LIVERMORE FALLS – Livermore Falls and Jay are planning a step back in time.
Main Street, USA, 1946, will feature events and displays in the two towns Friday, Dennis Stires of Livermore said Monday.
Stires, an organizers, said “everyone’s invited” to visit the so-called twin towns to experience a community celebrating its heritage.
Most of the events begin at 4 p.m. and last until dark, but a quilt show with hundreds of quilts will begin at 2 p.m. at the First Baptist Church on Church Street in Livermore Falls. And art work by Livermore Elementary School pupils will be on display from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Otis Federal Credit Union in Jay.
There will be music at the gazebo beginning at 5:30 p.m. with the Silver and Gold Band. From 7:15 p.m. to 8:15 p.m., the Old Crow Band will perform.
There will be vintage cars, pre-1947, parked along Main Street and music at the gazebo.
Movies will be shown from 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Murray Hall as they were in the old Dreamland Theater that used to be on Main Street in Livermore Falls. The movies include “Best Years of Our Lives” and a newsreel of Red Sox-Cardinals 1946 World Series. The price of admission is 15 cents or a dozen wire hangers.
Stores will be staying open until 8:30 p.m. so visitors can stop by to do some shopping and fill out forms for door prize, Stires said.
One of the vacant stores will have displays showing how the community will look 60 years into the future when the current eighth-graders are senior citizens, he said.
A cast party for adults featuring a “live big band” will begin at 9:30 p.m. at Lafleur’s in Jay. Dinner and dance with the band runs from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Displays include old schoolhouses at an open house at the SAD 36/Jay Adult Education Center, aerial views of Chisholm at the Franklin Savings Bank, clock tower and bank building in the lobby of Androscoggin Bank, and family history search resources at the Chuck Wagon Restaurant.
The Livermore Falls Town Office is hosting an open house of its new space and a pulp and paper display will be set up there.
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