Keywords: Summer Communities
Item 105898
Squirrel Island, Southport, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1910 Location: Southport Media: Glass Plate Negative
Item 27014
Bay View House Booklet, Islesboro, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Islesboro Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Islesboro Media: Ink on paper
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
Baseball often is called the National Pastime. For many people, baseball is encountered in the backyard and down the street, a game played by a few or the full contingent of a team.
Site Page
Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street
… Middle School student Walking Tour of Historic Summer Street No neighborhood is more reminiscent of Hampden’s 19th century past than that of Summer…
Site Page
Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts
The Dark Harbor summer residents enjoyed the pleasures of the Tarratine Club, offering golf in the 1890s, yachting in the 1920s and tennis in the…
Story
In an Old, Abandoned Island House, I Found my Mentor and my Muse
by Robin Clifford Wood
An aspiring writer finds inspiration and a mentor from the past in an old island home.
Story
Rug Hooking Project with a Story
by Marilyn Weymouth Seguin
My grandmother taught me the Maine craft of rug hooking when I was a child.
