BETHEL – Mollyockett Day, an annual community event honoring the legend of Mollyockett, a Pequawket Indian who lived among and befriended the early settlers of eastern Maine, will be held July 15.

Celebrated since 1960, Mollyockett Day features a parade, a road race, a duck race, arts and crafts, an Artirondack chair auction, the library book sale, a car show, entertainment, food, a frog-jumping contest, fireworks at dusk, and other events.

Mollyockett Day kicks off with the KeyBank Mollyocket Day Classic Road Race at 8:30 a.m. with run and walk categories for all ages. The parade begins at 11 a.m. with “Yard Art” as this year’s theme.

The Bandstand on the Bethel Common is the site of the crowning of this year’s Princess Mollyocket as well as an array of entertainment featuring Roger Tincknell, the Mahoosuc Community Band, The Yet to be Named Banjo Club, a fiddlers contest, and Malinda Liberty & The Silver & Lace Band. The 10th Annual Old Time Fiddlers Contest is open to fiddlers of all ages.

FMI: call 824-3575.