Out and About for the Sebago Lakes Region of Maine Aug. 22 – 28

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Out and About for the Sebago Lakes Region of Maine Aug. 22 – 28

Sail & Steam: Exploring Technology through Rufus Porter Murals, Bridgton

Aug. 23-24, Friday-Saturday, 7am/events kick-off, “37th Annual New England Trappers Weekend,” Demonstrations, contests, music, auction, and much more, visit website to access a full schedule of events, $5/adult, Neil Olson’s, 760 East Bethel Road, Bethel. FMI: 207-875-5765, www.bethelmaine.com.
Aug. 23-25, Friday-Sunday, times vary with each day’s event-check program info. on web, 25th Annual Bach Festival, a 3-day festival celebrating 25 years of presenting the music of J. S. Bach featuring the festival orchestra under the direction of Dr. Robert Lehmann of USM and the festival chorus prepared by Dr. Paul McGovern, $10-$20, Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center, 18 Bradley Street, Fryeburg. FMI: 207-935-9232, www.fryeburgacademy.org.
Aug. 23-25, Friday-Sunday, 7pm/Fri. and Sat, 4pm/Sat, 2pm/Sun, Disney’s “The Little Mermaid, Jr,” by Alan Menken and Doug Wright, is the story of Ariel, a beautiful young mermaid who longs to live on land. Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Jr. at Schoolhouse is directed by Ben Potvin and will be performed by a cast of over 20 local children, $10/adults, $8/students and seniors, $5/children under 5, Schoolhouse Arts Center, 16 Richville Road, Standish. FMI: 207-642-3743, www.schoolhousearts.org.
Aug. 24, Saturday, 10:30-11:30am, Children’s Cultural Days: Sail & Steam: Exploring Technology through Rufus Porter Murals, families will study the large Howe Murals and observe how Porter hinted to the changing times in his painting. Children will sketch their own designs for new ways to transport people and ideas, then create a toy sailboat from household materials, $8/adults, $7/seniors & students, free/15 and under, Wales and Hamblen Building, 260 Main Street, Bridgton. FMI: 207-647-2828, www.rufusportermuseum.org.
Aug. 24, Saturday, 11am-2pm, Life of the Honeybee, learn about the industrious life of the honey bee, & the role of the beekeeper. Parts of the bee hive & beekeeping equipment will be on display; & experienced bee keepers will be available to answer your questions. A variety of delicious native Maine honey & other natural products from the hive will be on sale, price of park admission, Maine Wildlife Park, 56 Game Farm Road, Gray. FMI: 207-657-4977, www.maine.gov/ifw/education/wildlifepark.
Aug. 26, Monday, 7:30pm, “A Couple of Blaguards,” a two-character comedy with incidental music, created by the brothers Frank McCourt and Malachy McCourt. These master raconteurs have laced their combined experiences growing up in Ireland, and their escape to America into a vaudeville of comedy, Irish songs and a gallery of relatives, rogues, fools and petty tyrants — priestly and otherwise presented by AIRE theater, Maine’s Irish Theater Company, see site for ticketing information, Deertrees Theatre, 156 Deertrees Road, Harrison. FMI: 207-583-6747, www.airetheater.com.
Aug. 28, Wednesday, 6pm/doors open, 8pm/show, “Waltzing for Dreamers,” featureing The Tennessee Mafia Jug Band, hot picking, powerful harmony singing and riotous hijinks that will perk you up between the “hot young country” acts — that’s the Tennessee Mafia Jug Band, and thank God for them. From the pastoral hills, hollers, shopping malls and interstate highways of Goodlettsville Tennessee, home of some of country music’s legends, comes the most entertaining “blast from the past”. They’re the Tennessee Mafia Jug Band — five guys and a scrubboard, with roots like wisdom teeth. This frolicking fivesome brightens up the stage with rib-tickling old time tunes. Even better, they have an utter lack of self-consciousness (and some might say any sense of decorum). The Tennessee Mafia Jug Band not only know the music, they wear the costumes, tell corny jokes and even do slapstick gags that throw a cable-tv-numbed audience into hysterics……a little off color and a little bit of naughty fun, free, Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way Road, Brownfield. FMI: 207-935-7292, www.stonemountainartscenter.com.

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