BETHEL – Don Cyr, director of the Musee Culturel du Mont-Carmel in Lille, will be the speaker at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22, in the Bethel Historical Society’s O’Neil Robinson House on the final day of the barn exhibit.

Cyr is project scholar for the Maine Humanities Council’s portion of the Maine exhibit to accompany the Smithsonian Institution’s traveling exhibition, “Barn Again! Celebrating an American Icon.” He is a PhD graduate student at the University of Maine in Orono.

Cyr’s appearance is sponsored in part by a grant from the Maine Humanities Council. The lecture is free and open to all. Refreshments will follow.

The Barn Again! Celebrating an American Icon exhibit was organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and the National Building Museum, with assistance from the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

The project was made possible through the support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Hearst Foundation. Additional funding has been provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Smithsonian Institution Special Exhibition Fund and the Smithsonian Educational Outreach Fund.

For more information about the Bethel Historical Society, people may call 824-2908 or 800-824-2910 or e-mail [email protected]. The Web site is www.bethelhistorical.org.