MARK YOUR CALENDAR! The Annual Bean-Hole Bean Dinner will take place at the Patten Lumbermen’s Museum on Sat. August 13, 2016. There could not be a more AUTHENTIC bean supper, they are making it just “Like the river drivers used to do it”!
Program
Saturday, August 13th, 2016
Annual Bean-Hole Bean Dinner
Always the second Saturday in August
Bean-hole baked beans like the river drivers used to do it
Maine’s own “red” hot dogs
Biscuits made and baked by the fire
Coleslaw
Gingerbread made by our own local ladies
Coffee boiled over the open fire- yes, if you wait til the end of the day, you can stand a spoon up in it!
Special guest: Gus LaCasse, Fiddle player extraordinaire, will entertain us with his exceptional musical ability!
Wagon rides with John and Linda Boyce, Champ, and Cherry
Music by the RFD Band
Blacksmithing demonstrations- try your hand at it!
Wood turning demonstrations- watch a bowl be “turned” from a burl off a tree
Meet Randy Probert- author of many books depicting his stories of his days as a local game warden
Children’s games
Crafters’ tables
About the Patten Lumbermen’s Museum: The Patten Lumbermen’s Museum invites you to visit our facility to learn all about Maine logging history, including the use of bateaux on waterways to transport supplies, the stories of the fearless river drivers, what life was like inside a remote logging camp, and even the role of bean hole beans.
Directions: The Patten Lumbermen’s Museum is situated just northwest of Patten, ME, on Route 159 (the Shin Pond Road), about a mile from the center of town.
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