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Item 18114
Title: Camp Winnebago recording of Victory Song and To Win
Contributed by: Camp Winnebago
Date: 1964
Location: Fayette
Media: sound disc
Item 34132
Title: Civil War sheet music, ca. 1862
Contributed by: Fifth Maine Regiment Museum
Date: 1862
Location: Albion
Media: Ink on paper
Item 34133
Title: Civil War sheet music, ca. 1861
Contributed by: Fifth Maine Regiment Museum
Date: 1861
Location: Portland; Albion
Media: Ink on paper
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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.)