Keywords: canoe trip
Item 10165
Camp Runoia campers and staff launching boat on lake, 1910
Contributed by: Camp Runoia Date: 1910 Location: North Belgrade; Belgrade Lakes Media: Photographic print
Item 149958
Two men paddling a canoe through rough water, ca. 1900
Courtesy of John Howard, an individual partner Date: circa 1900 Media: Film negative
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.
Exhibit
After the canoe, steamboats became the favored method of transportation on Moosehead Lake. They revolutionized movement of logs and helped promote tourism in the region.
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Arriving in Bar Harbor
"Others rode the same trains, steamboats, and stagecoaches as everyone else, placing their belongings—including canoes—in the cargo holds."
Site Page
Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center
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Story
The Year We Had Two Thanksgiving Days
by John Brooks Howard
The story is about a 1939 trip to Grand Lake Stream and Thanksgiving with Geo W MacArthur and family
Story
Langdon Burton and the Cold, Wet Tourists
by Phil Tedrick
A father and son have their vacation experience totally changed by an encounter with a fisherman
