All invited to ‘Summer Day’ at Leonard’s Mills

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Residents and visitors alike are in for another special treat when they visit the Maine Forest and Logging Museum on “A Busy Summer Day” from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 14, at Leonard’s Mills, which is located off Route 178 in Bradley.

Admission is $7 for adults, $2 for children and free for MFLM members.

MFLM executive director Cathy Goslin reports, “Re-enactors, crafters, demonstrators, cooks and horses come to visit and enjoy a day from the late 1790s and early 1800s.”

You can ride in a bateau or a horse-drawn wagon, sample bean-hole beans, enjoy strawberry shortcakes and reflector-oven biscuits. For “more modern tastes,” Goslin wrote, a hot dog stand will be available.

Visitors will “learn skills kept alive by blacksmiths, a potter, a rug hooker, shake-splitters and more,” Goslin wrote.

Returning with his annual seconds’ sale is Ken Henderson of Henderson’s Redware, featuring reproduction pottery. Henderson “trained at Sturbridge Village and brings a wealth of skill and knowledge” to MFLM events, Goslin noted.

Searsport Rug Hooking is making an initial appearance at this event; and encampments portraying “life as folks experienced it when moving to the area” will feature the Matthew and Sherry Davis family of Deer Isle, “living in a period-appropriate tent and cooking over an open fire,” Goslin wrote.

The couple has “researched activities, clothing and foods consistent” with the era they will be re-enacting, Goslin added.

Paul Carlson, Keith Richards Sr., and Donald Babcock will be working in the blacksmith shop “forging hooks, tools or making repairs.”

For more information, call MFLM at 581-2871.

Members of the Bangor Nature Club invite the public to a free lecture, “Can Global Warming Be Affecting Our Birds,” at 7 p.m. Saturday, July 14, at Ecotat Gardens and Arboretum, 2699 Route 2 in Hermon.

The featured speaker is Dr. Jeff Wells, senior scientist for the Boreal Songbird Initiative, according to a BNC release.

Wells, who works out of Hallowell, is completing a book titled “Birder’s Conservation Handbook, Maine: 100 North American Birds at Risk,” which will be published by Princeton University Press this fall.

The former conservation ornithologist with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, N.Y., he also worked “with the National Audubon Society, first as bird conservation director of the New York State office, then as the national director of bird conservation,” the release states.

The Cornell University and Bangor High School graduate is also a former member of the BNC.

For more information about the BNC or this presentation call 990-3665.

A great indicator that there is plenty of interest in the coming Bangor Garden Tour, also known as the Zonta Club of Bangor Annual Garden Tour, is that I’ve had a surprising number of requests to rerun the information I published in Monday’s column about this event.

So, here is tour co-chairwoman Debbie Paton, once again, inviting you to Zonta’s Annual Garden Tour, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday, July 15, at five Bangor-area gardens and one garden in Exeter.

Sponsored by Sprague’s Nursery, tickets are $15 and can be obtained in Bangor at Sprague’s, 1664 Union St.; Johnson Florist and Gifts in the Airport Mall; and Garden Cafe and D’Lor Beauty Salon, both located in Maliseet Gardens on Exchange Street.

Tickets also will be available the day of the tour at Sprague’s.

For more information, call Marcia Bean at 285-3636, or e-mail msbean1990@aol.com.

Garden Tour proceeds fund Zonta scholarships and contributions to local nonprofit organizations.

Space is limited for participants in the Woodlawn Museum Wooden Window Workshop 9 a.m.-noon Saturday, July 21, at Woodlawn on Route 172 in Ellsworth, so you should make your reservations now.

The cost of the hands-on workshop is $20, or $15 for museum members, and includes refreshments.

Call 6677-8671 or visit www.woodlawnmuseum.org for more information.

The workshop will be presented by Todd Devenish of Wooden Window Restoration, reports Woodlawn executive director Josh Torrance, and is “made possible by a grant from the Lowe’s Charitable and Educational Foundation Preservation Fund and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.”

Now is the time to sign up, either as a swimmer or as a volunteer, for the seventh annual Beach to Beach Swim for Breast Cancer to benefit Caring Connections.

The event is 7 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 5, at Jenkins Beach on Green Lake in Dedham.

For more information, call Robin Long or Ro Legasse at the Bangor Y, 941-2808.

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