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| Girls at camp Wyonegonic stand among their surrounding tents. They are dressed in old-fashioned uniforms. |
This girl's camp, which had the picturesque name of Wyonegonic Camp, was located on the borders of Moose Lake, in Denmark Maine. It was started in 1902 and it grew to such proportions that it had four separate camps, that could be accessed by roads or by boat. Motor-boat piles between the camps made it possible for delivering supplies and visitors to be received there twice a day, once in the morning and once in the afternoon. Each camp was under personal supervision of a competent assistant superintendent and his wife. And in each camp there was also a counselor, a physician and a trained nurse, although the later two were rarely needed.
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| Each hiker carried a bedroll over her shoulder into the mountains. |
This former camp was an ideal situation for outdoor activity. It lay on the shores of a lake where visitors could bath and canoe at any time. The mountains close by offered opportunity for hiking and climbing. Under the supervision of an expert guide, the girls often took their backpacks on hikes for two or three days in the nearby mountain terrain.
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| These campers learned how to weave baskets. |
Arts and crafts were taught by camp instructors. Field sports were participated in and popular folk-dancing was also taught. Physical training, while not required, was enjoyed by most of the young campers. Horseback riding was also featured. There were stables and ten horse kept by camp handlers for those who attended these retreats.
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| Campers eat under the trees. |
All of the tents at this old camp were laid out in streets under the shadows of tall trees, in close proximity to the water. Most of the meals were served outdoors on a canvas-covered platform. All of the vegetables, cream, milk, butter, eggs and poultry that were prepared there for campers cam from the camp's farm.
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| Canoeists waiting to start their journey. |
Water sports were among the favorite pastimes of the campers and each of the four camps boasted of adequate numbers of boats and canoes. Canoe trips, sometimes lasted two to three days and were frequently taken. The canoeists camped in the woods at night and prepared their meals over a rustic camp fire.
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| Girls gathering on horseback preparing to take a day trip. |
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