Upcoming events
“You Can Get There from Here – How Transportation Defined Freeport,” Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Freeport Historical Society Harrington House, 45 Main St., Freeport. $3 donation suggested. Exhibit open through Feb.1, 2015. For more information, see www.freeporthistoricalsociety.org.
Alcoholics Anonymous, Wednesdays, noon and 7:30 p.m.; AlAnon, Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m.; Business Debtors Anonymous, Wednesdays, 4:30 p.m., First Parish Church Congregational, 40 Main St., Freeport.
Steamer Dig, Wednesday, July 23, 2 p.m., Wolfe’s Neck Woods State Park, Freeport. Learn about the life and times of the soft-shell clam. Then try your hand at digging this delicacy of the deep mud with an experienced guide. Bring mud sneakers or high boots, gloves, and clam hoe or spading fork. Meet at circle of benches by second parking lot. Free with park admission. Registration required. For more information, call 865-4465.
Gnomes & Fairies craft project, with local artist Julie Yeo, Wednesday, July 23, 4 p.m., Freeport Community Library. For Summer Reading participants ages 5 and up. Signup required. Call 865-3307.
Durham Republican Committee caucus, to nominate a replacement candidate for House District 46, Wednesday, July 23, 7 p.m., Shiloh Chapel, Durham. All registered Republicans welcome. For more information, call Jason Greene, 504-1982.
Free blood pressure check, Thursday, July 24, 10-11 a.m., Freeport Community Services, 53 Depot St. Sponsored by CHANS Home Health Care.
Tide Pools, Thursday, July 24, 2 p.m., weather permitting, Wolfe’s Neck Woods State Park, Freeport. Visit this informal program on the rocky shore near Googins Island to discover the secrets of a tide pool. Meet on the shore across from Googins Island. Free with park admission. For more information, call 865-4465.
N.E. Town, soul, folk, R & B, blues, rock and more, performs Thursday, July 24, 6:30 p.m., Winslow Park, Freeport. Concerts free with park admission. For more information, call 865-4198.
Freeport Appointments Committee, Thursday, July 24, 8 a.m., Town Council Chambers.
Yarmouth Farmers Market, every Thursday rain or shine, 3-7 p.m., Town Hall Memorial Green. For updates and market events, see Yarmouth Farmers Market on Facebook.
Business to Business Connection, Greater Freeport Chamber of Commerce’s business networking group, Thursdays, 7:30-9 a.m., Hilton Garden Inn, 5 Park St. For more information, call 847-5240.
Food Addicts Anonymous, Thursdays, 9 a.m., First Parish Church Congregational, 40 Main St., Freeport.
Freeport Farmers Market, Fridays, 1-5 p.m., Moose Lot between L.L. Bean Flagship and Home stores, Freeport. Through Sept. 12.
“The Wizard of Oz”, Friday, July 25 and Saturday, July 26, 7 p.m., and Sunday, July 27, 2 p.m., Freeport Performing Arts Center. Tickets $10 for adults and $5 for children under 18. Purchase at www.fpconline.org, or at the Freeport Community Center.
Casco Bay Walk, Friday, July 25, 2 p.m., weather permitting, Wolfe’s Neck Woods State Park, Freeport. Enjoy views of rocky shores, nesting ospreys, and islands in the bay on this one-mile hike with a park ranger. Free with park admission. For more information, call 865-4465.
“Dreams and Imaginations,” classical concert by Music’s Quill, Timothy Neill Johnson, tenor, and Timothy Burris, lutenist, Friday, July 25, 7 p.m., Freeport Community Library. Music selections include works by Robert Jones, Francis Pilkington, Philip Rosseter, Robert de Visee and Charles Colman.
Arts & Crafts Market, Saturday, July 26, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., First Parish Church Congregational Church front lawn, 40 Main St., Freeport. Other dates are Aug. 9 and 30, Sept. 13 and 27, Oct. 11 and 25. Vendor spaces are available. For more information, see www.FirstParishMarket.org.
Jeff Tweedy, part of L.L. Bean Concert in the Park Series, Saturday, July 26, 7:30 p.m., Discovery Park, Freeport. Free.
Stroll with the Ranger, Saturday, July 26, 2 p.m., weather permitting, Wolfe’s Neck Woods State Park, Freeport. Take a relaxed tour with the ranger on our wheelchair-accessible path. Wheelchair accessible. Free with park admission. For more information, call 865-4465.
Debtors Anonymous, Saturdays, 9 a.m., First Parish Church Congregational, 40 Main St., Freeport.
State Sen. Stan Gerzofsky and state Rep. Sara Gideon public office hours, Saturday, July 26, 10 a.m.-noon at Bow Street Market, Freeport.
Family Barnyard Programs, Saturdays in July and August, 10 a.m.-noon and 1-3 p.m., Wolfe’s Neck Farm, 184 Burnett Road, Freeport. Visit the barn, pastures and discovery garden and take a tractor ride up into West Bay. $8 per person, free for infants not walking. Participation limited to 12 per session. Reservations recommended. Call 865-4469 or see www.wolfesneckfarm.org.
We love to eat
Baked bean supper, Saturday, July 26, 5-6 p.m., Harraseeket Grange No. 9, 13 Elm St., Freeport. All-you- can-eat three kinds of homebaked beans, hot dogs, biscuits, brown bread, potato salad, pasta salad, cole slaw, homemade pies, beverages. Adults $8, children under 10 $4, free for children 3 and younger. Suppers held fourth Saturday of each month through September.
Freeport Elders Association Pancake Breakfast, first Saturday of each month, Aug. 2, 8-10 a.m., Freeport Community Center, 53 Depot St. Breakfast includes pancakes, sausages, coffee or tea, juice, $3.50 for adults, $3 for seniors, $2 for children 12 and under. Deluxe breakfast is scrambled eggs, pancakes, sausages, biscuit, coffee or tea, juice, $4.50, $4 for seniors.
Barbecue chicken dinner, Saturday, Aug. 2, 4:30-6 p.m., First Congregational Church, 773 Royalsborough Road, Durham. All-you-can-eat chicken, potato salad, green salad, homemade pies and desserts. $9 adults, $5 children 5-12, free for children under 5. Frozen apple pies, made by church members using local apples from Ricker Hill Farm, also be for sale at $10. Several available with no sugar added.
Baked bean and spaghetti supper, Saturday, Aug. 2, 4:30-6 p.m., North Pownal United Methodist Church, 851 Lawrence Road. Three kinds of beans, spaghetti with meat sauce, potato salad, cole slaw, biscuits and brown bread, pickled beets, homemade pies. Adults $7, children 4-12 years $3, free for kids 3 and under.
Baked bean supper, Saturday, Aug. 2, 5-6:30 p.m., in the dining hall of Triangle Club of Casco Masonic Lodge No. 36, 20 Mill St., Yarmouth. Three kinds of beans, hot dogs, cole slaw, hot biscuits, macaconi and cheese and homemade pies. $8 adults, $5 children 5-12, free for children 5 and younger.
Singer-songwriter Jeff Tweedy, leader of the band Wilco, performs a free concert Saturday, July 26, at 7:30 p.m., at Discovery Park at L.L. Bean Freeport. Send questions/comments to the editors.
