Keywords: Campfires
Item 7422
Counselors and campers around campfire, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Camp Winnebago Date: circa 1950 Location: Fayette Media: Photographic print
Item 111572
Boy Scout campfire at Demonstration Day, Portland, 1921
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1921-04-22 Location: Portland Media: glass negative
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
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…"
Site Page
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…"
Story
making light
by David Johansen
My relationship with Maine and how and why I make neon lights here.
Story
Learning to fly and instructing cadets at West Point during WWII
by Vera Cleaves
West Point during World War II
