Belfast Maskers reports that former Belfast resident and New York City area actor, singer and model Brian Thomas Wilson will play the lead in its summer production of “Carousel.”

A cast of 32, with local and visiting actors, will perform this Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical at 7 p.m. on 10 consecutive evenings beginning Thursday, July 24, and continuing through Saturday, Aug. 2, at Steamboat Landing on the Belfast Waterfront.

Tickets are $20 for adults, $10 for teens and $5 for children under 12, and are available at Fertile Mind Book Shop, 43 Front St., Belfast, or by calling 338-9668.

Parking is available at the Maskers’ parking lot, 43 Front St., and a shuttle is available.

The performance will take place in a re-created 1880s carnival-like setting, weather permitting.

Show attendees are encouraged to bring a picnic or purchase dinner from carnival vendors who will offer chowder, hot dogs, popcorn and cotton candy.

While your attention is focused on Belfast, Nan Cobbey can take this opportunity to remind you the next Belfast Garden Club Open Garden Day is from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, July 25, at the garden of Gail Savitz, 72 Broadway in Northport.

The suggested donation is $3. A list of all Belfast Garden Club Open Garden Days, held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays through Sept. 19, is available at local businesses, at www.belfast

gardenclub.org, or inside the birdhouse at Post Office Square in Belfast.

This week’s garden is free-form and features perennials, a cutting garden and fruit trees.

Kevin Gregory is chairman of the Millinocket Historical Society Dinner-Auction, which begins with the spaghetti dinner 4-6 p.m. Wednesday, July 23, at the Millinocket Elks Lodge on Aroostook Avenue.

“The auction will follow at 6 p.m., or thereabouts,” Gregory wrote.

However, he added, you can view items online at millinockethistoricalsociety.com and make absentee bids.

Gregory said people who want to place a bid should list the item and their maximum bid and e-mail it to gregorykj@verizon.net, or call him at 723-5178.

Proceeds from this event, he wrote, will help purchase the building that will house the future Millinocket Historical Society museum.

For information about this event or the work of the historical society, e-mail or call Gregory at the address and number above.

Earlier this month, a fire of undetermined origin destroyed a Patten apartment house, displacing seven families.

Margaret Merry offers “a huge thank you to all the people in Patten and surrounding towns for all the support” and financial assistance “since we lost our homes to fire.”

“Thank you from the folks that once resided at 16 Main Street.”

The next event in the Old Town Public Library Summer Concerts in the Park series features 13-year-old Melanie Dorice Saucier of Fort Kent at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 23, at Old Town Riverfront Park. If it rains, the concert will take place in the Old Town High School cafetorium.

The Old Town Public Library reports the young singer appears “by special request” and she “will share her special repertoire of songs sung in English, French and Latin.”

Leigh Butler, Kris Whitney and members of the Bangor Art Society encourage and invite artists “of all ages and experience” to participate in the society’s inaugural Paint Bangor Day, beginning with the registration of artists from 8 to 10 a.m. Saturday, July 26, at The Bennett Gallery, 34 Central St., Bangor.

Artists have until 3:30 p.m. that day to complete a painting of their favorite Bangor scene and bring it to the gallery for a Silent Auction and Reception, which will run from 5 to 7 p.m.

Half the auction price from each work will help the Bangor Art Society fund annual programs, and the other half will go to the artist.

First-, second- and third-place prizes will be awarded to the works receiving the most votes from auction attendees.

For information, call Whitney at 942-3868 or e-mail Kristborg@aol.com or call Butler at 990-5783 or e-mail leigh

butler@midmaine.com.

Esther Mayhew resides at Roe Village in Hampden, where residents enjoy doing crafts.

She is seeking any kind of cards and also “some dolls, with hair,” that the crafters can use in their work.

If you can help, you can send your donations to her at Apt. 42, 113 Western Ave., Hampden 04444 or call her at 862-3327.

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