The Society's annual heritage festival will include the Hall Lecture (Friday evening, August 8th, at 7:30 PM), 18th century re-enactors, old-time crafts, an art show, historical films, period room tours, a children's parade and games, badminton and croquet tournaments, a log drivers' bean supper, an open house at the Lower Sunday River Schoolhouse, a Sunday afternoon program on Maine lakes steamboating, and an old-fashioned hymn sing at the Middle Intervale Meetinghouse.

This year's Hall Lecture will be presented by Donna M. Cassidy, Professor of American & New England Studies and Art History at the University of Southern Maine. Her presentation will be entitled, "Marsden Hartley, New England History, and 1930s Regionalism."