Delaney Baker, left, uses a rolling stick July 7 to massage a horse while Bryant Leahy gives it a kiss at Farm Camp at Fox Farm in Monmouth. This is the second year of the camp that teaches children about animals and farming while they perform daily chores, ride horses and enjoy other activities. There are weeklong camps throughout the summer. Visit sunjournal.com to view a video from the afternoon. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal

Jake McCain, 6, swings on his front porch July 8 as his mother, Amy, decorates for the Moxie Festival in Lisbon Falls. “We love Moxie days,” Amy says. “We live for it.” The three-day festival ran through Sunday. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Jim Bennett works in his flower garden July 6 in Buckfield. Bennett, 74, says his green thumb was passed down from his grandmother, who grew peonies on nearby Streaked Mountain. Bennett says gardening is one of the hobbies for which he has time since retiring from building roads for the state and driving a school bus. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Children create art July 5 on the lawn at Broadview Acres in Auburn. Art Van founder Jamie Silvestri, far left, says the van has been pulling into neighborhoods for 19 years to provide children who have limited resources the ability to make art. Silvestri and her small staff are on the road five days a week visiting neighborhoods in Brunswick, Bath, Lewiston, Auburn and Rumford. “We are very small but a powerful group,” Silvestri says of the mobile art therapy organization. From left: Silvestri, Katelyn Boucher, Jordan Hussey, Juliana Nelson, Liam Gallant and Kyle Moeller. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Raven Pellitier, 6, right, plays July 3 with her older sister, Baronica Pellitier-Bisvert, 15, at the south beach of the David Rancourt River Preserve in Lewiston. At left, the girls’ brother, Cameron, puts on his goggles. The family members say they recently discovered the beach on the bank of the Androscoggin River, which is more convenient than the other of the two public beaches they have visited. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal

Grant Harvey, 8, of Bowdoin plays with an inflatable toy gun July Fourth at the Liberty Festival in Lewiston. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal

Lewiston is spelled out in huge letters July Fourth during the Liberty Festival at Veterans Memorial Park on Main Street. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal

A speedboat pulls a tube July 7 at Cochnewagon Pond in Monmouth. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal

Charlotte Tolliver of Mechanic Falls dances July 6 to the music of the Auburn Community Concert Band at Festival Plaza. The summer concert series continues every Wednesday evening through August. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal