Lisa Martell wrote that two years ago, the Guilford Memorial Library held its first garden tour.

“It was a very successful fundraising event,” she said, “and, I am sure organizers are hoping for the same result this year.”

Rural Garden Tour 2005, hosted by Guilford Memorial Library, is 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Saturday, July 23, rain or shine, at 12 sites in Guilford, Dover-Foxcroft, North Dexter and Parkman.

Admission is $10, or $12 the day of the show, and tickets are available at the library, Mr. Paperback in Dover-Foxcroft, and in Guilford at Heart’s Desire Florist or Hudson Avenue Florist.

The event includes a May Picnic at Harold Melvin Memorial Park and King Cummings Park. Tea and cookies will be available all day at the library. Public restroom facilities are available at the library, Guilford Mobil and Guilford Rite-Aid.

You are urged to watch for balloons, arrows and signs leading to the gardens, and should know planners have issued their own traveler’s advisory, informing you that Route 15, between Dover-Foxcroft- and Guilford, is under construction, so you should take that into consideration when planning your trip.

The gardens you will visit in Dover-Foxcroft include those of Donna Hathaway, Ralph and Dottie Gabarro, Martha Lary and Lisa King, and Dick and Carolyn Swett.

The five Guilford sites are Guilford Bed & Breakfast, Guilford Memorial Library, Harold Melvin Memorial Park, and the homes of Rick and Carmen Lander and Sandra Taylor.

In Parkman, you will visit Beverly Crockett’s Steadfast Farm, and Mary Betts’ Snow Brook Gardens.

Your North Dexter hosts will be Dick and Dianne Mitchell.

Martell wrote “proceeds of this event will be targeted to future children’s events” such as German lessons, Abnaki storytellers, magicians and more.

For more information about the Rural Garden Tour, call librarian Linda Packard at 997-9621.

Joan Edwards and members of the St. Croix Valley International Garden Club hope you will join them for their next meeting at 1 p.m. Wednesday, July 20, at the Down East Heritage Museum in Calais.

Edwards reports the event will feature Fredda and Leslie Paul, who will speak about traditional Passamaquoddy medicine, and she wants to be sure you know the public is invited.

For more information about the meeting, or about the organization, call Edwards at 726-9664.

Here is a reminder from Executive Director Josh Torrance that Woodlawn Museum, also known as The Black House, will host an afternoon tea at 3 p.m. on the following Wednesdays: July 20, July 27, Aug. 10, Aug. 17 and Aug 24, at the museum off Route 172 in Ellsworth.

The cost is $12 for members and $15 for nonmembers. Reservations can be made by calling the museum at 667-8671.

Tours of The Black House are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, and 1-4 p.m. Sundays.

The public park is open sunrise to sunset.

Jazz lovers will enjoy hearing Kent Hewitt as he performs in the next SummerKeys Mary Potterton Memorial Piano Concert, its annual Jazz Piano Stylings, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 20, at Lubec Congregational Christian Church.

Admission is free, but donations will be accepted to help keep the piano tuned.

The concert boat will be available for guests who would pay to ride rather than drive from Eastport to Lubec.

For more information about the concert boat or the concert, call 853-2500.

Ben Fuller, curator of the Penobscot Maritime Museum in Searsport, will present an illustrated lecture about George Waymouth’s 1605 expedition along the Maine coast 400 years ago, and the recreation of Waymouth’s Lighthorseman, a small wooden boat powered by oars or sail that carried 16 people.

The lecture is free and open to the public at 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 20, in the Castine Historical Society facility at Abbott School on the town common in Castine.

In addition, CHS board member Del Davis reports that members of the public are cordially invited “to experience the past with a visit to the Society’s innovative, permanent, multimedia exhibit on the Penobscot Expedition of 1779.

“The CHS also recently released, for the first time, an informational brochure highlighting the collections of the Society and membership opportunities,” he added.

To find out more information about the lecture, the permanent exhibit, or the society and its activities, call 326-4118 or e-mail info@castinehistoricalsociety.org.

Joni Averill, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04402; 990-8288.