Out and About for the Belgrade Lakes Region of Maine Oct. 6-12
October 5th, 2011 categories: Belgrade Lakes Region
Fall Festival in Hallowell
Oct. 6, Thursday, 7:30pm, Camille Dungy, award-winning environmental poet and editor African-American nature poetry anthology, free/tickets required, Bates College, 75 Russell Street, Lewiston. FMI: 207-786-6135, www.bates.edu.
Oct. 8, Saturday, 9am, Leaf Peeping on Great Pond, the BRCA and COLA will host a ride upon the floating classroom of Melinda Ann and discuss the physiology and folklore of the changing leaves, Post Office Docks, Belgrade. FMI: 207-495-6039, www.belgradelakes.org.
Oct. 8 and 9, Saturday and Sunday, 9am, Fall Festival, activities include scarecrow city, hands-on art, Hallowell hike or pedal, Japanese ‘taiko’ drumming, bonfire and more, free to browse, downtown Hallowell. FMI: 207-620-7477, www.hallowell.org.
Oct. 8, Saturday, 5pm, Belgrade Oktoberfest, concert and activities outside at Great Pond, rock with School Street Band, Belgrade Rec Center, Belgrade. FMI: 207-495-6039, www.belgradelakes.org.
Oct. 8, Saturday, 7pm, Jonathan Edwards, he burst on the music scene nearly 40 years ago with the mega-hit “Sunshine,” a cheerful anthem of defiance written at the height of the Veitnam War era, today he remains as original, energetic and relevant as he was all those years ago, $32, Winthrop Performing Arts Center, 211 Rambler Road, Winthrop. FMI: 207-441-1463, www.winthropconcerts.org.
Oct. 8, Saturday, 7:30pm, “Altered Egos,” Mike Miclon, Dickie-Hyper-Hynie and Moto Hoonchbach will once again attempt to perform a show together, pulling from years of material from each character, this show is a potpourri of schizophrenic mayhem, $15/adults, $12/seniors, $10/children 12 and under, Oddfellow Hall, Route 117, Buckfield. FMI: 207-336-3306, www.oddfellow.com.
Oct. 11, Tuesday, 2-4:30pm, Movies in Maine: Cider House Rules, the film adaptation of John Irving’s novel ‘The Cider House Rules,’ set in rural Maine, it tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch – saint and obstetrician, found and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Cloud’s, ether addict and abortionist, includes popcorn and beverage, .50, Auburn Public Library, 49 Spring Street, Auburn. FMI: 207-333-6640, www.auburnpubliclibrary.org.
Tom - MrLakefront
