Out and About for the York/Sanford Lakes Regions of Maine July 12-19

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“Ossipee Valley Fair,” South Hiram

July 12-15, Thursday-Sunday, 7:30am/gates open, 2pm/Thursday and Friday midway, 11am/Saturday and Sunday midway, Ossipee Valley Fair, a true country fair with livestock, events and exhibits, novelty events like egg toss, watermelon seed spitting, tractor pulls and more, pay one price for rides and admission, $10/ages 5-55, $5/55 and over, Ossipee Valley Fairgrounds, South Hiram. FMI: 207-793-8434, www.ossipeevalleyfair.com.

July 12-14 and 16-18, Thursday-Saturday and Monday-Wednesday, 9:30am-5pm/Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 9:30am-8pm/Tuesday and Thursday, 9:30am-12:30pm/Saturday, “The Moving Panorama of Pilgrim’s Progress,” More than fifteen years of research and restoration have come to a show-stopping finale with a major exhibition and public programs focused on the Moving Panorama of Pilgrim’s Progress. This summer marks the completion of a major grant-funded project to conserve this national treasure of 19th-century American art, which was thought lost for 100 years and rediscovered only in 1996, $5/adults, $3/seniors, $2/ages 7-18, free/6 and under, free admission/Fridays between 4 and 8pm, Saco Museum, 371 Main Street, Saco. FMI: 207-283-3861, www.dyerlibrarysacomuseum.org.
July 13-15 and 19, Friday-Sunday and Wednesday, 7:30pm/Friday, Saturday and Wednesday, 2pm/Sunday, “Once On This Island, Jr,” Caribbean adaptation of the popular Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale “The Little Mermaid, a almost non-stop song and dance show, presented by Sanford Maine Stage, $12/general, $10/seniors and students, Sanford Maine Stage, 1 Hilltop Lane, Springvale. FMI: 207-324-8227, www.sanfordmainestage.com.
July 14, Saturday, 10am-4pm, Garden Tour: Kezar Falls, Parsonsfield and Porter, self-guided tour features 11 gardens, includes Rhonda and Rick Sanborn’s award-winning perennial gardens photographed for articles in Down East Magazine and Birds and Bloom, advanced tickets and tour maps may be purchased at Kezar Falls Hardware and Village Jewelers, Cornish, the day of the tour tickets to be purchased at the Riverside Methodist Church, $12/advance, $15/day of, Riverside United Methodist Church, Routes 25 and 160, Kezar Falls. FMI: 207-625-3082, www.cornish-maine.org.
July 14-15, Saturday-Sunday, 10am and 12pm/Saturday, 10am/Sunday, “Rapunzel,” witty, tongue-in-cheek retelling of a perennial favorite gives us a possessive mother who happens to be a witch, a tentative young man who happens to be a prince and a strong-willed but naïve young girl with the longest hair you’re ever likely to come across, $11, Ogunquit Playhouse, 10 Main Street, Ogunquit. FMI: 207-646-5511, www.ogunquitplayhouse.org.
July 14, Saturday, 7:30pm, C.J. Chenier and the Red Hot Louisiana Band, Zydeco singer and accordionist, bayou buffet at 5:30pm next door at the Old White Church ( add $20 for admission to this), reservations required for both, $30/general, $25/students and seniors, Saco River Theatre, Salmon Falls Road, Bar Mills. FMI: 207-929-6472, www.sacorivergrangehall.org.
July 15, Sunday, 1-4pm, 8th Annual Victorian Tea, Victorian victuals and teas with music by harpist Jane Wilcox Hively, proceeds to benefit the Friends of Parsonsfield Seminary Restoration, $15/advance, $20/day of, Parsonsfield Seminary, Route 160, Parsonsfield. FMI: 207-793-8825, www.parsonsfieldseminary.org.

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