Keywords: canoe trip
Item 10165
Camp Runoia campers and staff launching boat on lake, 1910
Contributed by: Camp Runoia Date: 1910 Location: North Belgrade; Belgrade Lakes Media: Photographic print
Item 17603
Carrying canoe, Ragged Lake, 1894
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1894-08-27 Media: Photographic print
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.
Exhibit
After the canoe, steamboats became the favored method of transportation on Moosehead Lake. They revolutionized movement of logs and helped promote tourism in the region.
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Arriving in Bar Harbor
"Others rode the same trains, steamboats, and stagecoaches as everyone else, placing their belongings—including canoes—in the cargo holds."
Site Page
Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center
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Story
Langdon Burton and the Cold, Wet Tourists
by Phil Tedrick
A father and son have their vacation experience totally changed by an encounter with a fisherman
Story
Wampum Belts
by Donald Soctomah
My great grandfather was a wampum keeper
