Keywords: rustic camp
Item 73113
Farmington State Normal School Students at rustic camp, ca. 1925
Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: circa 1925 Media: Photographic print
Item 80456
Greetings from Camp Durrell, ca. 1908
Contributed by: Friendship Museum Date: circa 1908 Location: Cushing Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
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."
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
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …then came the settlers…
"They made beautiful baskets and did beautiful bead work.” ...next came the artists and rusticators."
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2
"… encounters with nature were tinged with rusticism, romance, and poetry, inspired by the view of the sublime in nature promoted by the landscape…"
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.
