Loraine Sumner combined sports and motherhood as closely and frequently as she could manage. Often she took summer jobs as a camp counselor or director, because those positions enabled mother and daughter to spend summers together. Debbie especially enjoyed Tower Day Camp, which offered horseback riding, but Sumner worked in a variety of summer camps, some sleepover, some day camps. This compilation gives of taste of those wonderful summers and summer camp culture during the period.
“Camps”
"Camps"
Video:
Identifier:
LS-007
Collection:
Loraine Sumner Collection
Date:
1956-1974
Original Format:
8mm, Super 8
Color:
Mix
Duration:
15:33
Abstract:
"Camps" features footage Sumner shot at summer camps where she worked a counselor or camp director, in part so that her daughter could go to camp and they could spend summers together. The footage includes Maine's Camp Hitinowa (c. 1956); South End Union Camp, c. 1957; Tower Day Camp, Sterling, MA (early 1960s); Nashua Fresh Air Camp; and Camp Fire Girls Camp, Maine Camp Hitinowa footage is characterized by the Maine locale & activities like canoeing. It was on the Belgrade Lakes, Cobbossee Colony. South and North End Union Camps, as well as some Camp Fire Girl footage. This footage came primarily from archival Reels 1 & 2, which are also streaming. It was compiled by Sylvia Herbold for LHMP, based on talks with the filmmaker.
Subject(s):
Lesbian mothers, Lesbian Nuns
Place(s):
Camp Hitinowa, Belgrade Lakes, Maine; Tower Day Camp, Sterling, MA; South End Union Camp; North End Union Camp, Peterborough, New Hampshire; Ames Norwell State Park, Abington, Massachusetts; Nashua Fresh Air Camp, Peterborough, New Hampshire (same as north end union?) ; Brockton YWCA Camp, Brockton, Massachusetts
Rights:
Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP) holds all rights. Donor must approve all uses.
Source:
https://www.lesbianhomemovieproject.org/item/camps/