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Kathryn Cutter, left, of Auburn and Lucille Lavoie of Livermore set out homemade cookies for the Christmas at Norlands cookie walk in Livermore on Friday. Cutter made 13 kinds of cookies and Lavoie made 34 dozen to help raise money for the Washburn Norlands Living History Center. The cookie walk is part of the center’s annual Christmas event, in which volunteers portray what Christmas would have been like in 1870 in rural Maine. The event goes from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday and costs $10 per adult and $6 per child age 12 and under. For an extra $5, people can fill a bag with cookies. (Daryn Slover/Sun Journal)

“She makes fancy and I make plain,” said volunteer Lucille Lavoie of Livermore. Lavoie and Kathryn Cutter of Auburn made homemade cookies for Saturday’s Christmas at Norlands cookie walk.  (Daryn Slover/Sun Journal)

Each of the rooms on the first floor of the mansion at the Washburn Norlands Living History Center will be open to the public during Christmas at Norlands on Saturday. The rooms are decorated to represent what Christmas was like in rural Maine in 1870. “It takes about 30 volunteers to make Saturday happen,” said Norlands director Sheri Leahan. (Daryn Slover/Sun Journal)

Lucille Lavoie of Livermore and Kathryn Cutter, reflected in mirror, of Auburn set out plates for the Christmas at Norlands cookie walk in Livermore on Friday. Cutter made 13 kinds of cookies and Lavoie made 34 dozen to help raise money for the Washburn Norlands Living History Center. The cookie walk is part of the center’s annual Christmas event in which volunteers portray what Christmas would have been like in 1870 in rural Maine. The event goes from 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturday and costs $10 per adult and $6 per child age 12 and under. For an extra $5, people can fill a bag with cookies. (Daryn Slover/Sun Journal)

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