Scow and swimmers – Apple Island fun. From Campbell Harvery manuscript – (Grandson of Colin and Caroline Campbell). Once in awhile on a Sunday afternoon, Uncle Forrest anchored the scow in deep water so that we could go swimming off it. Besides the buoyancy swimming in deep water gives, there was diving off the railing. The girls’ bathing garments were marvelous. It took a good swimmer to swim in one. The undergarment was one-piece, large bloomer bottom and a cape affair with many ruffles and frills. There was a full skirt, and sometimes a small lace cap.
Scow and swimmers – Apple Island fun
Object ID: 1980-001-073
Collection: Apple Island, Biography, Campbell, Orchard LakeSubjects: Browning, gate, photographic, print, Watkins
Evelyn Noble, Grandmother Campbell, Aunt Annie Linn, and Miss O’Mara
Object ID: 1980-001-068
Collection: Apple Island, Biography, CampbellSubjects: gate, photographic, print
Evelyn Noble, Grandmother Campbell, Aunt Annie Linn, and Miss O’Mara on Apple Island. Bench from Jefferson Ave. Presbyterian Church. Under old sentinel Basswood tree.
Campbell house on Apple Island (faced North).
Object ID: 1980-001-067
Collection: Apple Island, Biography, Campbell, Orchard LakeSubjects: farming, Orchard Lake, photographic, print
The Old House was a rambling, red-roofed, clapboard-sided, one-story structure. The windows were double-sash, six panes to the sash. There was a porch, the ceiling of which was supported by two wooden pillars. It was wide enough to accommodate fairly large, comfortable chairs. There was a central door and on the other side were windows. The porch floor was low, about a step above the path. The central doorway opened to a long, wide, low-ceilinged hallway which ended in a doorway leading into the dining room. This doorway, too, was halfway down the similar hallway which ran across the hall.