History on display

STRATTON – The Dead River Area Historical Society will be open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 3 and 4, Labor Day weekend.

The public is welcome to attend an ice cream social from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 4. Brownie a la mode will be made and served by the society’s volunteers.

Displays include a collection of old carpentry and logging tools, china, glass, church organ, furniture from native families, a complete schoolroom, a memorial room to the “lost” towns of Flagstaff and Dead River, the lineage of several native families and memorabilia from native homesteads.

For more information, call Mary Henderson at 246-2271.

Benefit supper

PHILLIPS – A benefit spaghetti supper for Marc Carrier, who is undergoing cancer treatment, will take place from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 9, at the Phillips Elementary School. Carrier is the husband of Betty Lou (Gould) Carrier of Phillips.

Tickets for the meal will be sold at the door or may be bought in advance by calling 639-2279, 639-2150 or 639-2552. Prices are $5 for adults and $3 for children under 5. A 50/50 raffle will be held at the door.

The meal is sponsored by the North Franklin Snowmobile Club.

Story time set

WILTON – Wilton Free Public Library will have an infant/toddler story time at 10:15 a.m. beginning Tuesday, Sept. 6. It will be followed by a preschool story time at 11 a.m. For more information, call the library at 645-4831.

Gazebo concert

LIVERMORE FALLS – Victor Mercier with Roped and Branded will make their first appearance at the gazebo for a concert at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 6. The public is welcome to bring chairs and hear the music.

Hymn sing

MADRID – A hymn sing will take place at 7 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 11, at the Reeds Mill Church, Reeds Mill Road. The public is welcome to spend an evening singing favorite hymns under the light of the gas lamps. Bringing a flashlight is suggested. For more information, call Ginni at 639-2713.

Despite the soggy weather, 40 people attended a potluck picnic and worship service at the annual Old Home Sunday at the church. The rain began at noon, just as the picnickers arrived, so the food was set up in the one-room church.

The Rev. John Gensel, guest speaker from the Dixfield Congregational Church, invited the congregants to begin the last worship service of the summer by singing “Church in the Wildwood,” traditionally sung as a call to worship.

Later in the service, youth from Lighthouse Baptist Church, Phillips, presented “The Prodigal Son,” a puppet show they had done in their own church during Old Home Days. The service ended with the singing of “When I Think of All That God Has Done,” a hymn written by the Rev. Robert Holcomb, who, before his death, served as worship leader of Reeds Mill Church for many summers.