POLAND — Excelsior Grange will have an open house from 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday, June 18, in celebration of the Grange Hall’s recent listing on the National Registry of Historic Places.

Refreshments will be served at 6 p.m.

At 7 p.m. Doug Hodgkin, retired Bates College history professor, will discuss the early days of the grange movement in the county and the role granges played in forming the Maine State Grange.

Excelsior Grange, organized in 1874, was the fifth grange organized in Maine and is today the oldest continuously operating grange in the state.

There will also be a reunion of all former Excelsior Junior Grange members, and part of the program will be devoted to them. There will be a slideshow presentation of Junior Grange activities from the past and other items presented by former members.

The program is free and open to the public.

FMI: 207-998-2301.