BETHEL – Many activities have been planned for this summer and fall at the Bethel Historical Society’s Regional History Center on Broad Street.

The weekend of Aug. 12 to 14 will feature the 26th annual Sudbury Canada Days, which will include 18th century re-enactors and craft demonstrators, a banjo band, plus horseshoe, badminton and croquet tournaments, flower show, historical videos, old-time children’s games, children’s parade, ice cream-eating contest, log driver’s bean supper, logging/farming exhibit and an old-time hymn sing.

The 14th annual Hall Memorial Lecture, which will begin the weekend, will be presented by Bunny McBride, Indian specialist and adjunct lecturer of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University. She will speak on “Molly Ockett and Other Wabanaki Women Healers.”

An exhibit, “Barn Again! Celebrating an American Icon,” will open on Friday, Aug. 19, in the Dr. Moses Mason Barn at 14 Broad St. It is sponsored by the Maine Humanities Council in cooperation with the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Services and the National Building Museum, with assistance from the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

The exhibit will be on display through Oct. 22. During that time, there will be a number of local events designed to highlight its presence in the western Maine area.

Among them will be the annual meeting lecture on Sept. 8, with Christi Mitchell of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission presenting a lecture on the history of Maine barns.

A barn tour followed by a barn dance will be held on Sept. 17. There will be a harvest supper at Alder River Grange on Oct. 8 followed by Maine humorist Norbert Twitchell. Bill Bunting will make a presentation on farm work on Oct. 13 at Pleasant Valley Grange. On the last day of the exhibit, Don Cyr, project scholar, will make a slide presentation on the barns of Aroostook County.

The last lecture of the 2005 season will be on Nov. 10 and will feature slide views of old photographs of the town of Newry followed by an oral history session in honor that town’s bicentenary.

For more information, call 824-2908 or 1-800-824-2910, e-mail [email protected] for visit www.bethelhistorical.org.