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PHOTO: The ice cream eating contest is a popular feature at the Rangeley Trail Town Festival, which will be Sept. 3. (Peggy Yocom photo)
RANGELEY – The 10th Rangeley Trail Town Festival will be held on Sept. 2 and 3.
The festival kicks off with the Maine Outdoor Film Festival at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 2, at RFA Lakeside Theater, 2493 Main St. Admission is $7 for adults, and $4 for Appalachian Trail hikers and children under 12.
The festival is the next day from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Haley Pond Park, Pond Street, with free admission. The festival includes music, storytelling, games, crafts, activities, chainsaw carving, food and more.
Some specific events are:
11 a.m. – Rangeley Rescue will demonstrate how they rescue hikers using ropes and more.
11:45 a.m. – Actress Anne Van Curen transforms into Emma “Grandma” Gatewood to tell stories about what it was like to be the first woman to solo hike the Appalachian Trail.
12:30 p.m. – Maine singer-songwriter Denny Breau will perform.
3 p.m. — Ice Cream Eating Contest ($2 kids, $3 adults, free to Appalachian Trail hikers).
Maine outdoors organizations including Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust, High Peaks Alliance, Maine Appalachian Trail Club and Maine Appalachian Trail Land Trust will share information about how to hike safely and how to care for local woods and trails.
The Outdoor Film Festival (films about the outdoors, viewed indoors), includes eight short films, ranging in length from four minutes to about half an hour, that celebrate the outdoors, including several from Maine.
Films to be shown are “The Story of a Trout” (12 min. by Gareth Leah), “The Last Last Hike” (19.9 min. by Céline François), “We Are Like Waves” (12 min. by Jordyn Romero), “In Pursuit of Soul” (34.5 min. by Jeremy Grant), “Keystone: Voices for the Little Fish” (11.2 min. by Jerry Monkman), “Sap Time” (4.2 min. by Roger Scott McCord of Maine), “Yo Gleans” (10.5 min. by Blake Horn) and “Don’t Feed the Coyotes” (33.4 min. by Nick Stone Schearer).
Rangeley is one of only 35 towns along the 2,180-mile Appalachian Trail to be named an official Appalachian Trail Community, as a community that actively protects its natural, cultural and recreational resources, including the AT. The trail which runs from Georgia to Katahdin.
For more information, visit rangeleytrailtown.com.
