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May 21st Bath will celebrate the first day of Arbor Week with the planting of two Honey Locust trees on the Customs House lawn and at City Park. The saplings were donated to the city by the Bath Forestry Committee and are direct descendants of the famous tree under which Abraham Lincoln gave his Gettysburg Address. The following Monday, the American Legion will hold memorial services and a Memorial Day parade starting at 10:30am. For information on the full schedule, call the Main Street Bath office at 442-7291.
“Among the greats of all time…He blazes on harp with brilliant virtuosity.” -Rolling Stone Grammy Award-winning harmonica master James “Mr. Superharp” Cotton and his band will perform at the Chocolate [...]
Main Street Bath is a “grass-roots” organization, but volunteer efforts in the past week have been all about the flowers. The Design Committee’s “yard” sale at the visitors information center during Mayfair raised over $500 to help fund the downtown flower baskets for this summer. Then on Monday, members of the Morse High School freshman class joined us for the annual Buzzy Fitzgerald Community Service Day to pack up the left-over tag sale items for donating and help with landscaping the garden at the visitor center’s south end.
In spite of this week’s hold-overs from April’s showers, rain or shine, this Saturday we’ll celebrate Mayfair with Maypole dancing to music by Sharon Pyne and Friends, downtown sidewalk sales, a Big Tent sale, and Bath’s annual Citywide Yard Sale! 34+ residents and organizations will be holding yard sales that morning, with non-profits at City Park on Washington Street or their rain location in the Elks Club on Lambert Street, and residents’ sales at locations throughout the city. Main Street Bath will hold a tag sale at the visitors center with proceeds going to help fund the flower baskets on downtown Bath lampposts this summer.
Bath is truly blooming these days. A special pleasure for me is the view of the small garden outside the window of my office in the Bath train station building. This is also the sight that greets people as they first approach the downtown from Route 1 N. or enter the Visitor Information Center parking. Thanks to the combined efforts of the City of Bath, the Bath Garden Club and Main Street Bath Design Committee members, it offers a bright welcome with a colorful bed of flowering bulbs and shrubs, with special thanks to Greg Moyer and Tom York for their landscaping work this spring.
The 40th Annual Albert Reed & Thelma Walker Maritime History Symposium will be held at Maine Maritime Museum in Bath, Saturday, April 28, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. The theme for this year’s presentations is “The History and Future of the Maritime Experience.” The theme was chosen to reflect upon and recognize that Maine Maritime Museum is commemorating its 50th anniversary year during 2012 and that the Museum’s collections represent the spectrum of activities that comprise the maritime world.
Plans are well underway for Mayfair on Saturday May 5th, when spring should be well underway. We’ll celebrate with Maypole dancing and other rites of the season, like our annual Citywide Yard Sale! The call is now out for participants, so if it’s time to clean out those closets and empty the garage, click here to download your yard sale form. And save the date for Maypole dancing, bargain hunting, and more!
Celebrated Maine author and Bath native Elizabeth Peavey brings her hilarious and heartbreaking one-woman show, “My Mother’s Clothes Are Not My Mother,” to the Chocolate Church Arts Center on Saturday April 21 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday April 22 at 2 p.m.
Main Street Bath is just back from Baltimore where we received a 2012 Great American Main Street Award at the National Main Street Conference. Woohoo!! Check us out in our team t-shirts… sourced downtown at Reny’s department store, with design donated by Snow Park Design and printing donated by Mainely Embroidery. Many thanks to both! It was an honor for us to be there and accept the award on behalf of all the volunteers, businesses, organizations and community partners who have contributed to the success of the revitalization effort in our Cool Little City.
Solo pianist George Winston, best known for his seasonally themed recordings including DECEMBER, AUTUMN, WINTER INTO SPRING, and SUMMER, will perform a solo piano concert at the Chocolate Church Arts Center in Bath on SATURDAY March 31st at 7:30 p.m. This solo piano concert will feature selections from George’s melodic piano recordings, as well as R & B piano, stride piano, Vince Guaraldi’s Peanuts © pieces, and more. George will also play some Hawaiian Slack Key guitar.
Bath Farmers Market, UCC, 150 Congress Avenue Welcome, it’s spring. Here we are at the UCC on Congress Street in Bath, stretching ever more towards the sun, the ground warming, and the Farmers Market bringing a last great burst of winter richness onto your tables to carry you into the growing season. Morning glory muffins, with (for some) rich memories of radical 60s alternatives and energies, are rich and tasty at Hootin Gluten, vegan, sugar free and healthy too. Or try banana blueberry for a fruity burst.
Patten Free Library “Lunch at the Library” to Focus on Health Literacy and Health Information Online On Wednesday, March 28, the Patten Free Library (PFL) will host the third in a series of monthly brown-bag lunch series with a talk on health information literacy and on-line health information. The presenter, Anita Ruff, a Bath resident, is the Director of MaineHealth Learning Resource Centers. The “Lunch at the Library” presentation is free, open to the public, and will begin at 12:00 p.m. in the Library’s second floor Community Room. No pre-registration is required.
As part of its St. Patrick’s Day celebration, the city will hold a Blarney Ball at Winter Street Center from 7-10 p.m. Saturday, March 17. The Big Chips Trio will perform, sponsored by Bath Savings Institution. Light refreshments will be served, and a cash bar will be available.
Don’t miss ‘Voices of the Sea’ fishermen poetry event Thursday, 5:30 pm; DiMillo’s On the Water, Old Port Come celebrate – or at least enjoy – the Ides of March as MMM presents its newest event, Voices of the Sea, Maine fishermen and seamen sharing their lives and talents as they examine their water-borne careers through poetry and music.
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