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Item 42016
Title: 'Stein Song,' 1930
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1930
Location: Westbrook
Media: Ink on paper
Item 11623
Title: 'The Song of Hiawatha' illustration, ca. 1880
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1880
Media: Ink on paper
Item 7033
Title: Kotzschmar Club program back, 1950
Contributed by: Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ
Date: 1950-01-27
Location: Portland
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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.
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Throughout New England, barns attached to houses are fairly common. Why were the buildings connected? What did farmers or families gain by doing this? The phenomenon was captured in the words of a children's song, "Big house, little house, back house, barn," (Thomas C. Hubka Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn, the Connected Farm Buildings of New England, University Press of New England, 1984.)