Island Home and Garden Tour - Casco Bay Maine

Island Home and Garden Tour

11-5 Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Discover Diamond Cove on Great Diamond Island, Maine. A private island community on the National Register of Historic Places and built on the site of what was Fort McKinley. View historic and custom waterfront homes along with private and common gardens.
This is a walking tour and not handicapped accessible. Lunch and dinner reservations are available at the General Store and Diamond’s Edge Restaurant. The tour will run from 11:00 to 5:00, rain or shine.

LIMITED TICKETS @ $20 PER PERSON and does not reflect transportation costs. Tickets available in person at: Greater Portland Landmarks, 93 High Street, Portland, Maine
• Skillins Greenhouse, Falmouth, Maine
• Broadway Gardens, South Portland, Maine
• Andy's Old Port and Pub, 94 Commercial Street, Portland Maine.
Contact Casco Bay Lines, Portland, Maine for ferry tickets and departure times to Diamond Cove.
Visit http://diamondcovetour.com/ for additional information about this tour or to buy tickets online.

Cost: $ 20.00

The last day for the Yarmouth Clam Festival

If you haven't visited the festival yet, today is your last chance! (Until next year, that is!)
View all of the un events going on today at: http://www.clamfestival.com/event/event_list.php?event_date=2010-07-18

Just some of the Clam Festival Highlights - TODAY

6:30 AM - 7:00 AM CLAM CLASSIC!


Yarmouth Clam Festival Canoe & Kayak Race

The race starts at Yarmouth Town Landing and goes down river, around Lanes Island, and up Cousins River to finish at the Muddy Rudder (approx. 6 miles).
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7:00 AM - 10:30 AM Blueberry Pancake Breakfast at Memorial Green.

Breakfast includes 2 golden pancakes, plain or blueberry, topped with real Cabot butter and maple syrup, a sausage patty, and your choice of two beverages (choose from juice, coffee, and milk) ($8).

Don't like pancakes? Order a breakfast sandwich ($3)!
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7:15 AM - 7:30 AM CLAM CLASSIC!

Clam Festival Kids' Fun Run - For children 3-12.  Starts and ends on Main Street at Memorial Green.

Streets Closed - The following streets will be closed from 6:30 to 9 AM for the Fun Run and the Pat's Pizza 5-Mile Classic:

Main St.
East Elm St.
School St.
Bridge St.
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8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CLAM CLASSIC!

30th Annual Pat's Pizza Clam Festival Classic: Five-Mile Road Race
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10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Trolley Tour of Historic Yarmouth The Yarmouth Historical Society offers an hour-long narrated tour of our historic town on "Trina" the trolley.
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10:30 AM - 12:30 PM Horse & Wagon Rides

Enjoy a free, gentle ride along Main Street in a Belgian-horse-drawn wagon owned by Dwayne and Becky Durgin of Meadow Creek Farm in Sumner.
Departing from Railroad (Village Green) Park or at the intersection of Main and Portland Streets.
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11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Port City Jazz at NYA. This dynamic septet plays standards from the Great American Songbook, a mix of music that will keep your feet tapping and make you want to dance. Learn more about the band at the Port City Jazz website.
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11:00 AM CLAM CLASSIC!
Maine State Clam Shucking Contest on the Library Lawn.

Come, watch — and compete! Prizes go to the fastest shuckers in professional, amateur, and college heats (college shuckers, remember to wear your school's colors)!

A "celebrity" heat sets the competitive edge, pitting teams of southern Maine's news, sports, and weather broadcasters against each other. These arch rival shuckers return every year to defend and reclaim their status as fastest clamcasters in the east, west, north, and south.

Yarmouth Clam Festival Parade - tonight!

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM CLAM CLASSIC!


Clam Festival Parade!
Streets Closed - The following streets will be closed from 5:30 to 7:30 PM for the parade:

Main St.

West Elm St.

McCartney St.

Portland St.

School St. (until 10 PM)

This year's theme, "Three Cheers for Champions — Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow", honors Herbie the 217-year-old Champion American Elm tree, who Yarmouth lost this year after a 50-year battle with Dutch elm disease, as well as Frank Knight, the man who championed Herbie's survival through those 50 years and 14 bouts of the killer disease.

Frank — now 101 years old! — will lead the parade as grand marshal, and float designs will celebrate champions of every kind — those who have inspired us in all aspects of life: sports, imagination, education, social action, the environment...DON'T MISS THIS PARADE — It'll be the best ever!

Bus Schedule May change - make your voice heard!

Falmouth Flyer - Proposed Route Change

The Town Council will hold a public hearing on proposed amendments to the Metro Bus Route 7 schedule on Monday, July 26 at 7:00 pm. The proposed schedule change would impact service to the Foreside and Ocean View Routes as demonstrated on the chart below. The public is encouraged to attend and participate. Call 781-5253, ext. 5335 for more information.

A VISIT TO POLAND SPRING

FALMOUTH COMMUNITY PROGRAMS OFFERS A VISIT TO POLAND SPRING


Explore the historic Maine State Building, built for the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and then dismantled and brought back to Maine via freight train and ox cart. You will spend time at the Nettie Ricker Art Gallery and All Souls Chapel. The trip will leave from the Village Park (behind Wal-Mart/adjacent to Family Ice) on Tuesday July 13th at 10 a.m. There will be a stop for lunch and the trip will end at 3 p.m.

LIBRARY SUNDAE Social

MARK YOUR CALENDAR NOW FOR LIBRARY SUNDAE


Friends of the Falmouth Memorial Library will hold an Ice Cream Social on July 11 from 1 to 4 p.m. There will be antique cars (some giving rides) maybe the Falmouth antique fire truck! There will be sundaes, Doc's Banjo Band, authors Richard and Nancy Fraser, valve cover racing and mush more. Don't miss this great family event. Tickets for rides and sundaes are $2.50. Everything else is free.

Help is needed to make this event a success. If you would like to help set up, take down, sell tickets, scoop ice cream, let the library know. Call 781-2351. They also needs help with creating posters and putting them up.

Tour the Chocolate Factory at Wilbur's of Maine

Tour the Chocolate Factory at Wilbur's of Maine!


11:00 am - 2:00 pm Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Tour the Chocolate Factory at Wilbur's of Maine Chocolate Confections. Visit chocolate production rooms & see what makes that piece of chocolate taste so good! Hear about the "life of the cocoa bean from tree to chocolate bar." Plenty of samples. Tour lasts about 30-45 minutes depending on size of tour group. Wilbur's of Maine Chocolate Confections, 174 Lower Main Street Freeport
Phone: (207) 865-4071
Cost: $3.50 per person

Happy July 4th!

The Star Spangled Banner

Oh, say, can you see,

by the dawn’s early light

What so proudly we hailed,

at the twilight’s last gleaming.

Whose broad stripes and bright stars,

through the perilous fight,

O're the ramparts we watched,

were so gallantly streaming.

And the rockets red glare,

the bombs bursting in air,

Gave proof through the night,

that our flag was still there.

Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave,

O’re the land of the free and the home of the brave

-by Francis Scott Key

Contra Dance

Contra Dance at the Falmouth Congregational Church, 269 Falmouth Road, Falmouth


7:15 p.m. Saturday, July 3, 2010

All dances taught, dessert potluck; partner not necessary! Rumblestrip band. Call 207-756-2201 FMI
Cost: $5 $10 free under 5