Public invited to Brooks museum open house

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Brooks Historical Society Museum President Betty Littlefield invites you to the society’s first open house at the Pilley Homestead, 1-4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 2, at the Brooks museum.

Given to the historical society in early June by Radio Hall of Famer Robert “Bob” Elliott and his wife, Lee Elliott, of Cundy’s Harbor and New York City, the ancestral home was last occupied by Bob Elliott’s cousin, the late Louise Pilley.

The house, circa 1818, was the site of the first Brooks Post Office in 1819, Littlefield said, and “is presumed to be one of the oldest houses in Brooks, which was settled in 1799.”

Elliott’s great-grandfather, Hiram Pilley, purchased the home in 1863, and Elliott spent many happy summer vacations there.

The museum offers “a glimpse of the lifestyle and furnishings of the early 1900s, with its kitchen, dining room, parlor and bedroom exhibits and displays,” Littlefield said.

Raffle tickets for two handcrafted pens made of wood from the USS Constitution and the Boston Garden’s parquet floor, donated by Stan and Andrea Littlefield Lucien of Maine Heritage Inc. in Old Town, will be on sale, and light refreshments will be served.

For more information, or to donate memorabilia and artifacts to the historical society, call Littlefield, 722-3633, or McLaughlin, at the Brooks town office, 722-3254.

The Healthy Living Expo & Forum is open to the public from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. (not 3 p.m. as I wrote in yesterday’s column) on Saturday, Oct. 1, at the Bangor Civic Center.

Alice Redmond wrote that members of Hampden Congregational Church will host their annual fall rummage sale from 4:30 to 7 p.m. today, and from 8 a.m. until noon Saturday, Oct. 1, at the church, 101 Main Road North in Hampden.

On behalf of the Bangor High School Music Boosters, Bruce and Lisa Rocher hope you will visit the group’s “Rain or Shine October Yard Sale” from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1, at 26 Balsam Drive in Bangor.

All proceeds will help support music programs and activities for Bangor High students.

Sandra Patterson, president of Veazie Senior Citizens Club, invites you to patronize its craft and bake sale, from 9 a.m. until everything is sold, Saturday, Oct. 1, at Marden’s on Wilson Street in Brewer.

The sale also features “knit goods,” Patterson wrote.

George Russell of Down East AIDS Network reminds you its annual AIDS awareness walk begins with registration at 9 a.m. and the three-mile family-friendly walk at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 1, at the Ellsworth Middle School Track.

If you do not already have a sponsor sheet, call Down East AIDS Network at 667-3506 or download one at http://www.downeastaidsnetwork.org.

For more information, call the number above or the Machias office at 255-5849.

Cindy Ault and Charlie Boothby invite you to meet “Mr. Potatohead” at the second Maine Potato Suppah to benefit Habitat for Humanity of Greater Bangor, 5-7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1, at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 120 Park St., Bangor.

Admission is $6 for adults and $4 for children under 12.

Your attendance at the “suppah,” which includes “all the fixin’s'” from salad to fresh Maine apple pie, will help Habitat for Humanity build its 11th house.

For tickets or more information, call Ault, 989-4547, or Boothby, through the Habitat for Humanity answering service, 942-8977.

The goal for the 15th annual Alzheimer’s Association Memory Walk 2005 is $315,000.

That fundraiser will be held Saturday, Oct. 1, at 15 sites in Maine, including Augusta-Waterville, Bangor, Bar Harbor, Lincoln, Rockland and Skowhegan.

To learn more about the walk in your area, call Jane Mullen, (800) 660-2871; e-mail jane.mullen@alz.org or visit www.mainealz.org.

President Michael Povich and the Ellsworth High School Alumni Association hope you participate in its second annual Walkin to School to support its scholarship endowment fund.

Also, half of all proceeds will be donated to any participating youth team or school-sponsored organization or activity.

Registration is at 8 a.m. and the walk at 9 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 2, at Ellsworth High School.

The five-mile walk, part of Autumn Gold Weekend, takes you past 15 Ellsworth school sites, and a two-mile extension passes three more.

Prizes, refreshments, T-shirts and more are all part of the event that raised $15,000 last year and brought the scholarship endowment fund to within $270,000 of its $1 million goal.

Registration forms are available at Ellsworth Area Chamber of Commerce, Ellsworth schools, some Ellsworth businesses, by calling 667-1112, faxing 667-3097, e-mailing ehsaa@yahoo.com and at www.ellsworthmaine.com/ehsalumni.

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