Fiddle-icious offers traditional music
Traditional tunes Fiddle-icious, an orchestra of Maine musicians playing fiddle, piano,harp, guitar, banjo, accordion, cello, tin whistle, concertina and upright bass, will entertain in Freeport with traditional music on Saturday, Oct. 27, at 7:30 p.m., at the Freeport Performing Arts Center, 30 Holbrook St.
The tunes are passed on from the Irish, Scottish, Quebecois and Acadian traditions and include reels, jigs, aires, marches, hornpipes, waltzes, step-dancing and singing.
Fiddle-icious is directed by Don Roy, a fiddler from Gorham, who is hailed as a “living cultural treasure” in Maine. He and his wife, Cindy Roy, providing piano accompaniment, both grew up in French Canadian families where music was an integral part of their lives.
Tickets are $10, and are available at the door.
For more information, see “Fiddle-icious – Community of Music,” produced by the Salt Institute, at www.salt.edu/studentwork/multimedia/Fiddleicious.php, or www.fiddleicious.com.
Historic ghosts ?to tell stories
The Freeport Historical Society is offering a new “Ghosts of Freeport’s Past” walking tour this year, taking place in the historic Woodlawn Cemetery, located on West Street.
Tours begin at at 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 26, 27 and 30, and are expected to end by 8 p.m. or earlier.
Led by a lantern-carrying docent and in small groups of 10 guests, the tour visits specific locations at the burial ground where a range of prominent, former Freeporters will share stories from their past.
Groups will be brought into the cemetery every 10 minutes with a tour expected to take about 40 minutes.
The Woodlawn Cemetery holds some of Freeport’s most prominent past residents including shipbuilders, industrialists, maritime captains and their wives, clergy and others whose stories are fascinating.
Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children 12 years and younger. All tour participants must bring a flashlight, dress for the outdoors and be prepared for walking on somewhat uneven ground. Reservations are urged as previous year’s tours have all sold out.
For more information, call 865-3170, email the Freeport Historical Society at info@freeporthistoricalsociety.org or visit www.freeporthistoricalsociety.org.
Project Linus celebrates with blanket day
Project Linus Cumberland and York Counties passed its three-year milestone in September with 5,000-plus blankets delivered for children in the two counties.Volunteers work together to help provide security and comfort to children who are seriously ill, traumatized or in crisis by providing them with a handmade blanket. Project Linus is a national, nonprofit organization named after the security-blanket-toting character from the Peanuts comic strip.
To celebrate, the group will be having a blanket day Saturday, Oct. 20, from 10 a.m.-3 p.m., at Cotton Weeds Quilt Shop in Freeport. Participants will be making quilts to donate and a visit from a local Project Linus baby is expected.
For more information, contact Melodie Provost, Project Linus Cumberland and York Counties coordinator, at 284-5606.
Middle-school stress topic of program
All Regional School Unit 5 parents are invited to a program, How Parents Help With Middle School Stress, Wednesday, Oct. 24, from 6:30-8:30 p.m., at the
Freeport Middle School Library 19 Kendall Lane, Freeport.
Guest speaker is Linda Johnson of Community Counseling Services, who will discuss the signs of stress and discuss tools to help manage it with your middle-school-aged child.
The free program is sponsored by Casco Bay CAN (Create Awareness Now).
Durham Rescue holding gun raffle
Durham Fire and Rescue, in conjunction with Cabela’s, is selling tickets for its annual gun raffle. Only 3,000 tickets will be sold at $20 each and the odds of winning are 1 in 100.
One winning name will be drawn daily starting on Nov. 1 through Nov. 30. The winner will have choice of gun or a Cabela’s gift certificate. Tickets can be purchased from Durham Fire & Rescue at the station. Call 353-2473 for more information. Tickets are also available at the Durham Get & Go.
For more information on the raffle, call Scott St. Michel at 837-3540 or Keith Russell at 837-8748 or visit www.fundraisers.com.
At a recent all-school assembly, all Freeport Middle School students, including, from left, Nick Mitch, Toby Holt, Owen Patrick and Jason D’Amico joined the school’s staff in donning mustaches as the school kicked off its new character education initiative. The mustaches were a nod to the popular national “Got Milk?” advertisements where celebrities are photographed wearing a white milk mustache. The school’s Peer Leader group ran the assembly, which is made up of 42 eighth-graders who are working to educate their peers around teen issues, with the assembly focusing on compassion toward others. The students will follow up the assembly with a school-wide “Compassion in Action” activity. The students will be carving 500 pumpkins for the Camp Sunshine Pumpkin Festival held at L.L. Bean the weekend of Oct. 26. The students are also holding a coin drive for Camp Sunshine and will present the money while delivering the pumpkins. Send questions/comments to the editors.
