Loraine Sumner

Item Data

  • Collection Title: Loraine Sumner Collection
  • Item Title: "Camps"
  • ID Number: LS-007
  • Date Range: 1956-1974
  • Description: 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.
  • Biographical/Historical Note: Also see collection level, Biographical/Historical Notes. Sent to Loraine to check 7-12-18: 1956 Camp Hitinowa, Camp Fire camp, Litchfield, ME. Camp with lakes. Litchfield, MA. Canoeing sequence,. All the shots of the river, game of red rover, ,woodcraft shop are Camp Hitinowa. [Reel 1 probably] 1957 South End Union, Boston Camp, Winning Farms at Woburn, MA [mixed races]. Overnight camp for South End and Roxbury, MA, kids. 1 summer Brockton YWCA Camp, Brockton MA - She directed it for 3 years. It's the camp with the Indian pow wow. Tower Day Camp, camp with horses & small outdoor pool. She directed for 3 years. Debbie in pictures. Early 1960s. Jitterbugging Reel 1 is probably Tower Camp. Nashua Fresh Air Camp, Peterboro, NH, underprivileged kids. She was business manager for 1 year. North End Union Camp, mostly Italian, held at Pembroke MA. 1 summer. Boston South End Union at Winning Farms, Woburn, MA 1 year -- mixed race "The Unions" were settlement house overnight camps. North End Union Camp was held in Pembroke, MA. Boston South End Union Camp at Winning Farms, Woburn, MA.
  • Genres: Home Movies
  • Places: 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
  • Access & Use: Contact Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP) info@lesbianhomemovieproject.org. No re-use without permission. LHMP must contact film donor & participants with regard to any re-use.
  • Color or B&W: Mix
  • Related Versions: ""Camps," Loraine Sumner Collection, Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP).
  • Running Time: 15:33
  • Rights: Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP) holds all rights. Donor must approve all uses.
  • Sound: Silent
  • Subjects: Lesbian mothers, Lesbian nuns
  • Creators: Loraine Sumner
  • Collaborators & Participants: Debbie Sumner, Loraine's daughter For further information or if you or friends took part in this event, be great if you emailed us at info@lesbianhomemovieproject.org & let us know. We'll share your input if that's okay, or just preserve it.
  • Source Format: 8mm, Super 8
  • Format: 8mm, Super 8
  • Viewing Log: Camp Hitinowa. Sunset. Camp buildings. Campers playing "Rover Red Rover." Woodcraft shed. Counselors in the dark? Sunset bonfire. Canoeing. Children in woods. Counselors fooling around on dock. Children in water. River view. Children on dirt road. Dog in water. Nashua or North End Union Camp,Fresh Air Camp, Oldham Lake, Peterboro, NH. Loraine worked there 1 year as business manager. Mostly Italian kids, Sumner recalled. Tower Day Camp. Children in pool, synchronizing. Overexposed. Native american dancing? Kids watch. Horseback riding. Debbie riding pony? Palomino. Children and counselors on grass. Counselors in discussion circle. Children and counselors on dirt road, on grass. Jumping hurdles. More horseback riding. Volleyball. Pool with little kids. Kids in funny hats. Kids parade in funny hats. Kids watch funny hats. Horeback riding as native americans with feathers on some heads. Petting a burrow? Kids on fence. Tether ball? Pool. Campers outside building. Mature woman with hands on hips. Man with cigarette. Kids all around. Girls filing into building. South End Union Day Camp. Counselors jitterbugging. Campers look on. Most kids from Roxbury, according to Sumner