BETHEL – The heritage of Bethel will be the focus of a festival scheduled for this weekend.

The 29th annual Sudbury Canada Days will take place Friday through Sunday on the grounds of the Robinson, Mason and Hastings houses on Broad Street. The festival focuses on the town’s 18th century heritage and its former time as Sudbury Canada, an area of land awarded to the town of Sudbury, Mass., in 1768.

On Friday, Donna Cassidy, professor of American and New England studies and art history at the University of Southern Maine, will speak on artist and Lewiston native Marsden Hartley. The lecture, which focuses on Hartley’s relationship to the region, will take place at 7:30 p.m. at the Dr. Moses Mason House exhibit hall.

During the day on Saturday and Sunday, 18th century re-enactors, craft demonstrations, flower and art shows, and exhibits will be on display. Saturday will also feature a bean supper, with tickets available at the Bethel Historical Society museum shop.

On Sunday, an open house will be held at the Lower Sunday River Schoolhouse on Sunday River Road in Newry from 1 to 4 p.m. A lecture by Earl Morse of Waterford on recreational steamboating on Maine lakes will be presented at 2 p.m. at the Mason House exhibit hall. The festival concludes with hymns at the Middle Intervale Meetinghouse on Intervale Road.

All events at the festival are free with the exception of the bean supper and tours of the Mason House period rooms. Events and times are subject to change without notice.

For more information, contact the Bethel Historical Society at 824-2908 or 1-800-824-2910 or visit bethelhistorical.org.