Community Events

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Contact us with  details of your event, and we will be glad to include it.  By having your event listed here, you will give others a chance to plan ahead so that they can participate.  This also makes it easier for clubs and groups to co-ordinate events, to avoid possible conflicts that could affect the success of your event.

It is never too soon to let us know what you have planned. If you have events scheduled for six to 12 months in advance, let us know.  The sooner we are aware of your event, the sooner we can share the information with various media outlets.  Some publications require we have events forwarded to them 60-90 days in advance.  Obviously there are times when all you know about a certain event that is many weeks away is the date and location.  You can give us the basics now, and further details as they become available to you.

Now through May 24 Seeds of Creativity Student Art Show

The Blue Moon Gallery is proud to announce the 4th Annual Seeds of Creativity Student Art Show. Young people from classrooms throughout Southern Aroostook County are strutting their visual artistic talents in the Southern Aroostook Cultural Arts Project's gallery. Their artwork will be on display at the Blue Moon Gallery in Visions from April 4th through May 24th.  The Blue Moon Gallery is located in Visions at 66 Main Street in downtown Houlton.   Hours are: Tues-Fri 12-5, and Sat 10-2.

This show is a continuation of the Southern Aroostook Cultural Arts Project's efforts to encourage artistic expression and appreciation in our community

May 27, 2008  25th Annual Fiddlehead Public Supper

Tuesday May 27th 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm at the Church of the Good Shepherd on Main St., Houlton.   There will be fiddleheads, potato salad, ham, rolls, cake, coffee and tea.
$7 for adults, $3.50 for children. All you can eat
Fiddlehead Quiche will be for sale for $10 a piece.

June 20, 2008  SOAPBOX DERBY Trial Run Day

June 21, 2008  SOAPBOX DERBY  Race Day   website

Race begins at 8:00 am

Stock Division ages 8 - 13
Stock cars can accommodate a racer up to approx. 5"3" tall and 125 lb
Total weight of car & driver on race day is 200 lbs

Super Stock Division
Super Stock is designed for racers ages 10 - 17
Super Stock cars can accommodate a racer up to approx. 6'0" tall and 150 lbs.
Total weight of car & driver on race day is 230 lbs.

Masters Division
Masters Division ages 10 -17 and is driven by a more experienced driver.
Masters car can accommodate a racer up to 6"0" tall and 160 lbs.
Total weight for this car & driver is 255 lbs.
mailto:rec.program@houlton-maine.com
CONTACT: rec.program@houlton-maine.com or
call Daniel Emerson at 532-6591
Racers must be 8 years old by June 21, 2008
Registration Deadline is MAY 1!
Registration Fee is $30 per racer.

July 24 - 26   Bridgewater Sesquicentennial Celebration

Quilt Display Planned for Sesquicentennial Celebration

A display of quilts and quilted items is being planned as part of Bridgewater’s July 24 through 26, 2008, Sesquicentennial celebration. 
The event, “Quilts Old & New” will be held on Saturday, July 26, at the Bridgewater Free Baptist Church from 9 AM to 4 PM. Everyone in the area is invited to provide new or vintage quilts, wall hangings, quilted apparel and quilted bags for the show. The Quilt Show Committee wants to create a display that is rich in history and, to that end, requests that all items submitted for display, especially vintage quilts that have been passed down in a family, include as much as is known of the item’s history. 
The Quilt Show Committee invites your participation in the planning. The next meeting is scheduled for April 12 at 11 AM at the Bridgewater Free Baptist Church. Additionally, the Committee hopes that the event will result in a group of people who are interested in meeting on a monthly basis to encourage and support both new and experienced quilters. For more information or to get involved, please call Reta Hersey at 425-4492. 

Info about the Trade Show is here.

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Houlton enters it’s third century valuing the past while planning for the future. When the first settlers, Joseph Houlton and John Putnam, began their settlement near the Meduxnekeag River, they could have no idea of what would become a thriving town; a town that in the early 1900’s could boast  of having more millionaires per capita than anywhere in the country. Built on the forestry, potato and rail industries, Houlton was and is an important northern Maine community and the Shiretown (County Seat) for Aroostook County.

Today the community, with it’s beautiful Victorian homes, the Boy with the Leaking Boot Fountain Statue and the unique Registered Historic Market Square District (built 1885-1910), is undergoing a renaissance. People are moving back to Houlton because of it’s quality of life and being a great place to raise children. Older people are returning to Houlton, attracted by the relative simplicity and peace of the area. People “from away” have discovered that Houlton is a gem, waiting to be discovered and enjoyed.

Discover Houlton! Share in the special Bicentennial celebration activities with us. Join in the festivities, enjoy the “small town USA” atmosphere and see rural Maine-the way life should be! Discover Houlton!

BICENTENNIAL EVENTS - (We've left these posted for those who wanted to see what they missed.)