Looking for something different in your dancing? Mary Blackstone and members of Downeast Dance Club suggest you learn some “new ballroom and Latin dance steps” in a dance camp weekend, 1-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, July 19-20, at the Blue Hill Consolidated School.

Lessons are $10 an hour, and you may call Blackstone at 667-8878 for information and advance registration.

You have your choice of up to nine lessons during the two days, ranging from “sizzling-hot Latin dances” to international jive and ballroom, Blackstone wrote.

The instructor is Michael Milette, owner of Milette’s Dance Class in Regina, Saskatchewan.

A free quickstep lesson will be offered at 7 p.m. July 19, before an 8 p.m. dance organized by the Downeast Dance Club.

The dance weekend will “end with a practice dance” from 5 to 7 p.m. July 20, Blackstone wrote.

After the success of last year’s “Old” Dover tour, Carmen Smith hopes people will enjoy a historic bus tour of “Old” Foxcroft, 10 a.m.-noon Saturday, July 19, in Dover-Foxcroft.

Sponsored by the Dover-Foxcroft Historical Society and led by Lou Stevens, the tour starts and ends at the Congregational church parking lot.

Tickets are $5 and seating is limited. Tickets may be obtained by calling 564-0820 or 564-3576.

Lincoln Memorial Library will hold a book sale 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, July 19, in Dennysville, to raise funds for new books.

For more information, call library association president Colin Windhorst, 726-3905.

Barbara Kelly invites you to the 50th Jubilee Down East Fair at 9 a.m. Saturday July 19, at Church of Our Father on Route 3 in Hulls Cove.

“This is a fun-packed day for the whole family, with great Down East food, a children’s midway, many booths, a clothing boutique, crafts and entertainment, with a bean supper at 5 p.m. and the Gala Auction at 6 p.m.,” she wrote.

Former Brewer and current Penobscot resident, professional jazz singer, recording artist and University of Maine alumna Diane Linscott has organized a benefit concert in memory of former band member and UMaine music major Jim Howe, who died last fall.

The concert is 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 19, in Minsky Recital Hall, Class of 1944 Hall at the university in Orono.

Admission is free, but guests may donate to the Jim Howe ’69 Memorial Scholarship Fund, which Linscott established in his memory to benefit future UMaine music students.

Linscott and members of her quartet will perform jazz standards and selections from her recently released CD, “Once Upon a Summertime,” on which Howe played bass.

Gifts in his memory can be sent to the University of Maine Foundation, Two Alumni Place, Orono 04469-5792, or by clicking Online Giving at www.umainefoundation.org, designating the donation for the Howe Fund.

Curran Homestead will hold its annual Olde Fashioned Country Fair, beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 19, at Fields Pond in Orrington.

I am pleased to be included in the festivities and will enjoy joining attendees for the tasty barbecue by Tim St. Louis, and listening to Jerry Hughes and The Late Edition.

You can watch a working blacksmith, enjoy Model T car and wagon rides, tour the farm gardens, meet the animals and scavenger hunt.

The next day, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, July 20, Curran Homestead will participate in Open Farm Day.

Paula Kee invites you to a benefit concert, A Grand Affair, at 7 p.m. Saturday, July 19, at The Grand in Ellsworth.

The concert will feature “an evening of songs from the stage performed by area actors and actresses,” Kee wrote. Donations will be taken at the door and “light refreshments and spirits” will be available.

For more information, visit www.grandonline.org.

Geneva Frost reports a yard sale benefiting the Otis Habit House for the family of 10-year-old Nicholas Hovey, is 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, July 19, at Beech Hill Storage on Route 180, in Otis. Nicholas has cystic fibrosis.

The rain date is Sunday, July 20.

Sandy Phippen wrote the Hancock Historical Society will hold a free open house, 2-4 p.m. Saturday, July 19, at the old South Hancock-Hancock Point School on Hancock Point Road.

The property, owned by Richard and Patty Moll, has been well-maintained and improved. Former students, and Elizabeth Tibbetts, who taught at the school in 1937-38, will attend.

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