Out and About for the Belgrade Lakes Region of Maine Aug. 16-23

Out and About for the Mid Coast Lakes Region of Maine Aug. 16-23
August 16, 2012
Out and About for the York/Sanford Lakes Regions of Maine Aug. 16-23
August 16, 2012

Out and About for the Belgrade Lakes Region of Maine Aug. 16-23

Shakespeare’s “Two Gentlemen of Verona,” Monmouth Theatre

Aug. 16-18, Thursday-Saturday, Skowhegan State Fair, Skowhegan State Fair, music, vendors, harness racing, animal competitions, agricultural exhibits, and midway, $5/Aug. 9, 13 and 16, $8/Aug. 10, 11, 12, 17 and 18, Fairgrounds, Madison Avenue, Skowhegan. FMI: 207-474-2947, www.skowheganstatefair.com.
Aug. 16-19, Thursday-Sunday, 2pm/Sunday, 7:30pm/Thursday, 8pm/Friday and Saturday, Elton John and Tim Rice’s “Aida,” musical, a classic love triangle: Aida, a Nubian princess, is captured by an Egyptian captian, Radames. He soon falls in love with her and saves her from a life of hard labor and instead gives her as a handmaiden to the Egyptian prince3ss Amneris, his future bride, $18, Community Little Theatre, 30 Academy Street, Auburn. FMI: 207-783-0958, www.laclt.com.
Aug. 16, Thursday, 8pm, “Murdered to Death,” comedy, 1930’s English countryside Miss Maple mystery based on Agatha Christie’s novel, the audience may die of laughter before the murderer is unmasked, Lakewood Theater, 76 Theater Road, Madison. FMI: 207-474-7176, www.lakewoodtheater.org.
Aug. 17, Friday, 7:30pm, Annual Nordica Day Concert, with Jazmin DeRice, soprano and pianist Derek Hertzer, freee, Merrill Hall, Nordica Auditorium, Main Street, Farmington. FMI: 207-778-2042, www.mainetoday.com.
Aug. 17, Friday, 7:30pm, Shakespeare’s “Two Gentlemen of Verona,” adventure of love, desire and disguise, when two dapper young men from Verona head to Milan to broaden their horizons, they fall hopelessly in love with the same girl, throwing their worlds into chaos as then learn a little bit about friendship, loyalty and dating, $10-26, Theater at Monmouth, 796 Main Street, Monmouth. FMI: 207-933-9999, www.theateratmonmouth.org.
Aug. 18, Saturday, all day, 7:45am/first hike departs, Appalachian Trail 75th Anniversary Celebration, multiple hikes will be offered at varying levels, guest speakers, social gathering at Rack BBQ, Sugarloaf, 5092 Sugarloaf Access Road, Carrabassett Valley. FMI: www.matc.org.
Aug. 22, Wednesday, 7-8:30pm, BRCA Lecture “Bees,” Matt Scott, retired State of Maine Aquatic Biologist and re-founder of the Maine State Beekeepers Association, donations welcome, Maine Lakes Resource Center, 137 Main Street, Belgrade Lakes. FMI: 207-495-6039, www.belgradelakes.org.

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