With COVID surging and cold weather here, many libraries and bookstores this month are offering online events with authors from Maine and away.
Things To Do
Send 2021 off in style with these New Year’s Eve events
There are family events in Yarmouth and Freeport, fireworks in Gorham and Old Orchard Beach, a concert, a virtual polar dip and more.
‘Impressions from Nature in Beeswax’ show to open in Gardiner
GARDINER — “Impressions from Nature in Beeswax,” a show of works by Ann Rhinehardt of Vassalboro, is scheduled to be on view Friday, Nov. 12, through Friday, Dec. 24, at the Monkitree, 263 Water St. Rhinehardt’s paintings are a visual expression of her love of nature, exploring organic forms through color, shape, light and shadow. […]
Where to get scared just for fun this Halloween
With crowd restrictions lifted, there are plenty of Halloween events across Maine this year.
Historic Dresden courthouse to offer tricks, treats, twilight tours
DRESDEN — Lincoln County Historical Association plans to present Halloween tours from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 29 and 30, at the Pownalborough Court House at 23 Court House Road. Participants can experience tours of the courthouse and cemetery, with hauntings provided by actors portraying the ghosts of Pownalborough’s past. Hot chocolate […]
Celebration Barn season finale to feature Mike Miclon’s Early Evening Show
Celebration Barn Theater plans to celebrate this season’s Saturday Show Series finale with Mike Miclon’s The Early Evening Show at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 16 at its 190 Stock Farm Road location in South Paris. The Early Evening Show, a spoof of late-night talk shows, has been performed from New England to Switzerland. Twenty two […]
Union Fairground to host Halloween Trail of Terror
The Friends of Union Fair plans to sponsor its sixth annual Halloween Trail of Terror on the last three Fridays and Saturdays of October (Oct. 15, 16, 22, 23, 29 and 30). The trail offers an after-dark, outdoors, walking event through the barns and around the grounds of the Union Fairground, from 6:30 to 8:30 […]
Pick a pumpkin or another one of these quintessential fall activities
With no restrictions on outdoor gatherings, this fall is full of things to do, including hiking, pumpkin picking and high school football games.
Comfort and Joy concert with Down East Singers set
Down East Singers, directed by Anthony Antolini, will present a free concert Comfort and Joy, with guest fiddler Owen Kennedy at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 17, in the Camden Amphitheatre, on Atlantic Ave. in Camden. The event is co-sponsored by the Camden Public Library. The performance will be a tribute to people who have suffered […]
Go out of the way to see this year’s foliage display
With more places to stay and stop, it’s easier to explore fall foliage in more remote parts of Maine, where forecasters predict brighter colors.