Festivals and Events

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Logging Festival Days, our major program, brings many activities to the region on the last weekend in July: a Friday afternoon burying of beanhole beans, logging camp style; a Friday evening program of music, entertainment, and a Loggers' Hall of Fame; and a Saturday morning parade of floats, bands, and logging equipment. Saturday afternoon is filled with more music, a woodsmen's competition with chain sawing, pulp piling, axe throwing, and the best beanhole bean dinner in Maine.

Forest Program, Apple Festival

In August, we host a program that features issues concerning the Maine forest; speakers from the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests and Maine Forest Alliance, for example, have come for evenings of provocative conversation. The Apple Festival during the first weekend in October closes our year.

Educational Programs

We also sponsor several programs that both educate the public, celebrate the heritage of the timber woods, and raise money for daily expenses and new exhibits. In July we feature a Knit and Crochet Show and Sale to highlight our logging and knitting exhibit. Featuring the artistry of Maine fiber artists, the show also introduces visitors to stories such as woodsman Tiger White's tale of how his logging mittens kept him from drowning during an afternoon's ice skating.

For more information, please call the Museum on weekends in the summer at (207) 864-3939 or call our President, Rodney Richard, at home (207) 864-5595.

Margaret (Peggy) Yocom, Museum Folklorist, may be contacted via e-mail at myocom@osf1.gmu.edu