Bandana Club Clam Bake at Eagle’s Nest, Pine Point — Help Us Name These Men

Bandana Club Clam Bake at Eagle’s Nest, Pine Point

Every so often a photograph surfaces that captures not a single family, but an entire community at a moment of celebration — and this one is a striking example. Taken at the Bandana Club’s annual clam bake at “Eagle’s Nest” in Blue Point, Scarborough, ME, on September 17, 1915, shows more than sixty men gathered in a wooded clearing for what was clearly a well-established local tradition. An accompanying identification sheet, authenticated decades ago by Judge W.M. Mewer, names roughly two dozen of the men pictured — including a “Chief” and “Ass’t Chief,” hinting at the kind of good-natured mock-civic structure many fraternal and social clubs of the era adopted. For anyone researching the Bandana Club, Blue Point, or Scarborough families in this period, a photograph like this is a rare chance to put faces, names, and a shared social world together in one place.

Identified individuals, left to right

1st row: 1. Harry Hamer — 2. Leon Jones — 3. Jack Sudenfield — 4. George Burdett — 5. Eddie Burdett — 6. Henry Burdett — 7. Louis Thromoulouw — 8. (unnamed) — 9. Herman Gerrish

2nd row: 1. Wesley Mingo — 2. John Marshall — 3. Bob Baylor — 4. Bud Lombard — 5. Charlie Somerset — 6. Henry Rudy — 7. Chief Ted Mingo — 8. Ass’t Chief Louis Wharff — 9. Judge Mewer — 10. Andy Anderson — 11. Harold Hutch — 12. Walter Lake — 13. Sam Lublinsky

Back row: 1. (unnamed) — 2. Henry Steward — 3. Tim Crowley — 4. Frank Libbey — 5. Tom Jones

Can you help?

If any of these names belong to your family tree, I’d love to hear from you — and I’d love even more to hear from anyone who can help fill in the two blanks left on the original identification sheet (1st row, position 8, and back row, position 1), or who recognizes faces among the many men in the crowd who were never named at all. Photographs like this one are only as valuable as the names we can attach to them, so if you have family stories, other photographs from the Bandana Club, or simply a hunch about who might be standing in this crowd, please reach out in the comments or by email. Every name recovered helps preserve a small piece of Pine Point’s community history for the next generation of researchers.

This post was researched and written with the assistance of Claude.ai and edited with Grammarly.