39th annual Paris Founders Day and Classic Car Exhibit is July 15

PARIS — The 39th annual Founder’s Day and Classic Car Exhibit is slated for Saturday, July 15.

The showpiece of the charity event is the Bahre Collection of antique and classic cars. The collection, housed at the birthplace of Hannibal Hamlin, Abraham Lincoln’s first vice-president, is open once a year to the public at Founder’s Day.

The collection of more than 50 vehicles includes one of the world’s finest assemblages of Packards, according to a news release from the Hamlin Library and Museum. The Packard collection features Dietrich V-windshield body styles and LeBaron V-windshield body styles on the Packard 12 chassis for 1932-34, the one-off front-wheel-drive prototype sedan, a 1906 Model S touring car and other specialty Packards. The collection also has an antique doll and toy collection, horse-drawn carriages, player piano, old phonographs, table-top instruments and a jukebox.

Founder’s Day festivities include music, entertainment and a crafts fair. The charity event is from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the Paris Hill Green, rain or shine. Donations for admission to The Bahre Collection are $10 for adults and $2 for children 12 and under. All proceeds from admissions will support the Hamlin Memorial Library and Museum.

For more information call the Hamlin Memorial Library at 743-2980 or visit hamlin.lib.me.us/founders_day.