Category: Recreation & Leisure, Camps, Resorts & Vacation Homes, Organized camps
Item 7399
Contributed by: Camp Winnebago Date: 1947 Location: Fayette Media: Photographic print
Item 7412
Train to Camp Winnebago in 1935
Contributed by: Camp Winnebago Date: circa 1935 Location: Fayette; Readfield 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
From French Canadians to Franco-Americans
French Canadians who emigrated to the Lewiston-Auburn area faced discrimination as children and adults -- such as living in "Little Canada" tenements and being ridiculed for speaking French -- but also adapted to their new lives and sustained many cultural traditions.
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