Out and About for the Mid Coast Lakes Regions of Maine Sept. 14-20

Out and About for the Bangor Lakes Regions of Maine Sept. 14-20
Out and About for the Bangor Lakes Regions of Maine Sept. 14-20
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Out and About for the Mid Coast Lakes Regions of Maine Sept. 14-20

“Castle Tucker Tour,” Wiscasset

Sept. 14-17, Thursday-Sunday, varying times, “Camden International Film Festival 2017,” founded in 2005 and recognized as one of the top documentary film festivals in the world, the Camden Film Festival highlights innovative work that shows a deep commitment to the craft of nonfiction storytelling. The 13th Annual Camden international Film Festival will take place in Camden, Rockport and Rockland. The weekend will feature screening s of nearly 80 documentary films from both emerging and established filmmakers, most of whom attend the festival for post-screening discussions, see site for further information, Camden Opera House, 29 Elm Street, Camden. FMI: 207-236-7963, camdenoperahouse.com.
Sept. 14-17, Thursday-Sunday, 7:30pm/Thurs.-Sat, 2pm/Sun, “The Servant of Two Masters,” Carlo Goldoni’s classic commedia dell’arte tale of mistaken identities, characters in disguise, and absurd situations updated to the modern era. Truffaldino arrives in Venice with one master, quickly acquires another, then must serve them both while maintaining the illusion he serves only one. When both servants end up at the same inn, Truffaldino’s powers of improvisation are put to the test, and the results are hilarious, $12-$15, Freeport Performing Arts Center,, 30 Holbrook Street, Freeport. FMI: 207-865-2220, www.fcponline.org.
Sept. 16, Friday, 9am-4pm, “Bethel Harvestfest & Chowdah Cookoff,” celebrate the harvest and the beginning of fall foliage season with arts, crafts, music, a farmers’ market, a chowder and apple pie cookoff, and much more on the town common. Don?t miss the Chowdah Cookoff ? hundreds of hungry tasters line up as many of your favorite restaurants vie for Peoples? or Judges? Choice, free, Bethel Town Common, Bethel. FMI: 207-824-2282, www.bethelmaine.com.
Sept. 15, Friday, 10-11:30am, “Castle Tucker Tour,” come and peek into the nooks and crannies of Castle Tucker on a Behind Closed Doors Tour. There is something new to see whether you are a first-time or repeat visitor on this leisurely in-depth tour that includes rooms and stories not included on the general tour. This unique mansion is filled with the original furnishings and decoration of the family who lived here for over 140 years. Castle Tucker is one of the most complete and original Victorian homes in the United States. Advance registration and payment is required. Space is limited. Built in 1807 by one of Wiscasset’s most prominent citizens, and Judge Silas Lee, Castle Tucker is an unusual style house, with a square Federal style center and two rounded bow ends. In 1858, Captain Richard Tucker Jr., scion of a prominent Wiscasset shipping family, bought the house for his new and growing family. The Tuckers updated and redecorated to reflect the fashions and styles of their time. Very little was changed in the house after 1900, including a kitchen with four generations of kitchen technology still in place where it was used, $10/Historic New England Members, $15/non-members, Castle Tucker, 2 Lee Street, Wiscasset. FMI: 207-882-7169, historicnewengland.org.
Sept. 15, Friday, 6-8pm, “Star Party on Beech Hill,” Coastal Mountains Land Trust and the Camden Public Library will team up for an early evening of sky gazing. Land Trust staff will open Beech Nut, the historic sod-roofed stone hut on top of Beech Hill preserve, for this special evening. There will be several telescopes available and Children’s Librarian Miss Amy will provide guidance for celestial viewing. Be sure to bring a blanket to sit on, jackets for cool weather, and a flashlight to help guide your way down the ¾-mile gentle farm road! This event is weather dependent, making pre-registration required so that we may contact you if the Star Party is cancelled due to cloudy weather, free, Beech Hill Preserve, Beech Hill Road, Rockport. FMI: 207-236-7091, www.coastalmountains.org.
Sept. 17, Sunday, 7:30pm, “Dougie MacLean,” Scotland’s Dougie MacLean has built an international reputation as songwriter, composer and extraordinary performer on his own terms. This talent has taken his performance to concerts and festivals all over the world and to the stages of Carnegie Hall in New York, London’s Festival Theatre and the Sydney Opera House. Other appearances of note include sharing the stage with Lou Reed and Eddi Reader in the grounds of Culzean Castle at the Burns and A’ That festival, featuring on the BBC Hogmanay programme, from Edinburgh Castle with James Taylor and sharing the bill with the legendary Mavis Staples at Glasgow‘s Royal Concert Hall. His songs have been covered by hosts of artists including Scottish stars Paolo Nutini & Amy MacDonald, Irish greats Ronan Keating, Mary & Frances Black, Dolores Keane, Deanta and Cara Dillon, and Grammy award winning US country singer Kathy Mattea. His anthem Caledonia has topped the Scottish charts and become one of Scotland’s most popular contemporary songs, $28/advance, $33/door, Opera House at Boothbay Harbor, 86 Townsend Ave, Boothbay Harbor. FMI: 207-633-5159, www.boothbayoperahouse.com.
Sept. 18, 7:30pm, “Adam Swanson, Ragtime Piano,” Adam Swanson is one of the world’s foremost performers of vintage American popular music, including ragtime, early jazz, the Great American Songbook, and more. He holds a bachelor’s in classical piano and a master’s in musicology from the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University, free, Studzinski Recital Hall, Bowdoin College, 12 Campus Road, South, Brunswick. FMI: 207-798-4141, www.bowdoin.edu/music.

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