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In the nineteenth century, Americans ate and cooked differently than we do today. They stored food without refrigerators or cabinets. Learn how they did it during this special talk and tour,…

Boothbay Harbor Festival fans love that every event is totally unique and different than other events…

Blistered Fingers Bluegrass Festival is celebrating its 53rd festival at the Litchfield Fairgrounds, 30 Plains Road. Gates open at 8 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 18. Weekend tickets for each festival will…

If it’s September, it must be time for the annual Lobstermen’s Relief Fund Benefit, hosted by Cook’s Lobster & Ale House on Bailey Island! The…

DECEMBER

1 - Southport Lights Up! - At the Southport General…

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1-23 – ARTinME - Annual juried…


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2 - Rhiannon Giddens Trio - 7:30 p.m., Opera House at…

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Lincoln Arts Festival
Jess Wrobel

Summer in Maine is prime time for art shows, exhibitions, and spending time on the water – among so many other activities and pastimes. At Lincoln Arts Festival’s annual Arts & Yachts…

Kate Nordstrom

Mid-August is a lush moment in the garden season and Carriage House Gardens in Wiscasset invites the public to an open house to celebrate the blooms and the equally colorful paintings of Alna…

Local Flavors Summer Series
Susan Bartlett Rice

Cheney Financial Group is hosting the second of three fun summer events Thursday, Aug. 15, from 4:30-6 p.m. The events support and showcase local artists, local musicians, local food, local brews…

Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce


The Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce announces a Business After Hours and ribbon cutting at the Sheepscot River Shore House, located at 61 Water Street, Wiscasset, Aug. 20 from 5:30 to 7 p…

Cruise on into our annual vintage car show Tuesday, Aug. 13, at 6 p.m. (no rain date). Enjoy conversations with the car owners, live music by the Rusty Hinges, and free orange or root beer floats…

Flare Night at Popham Beach will take place on Friday, Aug. 16, and the annual parade will begin at 7 p.m. at the Ft. Baldwin parking lot and progress through the village, ending at Ft. Popham.…

Spend a bucolic evening on the shores of the Sheepscot River in Alna, sipping Champagne and enjoying hors d’oeuvres while a Lincoln Academy student jazz combo provides the soundtrack at Champagne…

Gleason Fine Art

Friday afternoon, Aug. 2,  artist Henry Isaacs  and arts writer/historian Dan Kany entertained an overflow audience at Gleason Fine Art, 31 Townsend Avenue in Boothbay Harbor.

The subject…

Salt Bay Chamberfest’s 25th season
Flutist and MacArthur Genius fellow Claire Chase

Now in the second week of its 25th annual summer musical festival, Salt Bay Chamberfest is this year presenting five evening concerts at Darrows Barn—one more than in past seasons. The season also…

The Lincoln Home
The Sandy River Ramblers
Join us at The Lincoln Home in Newcastle on Saturday, Aug. 17 at 4 p.m. for the fourth annual Lobster and More event.
 
The evening’s festivities feature Maine…

Chase Point Assisted Living and Schooner Cove Retirement Community in Damariscotta will host its sixth annual Antique Car Show and Elvis Extravaganza on Tuesday, Aug. 13, beginning at 5 p.m. at 51…

Cheney Financial Group is hosting the second of three fun summer events Thursday, Aug. 15, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. The events support and showcase local artists, local musicians, local food, local…

Woolwich Community Day is Saturday, Aug. 3 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the municipal complex off Route 1.

The Nequasset Paddle is at 10 a.m.; 11a.m. to 1 p.m., $1 hamburgers and 50 cent hot…

Spectrum Generations continues its weekly Lunch & Learn offerings throughout the month of August.

On Wednesday, Aug. 7, Casey Stevens and Melissa Temple, director and deputy director (…

The Lincoln County Democratic Committee’s Annual Family Fun Day Lobster Bake will take place on Sunday, Aug. 11, noon to 3 p.m., at Cider Hill Farm, 785 West Main St., Waldoboro.

