FREEPORT — On Sunday, Oct. 2, the Freeport Historical Society will celebrate its 36th Pettengill Farm Day, featuring lively acoustic music played in most every tradition from Celtic to country to bluegrass.

Chase the Fiddlers and Plumb & Hensley will also take the stage, as will magician Richard Potter and young juggler Will Silvers, who recently won the Junior Competition of the World Juggling Federation.

In a program titled “My New England,” Maine Poet Laureate Wesley McNair will read poems about the farms, towns and people of northern New England.

In addition, forester Rene Noel will discuss how to read the New England forest landscape in his “Forensics in the Forest” workshop; and author and heirloom apple expert John Bunker will lead an orchard stroll and discuss the history of apples in New England.

Also as part of Pettengill Farm Day, scheduled from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., there will be a storytelling tent, horse-drawn hay wagon rides, kite-making and flying, hula-hooping, geocaching with L.L.Bean, sack races, apple hucking and a master trades area featuring dry stone wall building, slate carving, wood turning, iron forging, sawyers, penny rug-making and spinning.

Lunch will be available from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. To get to Pettengill Farm, turn right off Main Street onto Bow Street which becomes Flying Point Road. Watch for a right-hand turn onto Pettengill Road and bear right to proceed onto the property. Free, on-site parking.

Suggested event donation is $5 for adults, $2 for children. For more information, call 865-3170, email [email protected] or visit www.freeporthistoricalsociety.org.