100 Years Ago: 1921

Fifteen automobiles filled with Mechanic Falls people attended the ball game at Oxford Thursday afternoon which they say was the finest of the season.

50 Years Ago: 1971

It’s carnival time along Martin Drive in Lewiston. Today Is the date set by neighborhood youngsters for their Muscular Dystrophy Associations of America. Cathy Begin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Begin, will serve as Ringmaster and she’ll be assisted by Pamela Begin, Normand Ouiemette, Denis Moreau, Patrick and Marcel Chaloux, Mark, Julie, Michelle and Susie Girard, Steve Webber, Ann Dion, Anne and Marc Lacasse, Chris Dietrich and Judy Biron.  Beginning at 1 o’clock at 59 Martin Drive, there’ll be such games as sponge throw, ring toss, and knock-down. There’ll also be fortune telling, a spook house and a fish pond.

25 Years Ago: 1996

The Zingo Zango Generic Jug Band will entertain at 7 pm. Saturday on the town common as part of the Bethel Bicentennial Weekend. The band blends nostalgic old, humorous new and original novelty songs, punctuating them with assorted kitchen tools, tin cans, spray cans, whistles, whizzers, bubbles and bells to enhance the more traditional acoustic jug sounds of bass, guitar, mandolin, squeeze-box and washboard. Ellen Lindsey, massage therapist, performs on the stand-up bass. Paul Dube performs on guitar, harmonica, tin cans and vocals when not building rock walls. Martin Swinger plays mandolin, guitar and vocals, and teaches with the Foothills Arts Camp. Valerie Smith sings. plays squeeze-box. jugs, whistles and washboard, and works with and for people with disabilities.

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