Maine Memory Network

Balls Camps, Grand Lake Stream, ca. 1914

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1914 Location: Grand Lake Stream Media: Photograph on postcard

Ball's Camps, Grand Lake Stream, ca. 1915

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1915 Location: Grand Lake Stream Media: Photograph on postcard

Ball property, S. Side Maple Street, Peaks Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Elizabeth W. Ball Use: Camp

Ball property, S. Side Maple Street, Peaks Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Elizabeth M. Ball Use: Summer Dwelling

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.

Summer Folk: The Postcard View

Vacationers, "rusticators," or tourists began flooding into Maine in the last quarter of the 19th century. Many arrived by train or steamer. Eventually, automobiles expanded and changed the tourist trade, and some vacationers bought their own "cottages."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"Balls and concerts were held at the old hotels. High School basketball was extremely popular, and remains so today."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Tilson's Hat

"He was killed by a cannon ball that blew off both of his legs. As he was dying, he gave his diary and hat to the soldiers to bring back home."

A Splash of Water
by Marilyn Weymouth Seguin

Reminisce of a lifetime on Little Sebago Lake

A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin

As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down