RANGELEY – In celebration of the Rangeley Lakes Region Logging Museum’s official opening of its new hiking trails, a new annual event, Trails & Sales Festival, which includes a variety of over 50 vendors, will be held at the Logging Museum grounds on Saturday, Aug. 23 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Vendors include fiber handiwork, local produce farms, woodworkers, crafters, etched glassware, jewelry, leather, baked goods, alpacas and sheep vendors, food concessions and more.
Saddleview Horse Farm will be available from 9 a.m. to noon for children to enjoy a horse ride (adult will walk and lead horse), children can meet and pat alpacas from Shadow Hill Farm located in New Gloucester and sheep from Shepard’s Rugs at Good Tyddyn Farm located in Freeman Township and more!
An array of vendor highlights include Jay’s Crafts from Dixmont, with his hand-designed wooden décor along with his wife Ann that creates quilted fiber décor. If you’re looking for an alternative to wool, look no more as Shadow Hill Farm has an array of alpaca yarn, rugs, socks, boot felts and adorable alpaca bears.
Blueberry Hill Farm of Dallas Plantation will have local, fresh veggies and blueberries available; nothing better than local, fresh produce! Local favorite, Rangeley Balsam will provide you with an array of balsam-based products so that when you return back home, the scent of the Rangeley area will keep you content until next season! Walt’s Woodwork from Livermore Falls provides quite a variety of hand-designed wooden crafts such as coat racks, potato bins, step stools & bird feeders.
Billdad Bath of Stratton, will showcase an array of natural, vegetable-based soaps for the environmental and health seeker. Etched glassware by Sue from Manchester, NH & Rangeley has some gorgeous stemware and every day glasses for your drinking pleasure. And, Marston Country Crafts of Wilton creates beautiful, hand-designed, wooden items made from exotic and local wood – be sure to check out the tiger maple selection.
Entertainment includes live country music with Gary and Lois Hall and friends, vendor demonstrations, chainsaw carving demonstrations by the every-so-talented team of John and Nancy Arsenault of Always Carving from Rumford, petting areas with alpacas & sheep, horse rides for the children and the Logging Museum and its trails will be open throughout the day!
Proceeds from this festival will assist the Logging Museum with its building improvements and this season’s building projects fund.
There is still space available for last minute vendors who wish to participate in this event. Contact the Logging Museum at 864-3939 from 11 to 5 p.m. or download the vendor registration form under our “calendar of events” section. For further information, please visit our website at www.rlrlm.org or contact the museum at 864-3939.
