history of Joe and Nellie Kennedy
