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Campfire in the Redwoods by Edwin Deakin (1876), Laguna Art Museum. In North America, a campfire story is a form of oral storytelling performed around an open fire at night, typically in the wilderness, largely connected with the telling of stories having supernatural motifs or elements of urban legend. Whereas the activity is not incomparable ...
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A tall tale is a story with unbelievable elements, related as if it were true and factual. Some tall tales are exaggerations of actual events, for example fish stories ("the fish that got away") such as, "That fish was so big, why I tell ya', it nearly sank the boat when I pulled it in!"
Camp songs or campfire songs are a category of folk music traditionally sung around a campfire for entertainment. Since the advent of summer camp as an activity for children, these songs have been identified with children's songs, although they may originate from earlier traditions of songs popular with adults.
A campfire made using twigs and pine cones. A campfire is a fire at a campsite that provides light and warmth, and heat for cooking. It can also serve as a beacon, and an insect and predator deterrent. Established campgrounds often provide a stone or steel fire ring for safety. Campfires are a popular feature of camping. At summer camps, the ...
The film opens with a campfire story being told by Clovis Madison (Roscoe Lee Browne) to a group of children, about frontiersman Jebediah McKenna (Chuck Norris) who was killed a century ago in the Tanglewood forest by armed men after refusing to sell his land to a lumber company. McKenna was magically brought back to life and given the power to ...
The Campfire Girls on the Program, or, Singing and Reciting at the Sending Station: Margaret Penrose: Goldsmith 1910s: Ethel Hollister's First Summer as a Campfire Girl: Irene Elliott Benson: M.A. Donohue & Co. 1910s: The Campfire Girls at Forest Lodge, or, The Strange Hut in the Swamp: Margaret Penrose: Goldsmith 1912: How Ethel Hollister ...
"The Other Day I Met a Bear" is one of the songs sung by Barney the dinosaur on the 1990 children's video Campfire Sing-along except it was shortened to 4 stanzas instead of 10. On Barney & Friends, the tune was used for The Exercise Song. The 2007 album For the Kids Three! includes a version of the song by Barenaked Ladies. [3]