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Out and About for the Sebago Lakes Region of Maine July 19-25

“Sebago Music Festival,” Deertrees Theater, Harrison

July 20-22, Friday-Sunday, 8am/gates open, Waterford World’s Fair, small community agricultural fair with workshops, a craft fair and children’s activities, $5, 36 Irving Green Road, North Waterford. FMI: 207-890-1097, www.waterfordworldsfair.org.
July 20-21, Friday-Saturday, 9:30am-3:30pm, Shearbrooke Farm Summer Textile Workshop, learn to work with wool fiber and create beautiful colors through hand dyeing with natural materials, instruction and practice will be relaxed and informal and a light gourmet lunch will be served, no prior experience needed, $65 per day/includes lunch, Shearbrooke Farm, 400 Saco Road, Standish. FMI: 207-625-3325, www.sacovalleyfiberartists.com/shearbrooke.html.
July 20-22, Friday-Sunday, 10am/Friday-Opening Events, Yarmouth Clam Festival, annual festival with plenty of clams to eat, also Maine State Pro-Am Clam Shucking Contest, entertainment all weekend, art and crafts, Diaper Derby, races and contests, carnival, various locations, Yarmouth. FMI: 207-846-3984, www.clamfestival.com.
July 21-22, Saturday-Sunday, 7am/events begin, Annual MollyOckett Days Festival, events on Saturday include arts and crafts fair, parade through town at 10am, contest, Native American demonstrations, live entertainment, frog jumping contest, wagon rides, plenty of food, Native American drumming and dancing, fireworks at dusk, Sunday features the MollyOckett Days Classic Road Race at 8am, Bethel Village, Bethel. FMI: 207-824-2282, www.mollyockettdays.com.
July 21, Saturday, 9am-5pm, 34th Annual Founder’s Day & Classic Car Exhibit, the showpiece of the charity event is The Bahre Collection of antique and Classic cars, housed at the birthplace of Hannibal Hamlin, Abraham Lincoln’s first vice-president, collection of over fifty vehicles includes one of the world’s finest assemblages of Packards, $10-$12, Hamlin Memorial Library and Museum, 16 Hannibal Hamlin Drive, South Paris. FMI: 207-743-2980, www.hamlin.lib.me.us.
July 24, Tuesday, 7:30pm, Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival, Program II “Café Music” works by Mozart, Brahms and Schoenfield, $25, Deertrees Theatre, 156 Deertrees Road, Harrison. FMI: 207-583-6747, www.segabomusicfestival.org.
July 25, Wednesday, 2:30pm, MET Opera: Live in HD Summer Encore Series, “Der Rosenkavalier,” Strauss’s comic masterpiece of love and intrigue in 18th-century Vienna stars Renee Fleming as the aristocratic Marschallin and Susan Graham in the trouser role of her young lover, $18/general, $15/seniors, $10/students, Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center, Fryeburg Academy, Fryeburg. FMI: 207-935-9232, www.fryeburgacademy.org.

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