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Wife carrying race at Sunday River Ski Area
October 8-11, 9:00 a.m.-closing, 159th Annual Fryeburg Fair, Maine’s Blue Ribbon Classic continues with harness racing, midway, food booths, the world’s largest steer and oxen show, exhibits, energy row, Old McDonald’s petting farm, agriculture, museums, demonstrations, entertainment, contests and more. $8/person except $10/person on Saturday, free/under age 12, $5/on site parking, Fryeburg Fairgrounds, Route 5, Fryeburg. FMI: 207.935.3268, www.fryeburgfair.com
October 8, 7:30 p.m. “Starr King’s The White Hills and 19th Century White Mountain Tourism,” free lecture presented by Randall H. Bennett, program marks the 150th anniversary of Reverend Thomas Starr King’s seminal guidebook, “The White Mountains: Their Legends, Landscape and Poetry,” (1859), Mason House Exhibit Hall, 10-14 Broad Street on the Common, Bethel. FMI: 207.824.2908 or 800.824.2910, www.bethelhistorical.org.
October 9, 8 p.m. Bob Marley, local comedian and national success, $25/person concert only, dinner is sold out (no credit cards accepted on site), Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dugway Road, Brownfield. FMI: 207.935.7292, www.stonemountainartscenter.com.
October 10, 10 a.m. 4th Annual Mountainview Woodies Fall Foliage Cruise, launch at Moose Landing Marina at 10, motor to Caswell House in Harrison for lunch and then back. Join the fun via boat, or enjoy the view from the shore of these classic wooden boats. Moose Landing Marina, Route 302, Naples. FMI: www.mountainviewwoodies.org.
October 10, 11 a.m. 10th Annual Fall Festival Weekend at Sunday River including the North American Wife Carrying Championships, 278-yard course, winner receives wife’s weight in beer and wife’s weight times 5 in cash, also Arts and Crafts Fair, free concert with Entrain and more, Sunday River Ski Resort, 15 South Ridge Road, Newry.
FMI: 207.824.3000, www.sundayriver.com.
October 10, 5 pm to finish. Annual Harrison Village Library Turkey Supper fundraiser. On the eastern shore of Long Lake at the Camp Newfound dining hall,  off Rte. 35 in Harrison. The food is great, the price is right, and the venue can’t be beat. Adults $8, children $4. FMI: 207-583-2970.
October 10, 5-7:00 p.m. 16th Annual Turkey Dinner with all the fixings, plus homemade pie, $7/adults, $4/children, free/under age 4, benefit church’s Outreach Programs, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 42 Sweden Road, Bridgton. FMI: 207.647.8549, www.stpetersbridgton.org.
October 11, 11:30 a.m. 10th Annual Waterford 5K Fall Foliage and Fun Run Race, benefit the Tony Wadeier Scholarship Fund, 1-mile fun run for kids at 11:30, followed at noon by a scenic run beginning at the historic Waterford Commons and continuing beside Keoka Lake to Bear Mountain Inn and back, held in conjunction with the Greater Bridgton Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce’s Great Western Chili Cook Off, free chili samples to all race participants, Waterford Commons, Route 37, Waterford Flats. FMI: race-207.583.4611, chili cook off-207.647.3472, www.mainelakeschamber.com.
October 14, 11:30 a.m. The Rooster Review, variety show with Carol Noonan, Mike Miclon, Lisa Saffer, Tim Ostendorf, Katy Noonan, Julia Hendrickson and Sonny Barbato, $36 includes lunch, entertainment, gratuity and tax, (no credit cards accepted on site), Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dugway Road, Brownfield. FMI: 207.93.7292, www.stonemountainartscenter.com.
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