Craft sale

NEW SHARON – A craft and food sale will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 26, at the New Sharon Congregational Church vestry. Candy, baked goods, novelties, painted items and baskets will be offered.

Sunday service

FARMINGTON – Pastor Susan Crane has extended an invitation to the public to join the congregation at Henderson Memorial Baptist Church for worship at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 27. “Come and help us light a candle of hope for our world,” she said.

Sunday school classes for all ages will precede worship at 9 a.m. and a time of fellowship will follow the service. All are welcome.

Books available

CHESTERVILLE – The Heritage Society reminds residents that there are a few “Chesterville Memories” scrapbooks left. For those who have not had the opportunity to purchase one, they will be available at the Chesterville Town Office or by phoning Cindy Whittier at 778-3078. The cost is $12. There are also a few Chesterville birthday calendars available for $5.

The next Heritage Society meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 19, at the Town Office. Anyone interested in joining or visiting is welcome. There will be a potluck meal and the group will install new officers.

Create cookbook

STRATTON – The Dead River Area Historical Society is in the process of creating a cookbook. Anyone who would like to contribute recipes is asked to send them to Mary Henderson at P.O. Box 15, Stratton, ME 04982. All proceeds will benefit the museum’s heating cost.

So much restoration work has been done in the museum that it has to be heated. The metal ceiling has been restored; walls and partitions have been painted. Artifacts, manuscripts, photographs and more from 1850 on have been donated or loaned from interested townspeople and descendants of the original families of the Dead River Region.

Exhibits 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 a host of memorabilia from native homesteads. The building has to be heated in order to keep all this preserved for future generations.