By Dan Warren

Summer camps invite kids and adults to go into the hinterlands of Maine to see faraway places, and new ones. Meddybemps. Mooselookmeguntic. The Golden Road. Q.E.D.

In 1959, my father built a camp for our family on Hancock Pond in Denmark near Sebago Lake. On one of the back roads was that road sign you see on gift shop postcards: nine or ten wooden slats with names shared by Maine towns and European destinations (Norway, Paris, Denmark, Naples, Sweden…). Pretty cool to a seven-year-old.

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