Keywords: Camp Fire Girls
Item 68681
Soangetaha Campfire Girls, Farmington State Normal School, 1915
Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: 1915 Location: Farmington Media: Photographic print
Item 80512
Campfire Girls, Dixfield, ca. 1915
Contributed by: Dixfield Historical Society Date: circa 1915 Location: Dixfield Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
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.
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.
Site Page
Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor
"Even during that rough time she helped injured prisoners in the camp. This act of unselfishness shows how heroic she truly was."
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes
"… smell of roasted porpoise also wafted through the camp either because someone was roasting a chunk of porpoise for dinner or boiling its fine oil…"
Story
The Cup Code (working at OOB in the 1960s)
by Randy Randall
Teenagers cooking fried food in OOB and the code used identify the product and quantity.
Story
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
