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Five Festivals and (Af)fairs to Remember |
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by Brandon Carter
Coastal Journal staff
Summer in Maine means festivals and fairs for the towns that don’t see a whole lot of action when the sun goes down any other time of year. You know about Heritage Days and the Bowdoin International Music Festival. Here are five more downright impressive events coming up:
The Greek Heritage Festival
Jul 11 - 13, Saco
The beautiful grounds of the recently constructed Byzantine style St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church on Bradley Street in Saco is the site, and with authentic homemade Greek food and pastries, a live Greek band with a sweet name (The Hellenic & Near East Musical Society Ensemble), narrated church tours and Greek culture lectures, Loukoumathes (Greek fried dough), and Baklava ice cream sundaes, what could be wrong?
The Moxie Festival
Jul 11 - 13, Lisbon Falls
If Saco is a little out of the way, the Lisbon loyalists will supply enough fanatacism to make it worth your while. Though not the most exciting or adventurous of the Maine festivals, the “Moxie Chuggin’ Challenge” is such an admirable display of wrongheaded bravery, it has to be seen to be believed. And if you haven’t tried the infamous soft-drink yet, here’s you chance. Tourists, beware!
The 11th Annual Maine International Film Festival
July 11 - 20, Waterville
10 days, 100 films, 50 filmmakers. Some of the best work cinema has to offer curiously finds its way to Waterville every year thanks to this, the Maine Film Center’s project. This year is sure to deliver much of the same, with the added bonus that the positively brilliant John Turturro is set to receive the 2008 Mid-Life Achievement Award at this year’s Maine International Film Festival. Passes on sale now.
The Maine Lobster Festival
Jul 30 - Aug 3, Rockland
It wouldn’t be summer in Maine without lobster. Unless, of course, you don’t care for lobster. Still . . .
The Topsham Fair
Aug 03 - 09, Topsham
Call it a sentimental favorite. I’ve been going since I was a kid.
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