Out and About for the Sebago Lakes Regions of Maine July 18-24

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35th Annual Founder’s Day & Classic Car Exhibit, South Paris

July 19-21, Friday-Sunday, 6pm/Friday, parade kicks off event, Yarmouth Clam Festival, great food, entertainment, athletic events, fun-filled family event, Maine State Clam Shucking Contest, Firefighters’ Muster Competition, 41st Annual Diaper Derby, Clam Festival Canoe and Kayak Race, 32nd Annual Men’s and Women’s Professional Bike Race, art show, Main Street, Yarmouth. FMI: www.clamfestival.com.
July 19, Friday, 7:30-9pm, Music without Borders International Piano Festival, distinguished pianist and master teacher Tamara Poddubnaya assembles promising young pianists from the U.S. and Europe for the 7th MWB Festival on the Gould Academy campus, free, Auditorium of McLaughlin Science Center, Gould Academy, Church Street, Bethel. FMI: 207-824-7700, www.bethelmaine.com.
July 20, Saturday, 9am-5pm, 35th Annual Founder’s Day & Classic Car Exhibit, the showpiece of the charity event is The Bahre Collection of antique and Classic cars. The collection, housed at the birthplace of Hannibal Hamlin, Abraham Lincoln’s first vice-president, is open once a year. The collection of over fifty vehicles includes one of the world’s finest assemblages of Packards and highlights American Classics such as Duesenbergs, V-16 Cadillac, Stutz, Graham-Paige and more. Founder’s Day festivities include music, entertainment and crafts fair, $10/adults, $2/12 and under, Hamlin Memorial Library & Museum, 16 Hannibal Drive, South Paris. FMI: 207-743-2980, www.hamlin.lib.me.us/founders_day.
July 20-21, Saturday/Sunday, 9:30am-4:30pm/Saturday, 9:30am-12pm/Sunday, The Ancient Ones, this group of reenactors, in full period dress, will set up a real Living History Camp from the late 1700s-1800s, they will put a canvas tent and have demonstrations going on all day long including fire starting, cooking, trading, tomahawk throwing, flint knapping, flintlock muskets, weaving and the like, $7/adult, $5/seniors and ages 4-12, free/under 3, Maine Wildlife Park, 56 Game Farm Road, Gray. FMI: 207-657-4977, www.maine.gov/ifw/education/wildlifepark.
July 20, Saturday, 7-9pm, Daniel Strange, ‘Life As I Hear It,’ with special guest Ashley Liberty, Daniel Strange is a talented pianist, who has performed at Carnegie Hall, on The Today Show, and with many critically acclaimed artists. His wife, Ashley Liberty, is a reknowned violinist who has performed from Maine to Miami and grew up in 13 different countries around the world. This concert is the sixth in the “Music with a Mission” Series, this concert will support the Windham Center Stage Theatre, $12/adults, $10/students, children and seniors, North Windham Union Church, 723 Roosevelt Trail, Windham. FMI: 207-892-7149, www.musicwithamissiontour.com.
July 21, Sunday, 12-3:30pm, Maine Open Farm Day, includes wagon and tractor rides, barn tours, tours of the 1816 Spinhouse exhibit and the 1850 Boys’ Shop, a bake sale, BBQ and craft demos, free, Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, Route 26, New Gloucester. FMI: 207-926-4597, www.shaker.lib.me.us.
July 22, Monday, 7:30-9:30pm, Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival, Passioni di Italia, Bocchernini: String Trio in D Major, Rossini: Flute Quartet in B-Flat Major, Nino Rota: Trio for Flute, Violin and Piano, Chopin: Variations on a Theme by Rossini, Verdi: String Quartet in E Minor, $15/adults, $10/seniors, $5/students, Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center, 745 Main Street, Fryeburg. FMI: 207-935-9232, www.fryeburgacademy.org.

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