BRIDGTON —  The second “Tea and Quilts” afternoon sponsored by Bridgton Historical Society will take place from 3 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, July 21, at Narramissic, an historic house museum.

This free event will give participants an opportunity to tour the historic Peabody-Fitch farm at Narramissic and see the many signature quilts created in Bridgton in the 19th century, many of them incomplete.

Narramissic will host an opportunity for those interested in dry-sand casting, a method used in metal-working for centuries from 3 to 5 p.m. Thursday, July 23.

Families can learn more about how industries in Bridgton used metal casting techniques to create needed parts for machinery. The casting frames of the famed Perry Turbine, the invention of Bridgton industrialist, William Perry, and cast on-site at the Bridgton Machine Shop, will be on display. The turbine, still used for generating water power in low-flow streams, helped local industries generate power prior to the electrification of the town in the late 19th century. Children will have a chance to create a sand mold and make a plaster-of-paris cast to take home.

Narramissic will host Margaret Reimer at 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 27. Reimer, professor of English at the University of Southern Maine and president of the trustees of Bridgton Historical Society, will share a compendium of poems written about Bridgton by local residents in the 19th and early 20th century.

Narramissic is located at 46 Narramissic Road in Bridgton.

FMI: 207-647-3699, [email protected], www.bridgtonhistory.org.