LEWISTON – A Senior College “Food for Thought” luncheon lecture for Tuesday, Oct. 14, will be the Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Project.

Project Director Don Nicoll and Assistant Director Andrea L’Hommedieu will present the program at L/A College.

The speakers will cover the career of the late secretary of state and U.S. senator, who donated his papers to Bates College, and will describe many items in the collection at the Muskie Archives.

The noon program cost is $5, which includes lunch, and is open to anyone. Call 753-6510 by Monday , Oct. 13, for reservations.

Literary meeting

AUBURN – The Woman’s Literary Union will meet at 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9, at the Horatio G. Foss Mansion, Elm Street.

The speaker will be Nancy LeCompte, an Auburn native, the founder of Ne-Do-Ba, which means “friends” in the Abenaki language. It is a nonprofit organization that promotes research of the Wabanaki history of Western Maine and shares information with the public. She is also the author of ” Androscoggin County, Maine: A Pictorial Sesquicentennial History, 1854-2004.” Refreshments will be served and guests are welcome.

Star points

AUBURN – Pine Cone Chapter 26, Order of the Eastern Star, will meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9, at the Masonic Hall, 1021 Turner St.

The star points will be honored and a special program will be presented by the grand star points: Grand Adah Cynthia Adams, Grand Ruth Charlene Cox, Grand Esther Roma Pelletier, Grand Martha Betty Perkins and Grand Electa Gladys Moore.

The meeting will be preceded by an Eastern Star Training Awards for Religious Leadership supper at 6:15 p.m. for $3 a person.

The following District 4 chapters will participate: Pioneer 11, Mt. Olivet 29, Lakeside 60 and Pine Cone 26. All money will go to the awards program. Jerri A. Holt, awards committee chairwoman, will speak on the program.

All Eastern Star members are welcome.

Grange notice

AUBURN – Danville Junction Grange 65 will meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9, at the grange hall. David Young, Legislative Committee chairman, is in charge of the program, when resolutions for State Grange will be discussed. Refreshments will be served after the meeting. All grange members are welcome.

DAR session

BOWDOIN – Regent Jayne Bickford announces that Burnt Meadow Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, will meet at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11, at the home of Marion Spear. The budget will be discussed and voted on, and Corley Anne Byras will present a program titled “This and That.”