Maine Native American Summer Market and Demonstration

The fourth annual Maine Native American Summer Market and Demonstration will take place from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 25. It is a unique blending of two of Maine’s most unique and continuing traditions – that of the Maine Shakers and Maine’s four Native American tribes. The 20 featured artists are among the finest and most renowned Penobscot, Maliseet, Micmac and Passamaquoddy artisans.

This gathering at Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, Route 26, New Gloucester, represents decades of tradition, and includes master basket makers, apprentices and multiple generations of family members. There will be hand-woven ash-splint and sweet-grass baskets, traditional etched birch bark vessels, stone sculptures, woodcarvings, cedar flutes, and jewelry for sale, as well as demonstrations and traditional storytelling. New to the event this year will be Native Drumming of the Burnurwurbskek Singers & Wabanaki Dancing by the Sipayik Dance Troupe.

Admission and parking are free. The event is funded by the Maine Community Foundation and the Maine Arts Commission. Call 926-4597 for more information.

Kindling Stone concert

By popular demand, Nashville folk artists Kindling Stone will be making a return visit to Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, 7 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 18. Vocalist Charlotte Avant, instrumentalists/vocalists Mark Wingate, and Chris Moore will entertain in the 1794 Shaker Meetinghouse with a wide variety of musical styles and original compositions. Reservations are required. The admission cost is $10 for adults; $5 for children, kids under 6 admitted free. For reservations, call 926-4597 or email usshakers@aol.com.

Crafts demonstration

R&R Spinners, a welcoming group of spinners who are happy to have you watch and ask questions about their craft, will be demonstrating their techniques on Saturday, Aug. 18, starting at 10 a.m. at Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, Route 26, New Gloucester. The event is free and open to the public.

Family farmyard fun at Pineland

Try your hand at milking a cow while touring the dairy barns to learn about Holsteins at “Udderly Amazing Cows” on Tuesday, Aug. 14. Meet David Sparks of Sparks’ Ark and the array of wild animals he rehabilitates, Wednesday, Aug. 15. Meet the farmyard critters up close by feeding the pigs, goats, ducks and cows, and collecting eggs from the chickens on Wednesday, Aug. 22.

All programs run from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at the Smokehouse on the Valley Farm. Please arrive 15 minutes early to allow time to buy tickets and get to your program. The cost is $5 per person, and tickets can be purchased at The Market and Welcome Center, 15 Farm View Drive (off Morse Road), New Gloucester. For more information or to register, contact Paula at 688-4800 ext. 15 or pletiecq@pinelandfarms.org.

School shopping for homeless teens

The Board of Missions of the New Gloucester First Congregational Church is sponsoring an effort to collect school-related products for homeless teens of the Greater Lewiston area. Items most needed include backpacks, gift cards to area retail stores, loose-leaf binders and paper, spiral notebooks, highlighters, book cover material, pencils, pens, rulers, markers, colored pencils, tissues and small containers of hand sanitizers.

While you’re out shopping, simply purchase some of the above items and place them in the “school” box outside of the sanctuary from now until mid-September.

Library play and

end of summer reading program

Come and join Whoo the Owl and his family at the end of the summer reading program celebration to be held at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 21, at the New Gloucester Public Library, 379 Intervale Road. This year’s featured play will be “The Incredible Invention of Dr. Whoo,” featuring Whoo and Fox. Additionally, awards will be presented to summer reading program participants in recognition of all of their hard work. A big surprise will cap off the evening. The public is welcome to attend. For more information, call the library at 926-4840.

New Show on NGTV Channel 3

Concert pianist Virginia Eskin of Boston, Mass., gave a lecture/demonstration of the works of several 20th century women composers, in conjunction with the Portland String Quartet, as part of the Maine Festival of American Music at Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in late June. NGTV volunteers recorded and edited the program, and it is being telecast on local access channel 3 at 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. each day of this weekend. The program can be viewed by New Gloucester and Gray cable television subscribers, as well as by video streaming at www.newgloucester.com.

NG B2B Runners

Congratulations to the 47 runners from New Gloucester who finished the TD Beach to Beacon 10K Road Race course, Aug. 4. The throng was led by 15-year-old Eric Wilcox, of Team Intervale Farm, who finished 301st out of 6,107 finishers.

Kids cringe as Fredi Walsh of the Gray-New Gloucester Animal Hospital holds a jar of tapeworms for their inspection. Walsh was the guest speaker at the New Gloucester Public Library’s annual Pet Show organized by assistant librarian Carla McAllister, July 24. (Photo by Patti Mikkelsen)