RANGELEY — The 29th annual Logging Festival will be held by the Rangeley Lakes Region Logging Museum on Friday and Saturday, July 24 and 25. The museum, celebrating its 30th anniversary, plans an evening of music, a parade on Main Street, a woodsmen’s competition, new exhibits and a bean-hole bean dinner.

On Friday afternoon at the museum site on Route 16, visitors can watch George Slinn and Homer Everhard begin the 22-hour process of baking bean-hole beans. Slinn and Everhard will  serve up the beans on Saturday.

The museum’s main building will open at 11 a.m. Friday. A new exhibit on the Davistown logging camps will be on display. Logging films will be shown throughout the festival. Also on display are permanent exhibits.

About 4:30 p.m. Friday, museum visitors can taste the biscuits that Stephen Richard mixes and bakes on the camp-style reflector ovens placed around open fires, as in early logging camp days. A program will begin at 7 p.m. in the undercroft of the Church of the Good Shepherd, Main Street, with the Little Miss and Little Mister Wood Chip talent contest. The winners will ride down Main Street in Saturday’s parade.

Also on Friday evening, the museum will induct Bud Fields of Rangeley into the Loggers’ Hall of Fame and bestow the same award, posthumously, on his father, Clem Fields. Music will feature the return of fiddler, Simon St. Pierre of Smyrna Mills. Accompanying him will be Joe Pomerleau of New Hampshire. Fiddlehead Revue, young musicians from Rangeley, will also appear. Entrance fees are $3 adults, $1 older children, and free for children 5 and under; door prizes will be given.

The Logging Festival parade will start at 10 a.m. Saturday from the Rangeley Inn. Judges will award seven museum prizes in six categories. Events then move to the museum site where there will be music, children’s games and displays. An entrance fee of $3 for adults, $1 for children 6 to 18 (5 and under free) offers admission to all activities.

The beanhole bean dinner will begin at 11:30 a.m. ($8 for adults, $3.50 for children 11 and under). Simon St. Pierre and Joe Pomerleau will play and sing in the afternoon, and Rodney Richard Sr. will carve a chainsaw bear and auction it off to the highest bidder.

The woodsmen’s competition will start around noon with Master of Ceremonies Ron Haines. Throughout the day, artists will sell crafts. For more information, call the Richards at 864-5595 or visit http://mason.gmu.edu/~myocom.