Maine Memory Network

Counselors and campers around campfire, ca. 1950

Contributed by: Camp Winnebago Date: circa 1950 Location: Fayette Media: Photographic print

Campfire girls, Farmington Normal School, 1923

Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: 1923 Location: Farmington Media: Photographic print

Songs of Winnebago

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.

Umbazooksus & Beyond

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.

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Grand Army of the Republic

"The most popular event in the G.A.R. was the “Campfire.” This was when a group of veterans sat around a table or out in the hall and sang old war…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid

"… the next two nights out in the open around a campfire. They spent the third night on cots made from bows under a low shelter of trees before they…"

making light
by David Johansen

My relationship with Maine and how and why I make neon lights here.

Learning to fly and instructing cadets at West Point during WWII
by Vera Cleaves

West Point during World War II