“Living History Days” will be held at the Maine Forest and Logging Museum’s Leonard’s Mills Settlement in Bradley from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, July 11-12. The museum is affiliated with the University of Maine.

Special events and displays will re-create how Leonard’s Mills inhabitants lived in the 1790s. Visitors may observe volunteers in period costume working on building the settlement’s new blacksmith shop, spinning and dyeing wool, pit sawing, playing bagpipes, and making soap and candles.

Demonstrations will include sawmill operations, blackpowder shooting and birch bark canoe construction. Visitors may walk along nature trails and sample bean-hole beans and biscuits. A trappers’ camp and an Indian encampment also will be set up.

Children may hear storytelling, watch cedar shingles being made and apples being pressed for cider, and sample treats from the “cookie lady.”

Rides on a horse-drawn wagon and bateau, a small boat used for logging, will be available. A town crier will be on hand, and the settlement’s gift shop will be open.

Leondard’s Mills is the original site of a logging and milling community settled in the 1790s. The museum is dedicated to presenting, preserving and stimulating interest in Maine’s forest and logging industry through a variety of educational and recreational programs and activities.

Tours at the Penobscot Experimental Forest, lasting 35 to 40 minutes, will be given by U.S. Forest Service employees. They will focus on two types of forest management — even-age and uneven-age.

Visitors will be taken to trees that grew in 1790 when Leonard’s Mills was a thriving mill settlement.

The event will be held rain or shine. Admission is $3 for people 13 and older. Leonard’s Mills is located off Route 178 in Bradley. For information, call Peggy Hallee at the Maine Forest and Logging Museum, 581-2871.