RANGELEY – The cultural heritage of logging in the western mountains of Maine will be celebrated Friday and Saturday, July 29 and 30, at the 25th annual Logging Festival sponsored by the Rangeley Lakes Region Logging Museum, as part of Rangeley’s sesquicentennial festivities.

Activities will include a music and dance at the Rangeley Inn, a parade on Main Street, a woodsmen’s competition, museum exhibits and a bean-hole bean dinner. The museum will also honor Luke, Adrian and Guy Brochu of Pleasant River Lumber Co., who made a donation of land this year in support of the museum’s goal to display the forest and timber heritage of Rangeley.

Visitors will be able to watch George Slinn, a veteran of Boy Scout bean-hole bean dinners, and Homer Everhard begin the 22-hour process of preparing the ground and baking bean-hole beans on Friday afternoon at the museum.

The main building will open at 11 a.m. Friday so visitors can see the “Working the Woods” exhibit.

About 5 p.m. Friday, visitors can taste the biscuits that Stephen Richard mixes and bakes on the camp-style reflector ovens placed around open fires, as in early logging camp days.

The parade will start at 10 a.m. Saturday on Main Street, with Farmington’s Old Crow Band; floats by the Giving Tree, the United Kingfield Bank, and others; and displays of equipment and logging trucks.

Events will move to the museum on Route 16 where there will be more music, children’s games and displays of logging equipment and trucks. Entrance fee is $2 for adults, $1 for children 6 to 18, age 5 and under free.

The bean-hole bean dinner will begin at 11:30 a.m. and shortly after, contestants will line up for the woodsmen’s competition. Rodney Richard Sr. will chain-saw a bear and auction it off. For more information, call 864-5595.