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Title: Counselors and campers around campfire

Contributed by: Camp Winnebago

Location: Fayette

Media: Photograph

Title: Campers at Tim Pond, ca. 1906

Contributed by: Stanley Museum

Date: circa 1906

Location: Eustis

Media: Black & White Photograph

Title: Camp Runoia campers in costume in 1910

Contributed by: Camp Runoia

Date: 1910

Location: Belgrade

Media: Photograph

Summer Camps

Maine is home to dozens of summer-long youth camps and untold numbers of day camps that take advantage of water, woods, and fresh air. While the children, counselors, and other staff come to Maine in the summer, the camps live on throughout the year and throughout the lives of many of the campers.

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.