Out and About for the Sebago Lakes Region of Maine Sept. 26 – Oct. 2

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Out and About for the Sebago Lakes Region of Maine Sept. 26 – Oct. 2

“Cornish Apple Festival,” Cornish

Sept. 26-28, Thursday-Saturday, 9am/buildings open, “Cumberland Fair,” top-quality, family friendly entertainment and agricultural education, featuring a Rawhide Rodeo with daily exhibitions to include two full Professional Rodeo events, Professional Bull Riding and a Children’s rodeo daily, $9/13 and over, free/12 and under, $3/Thursdays for seniors, 197 Blanchard Rd, Cumberland. FMI: 207-829-5531,www.cumberlandfair.com.
Sept. 26, Thursday, 8pm, “Barn Burner with Robbie Fulks,” The New York Times said, “Fulks is a gifted guitarist, a soulful singer with an expressive honky-tonk tenor, and a natural performer. But what really sets him apart is his songwriting, which is one part artful country, one part artful send up of country and one part a little of everything else, “$17 pp, plus $1 handling fee for concert, Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way, Brownfield. FMI: 207-935-7592, www.stonemountainartscenter.com.
Sept. 26, Thursday, 9-10pm, “Chris Bolter,” be wowed and amazed by the amazing abilities of this family friendly comedy magician, free, Lower Level, Brooks Student Center USM College Ave, Gorham. FMI: 207-228-8011, www.usm.maine.edu.
Sept. 27-29, Friday-Sunday, 7:30pm/Fri. and Sat, 2pm/Sunday, “Arsenic and Old Lace,” farcical comedy, a drama critic learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs, and that insanity runs in his family, $14-$16, Schoolhouse Arts Center, Standish. FMI: 207-642-3743, www.schoolhousearts.org.
Sept. 28, Saturday, 9am-4pm, “Cornish Apple Festival,” features more than this season’s apples, freshly pressed cider and other apple products from local vendors, over 50 vendors offering art, photography, jewelry, crafts, farm produce, apple and non-apple cuisine, free, Route 25, Cornish. FMI: 207-625-4993, www.cornish-maine.org.
Sept. 29-Oct. 6, Sunday-Sunday, 7am/gates open, “Fryeburg Fair,” the 8-day Blue Ribbon Classic has flourished since that first fair when William Walker of Lovell won $3 for the best acre of corn and William Spring of Brownfield earned $1 for the best seed wheat. Today, the early October fair boasts Maine’s largest agricultural event held on 185 acres in the Saco River Valley in the foothills of the White Mountains, Fryeburg Fair attracts more than 300,000 people annually, $10 adults, under 12 free, 1154 Main St., Fryeburg. FMI: 207-935-3268, www.fryeburgfair.com.
October 2, Wednesday, 10-11:30am, “Apple-Cider Making,” join us to pick apples from our apple trees and turn them into delicious fresh cider, $5, Pineland Farms, 15 Farm View Drive, New Gloucester. FMI: 207-668-4800 ext.15, www.pinelandfarms.org.

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