Maine Memory Network

Counselors and campers around campfire, ca. 1950

Contributed by: Camp Winnebago Date: circa 1950 Location: Fayette Media: Photographic print

Camp Winnebago recording of Winnebago Glorious, 1964

Contributed by: Camp Winnebago Date: 1964 Location: Fayette Media: Phonograph record, Long-playing recod (33 rpm)

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.

Begin Again: reckoning with intolerance in Maine

BEGIN AGAIN explores Maine's historic role, going back 528 years, in crisis that brought about the pandemic, social and economic inequities, and the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020.

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Grand Army of the Republic

"The most popular event in the G.A.R. was the “Campfire.” This was when a group of veterans sat around a table or out in the hall and sang old war…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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