There…

On Monday, Aug. 12, chefs from central and Midcoast Maine will compete in the seventh annual Celebrity Chef Challenge. This year’s event will be held at Spectrum Generations’ Cohen Community…

The Novel Jazz Septet will be in concert at the Little Brown Church in Round Pond  Aug. 7 at 7:30 p.m.  featuring music of the iconic Duke Ellington and his equally iconic musical collaborator,…

The Lincoln Home is hosting its fourth annual Lobster and More! event Saturday, Aug. 17, at 4 p.m. Dine on delicious Maine lobsters, mouth-watering barbecue chicken, and Maine blueberry desserts…

On Wednesday, July 31, the Sandy River Ramblers will bring their energetic Maine-themed Bluegrass show to the Little Brown Church, Rte. 32, in Round Pond. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m.…

Sunday, July 21 was a sizzler, but guests at Lincoln County Historical Association’s (LCHA) annual Kermess gala were treated to gentle breezes from the Kennebec River. The annual dinner and…
Lynne Seitzer
“Most art begins with a desire to communicate an idea or an image. Along the way there must be room for experimentation. This ‘allowing’ is where a painting can become energized. Pausing…

The wandering spotlight will be lighting up Damariscotta as it moves from Lincoln Theater to the streets around it as movie fans begin arriving for the first MidCoast Film Festival. The excitement…

What are the benefits of downsizing to Assisted Living?  Am I ready? When does short-term stays/respite care at the Lincoln Home make sense?

The Lincoln Home is hosting a free “Residents…

First Congregational Church of Wiscasset

On Saturday, July 27, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the Wiscasset Common will come alive with First Congregational Church’s Summerfest. Music by a ragtime band and the Clarinotes will fill the air.…

Wiscasset Art Walk

 Wiscasset Village galleries are hung with stunning art. The boutique shops are stocked with carefully chosen items for home and self. Restaurants and specialty food shops beckon with tasty…

The Pemaquid Oyster Festival, coming on Sunday, Sept. 29 from noon to dusk, will be dedicated to the memory of Charlie Herrick, who helped found the event in 2001, and dedicated himself to its…

Karl’s Kids will host a dance party as its first Lincoln County fundraiser on Friday, July 26 at the Lakeside Barn in Duck Puddle Campground in Nobleboro. Local dance instructor, Steve Hand, will…

Come join us at the Morris Farm on Sunday, July 28 at the Morris Farm as we celebrate Maine Crafters! Bring held in conjunction with Open Farm Day, craftspeople will be set up in the historic barn…

Plans are underway for the sixth annual Bands for Books. It’s held in September to raise money for Wiscasset Public Library. Friends of the Library is organizing the event for Sept. 2, Labor Day,…

Elisabeth Ladwig, an award-winning photographic artist whose current work has appeared on magazine covers and gallery walls from Arizona to Rome; and her digital displays in Times Square and at…

The Weight Band

The Weight Band, featuring members of The Band and the Levon Helm Band, will appear on the Strand Theatre stage on Friday, Aug. 9 at 7:30 p.m.

The Weight Band…

Registrations have been coming in for the sixth annual Olde Bristol Days Vintage Car Show. The growing event, to be held on Saturday, Aug. 10 from 11 a.m to 3 p.m. at the Harbor Room restaurant on…

Please join Juniper Hill School and internationally renowned mezzo-soprano, Kate Aldrich, for a concert on the school’s newly constructed open-air stage overlooking the Sheepscot River Valley on…

The Kennebec Early Music Festival will be held Aug. 11-18  in the Long Reach Hall, Maine Maritime Museum, 243 Washington St., Bath, and the intimate Linden Tree Meeting House, 10…

The Kennebec Estuary Land Trust (KELT) invites the public to get creative and craft homemade journals. Join Maine Master Naturalist volunteer and book artist, Jill Osgood, on Saturday, July 13 at…

Alden Robinson

The Little Brown Church in Round Pond will feature a concert by fiddler Alden Robinson and Miles Isacke on banjo and guitar on Wednesday, July 17 at 7:30 p.m. These two fixtures of the Portland…

Where It’s At

Don’t you just love Elmore James? “The Sky Is Crying” is a personal fave ...  “The sky is crying, look at the tears roll down the street The sky is crying, look at the tears roll down the…

Head for Savage Oaks Vineyard & Winery, 175 Barrett Hill Rd. in Union, on Saturday, July 27 for a 7 p.m. concert featuring Amos Lee with special guest – BAILEN - rain or shine…

Maine International Film Festival

The 22nd annual Maine International Film Festival, held in Waterville, Maine July 12-21, will honor director Hilary Brougher with a screening of her new film, “South Mountain,” followed by a Mid-…

Join the party at Brew with a View, Historic New England’s fundraiser for Wiscasset’s own Castle Tucker on July 11 from 5-7:30 p.m. Enjoy a summer evening of local beer and spectacular river views…

Cheney Financial Group is hosting three fun summer events to support and showcase local artists, local musicians, local food, brews and wine.

The first event will be held Thursday, July 11…

Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts invites visitors to their 54-acre campus for the 25th annual Salad Days, a celebration of local food and handcrafted ceramics. This art-and-craft-filled…