RANGELEY — The Church of the Good Shepherd will host the Rangeley Lakes Region Logging Museum’s 21st annual Apple Harvest Festival on Saturday, Oct. 4.
With Rangeley and Oquossoc’s businesses Oktoberfest list of event running Friday through Sunday, there will be something for everyone.
From 9 to 10:30 a.m. Saturday, the Apple Harvest Festival’s breakfast will include a variety of homemade breakfast casseroles. Beginning at 11 a.m., homemade beef stew and vegetarian butternut squash/parsnip soup, biscuit or cornbread will be served. Hot dog or tofu dog luncheon plates will also be available. Dessert will be hot apple crisp with whipped cream. Take-out will be available.
Children will be able to decorate pumpkins at the Children’s Pumpkin Activity Center. Then, they can head to the Western Maine Children’s Play Museum’s booth for a fun-filled activity. Kids will be “adorned” with a smock, handed a paintbrush and paint. From that point on, their artistic creativity will flow onto an eight-foot, double-sided, Plexiglas mural structure.
The Logging Museum’s Moose will greet visitors and be available for photos throughout the day.
The baked foods table will be loaded with homemade goods, to include gluten-free, sugar-free goodies, pies, fudge, muffins, breads, cakes, cookies, bars, brownies and more, with 100 percent of proceeds to benefit the Logging Museum.
The Logging Museum’s raffle will include a “Zodi” instant hot shower, women’s camouflage pink hoodie and stove to go; two-day ski passes; photo, “Sunset Over Mooselookmeguntic Lake”; a cardinal quilt and autumn leaves quilt; apple harvest wooden hod; “two owls on tree stump” carving; and two thermos hot/cold bottles.
There will be fresh pressed apple cider and over 30 vendors will provide an array of items.
Retired logger, Jeep Wilcox, will be on hand to autograph copies of “Working the Woods” from the Logging Museum’s indoor booth. The museum will host “An Evening With Jeep Wilcox – Storyteller & Poet” on Thursday, Oct. 2.
The museum will be open through Sunday, Oct. 12. For more information, visit www.rlrlm.org.
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- Join Christopher in pumpkin decorating at the Rangeley Logging Museum’s 21st annual Apple Festival from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4, at the Church of Good Shepherd, 2614 Main St. Breakfast casseroles with home fries will be served from 9 to 10:30 a.m. and a beef stew or butternut squash/parsnip soup luncheon from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Take-out will be available. There will be children’s pumpkin decorating, mural painting, spooky witch fun and a Mr. Moose visit. There will also be logging displays, apple pressing, raffle, bake sale and more than 35 vendors. For more information, call 864-3939 or visit www.rlrlm.org.
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