Farmers market on Aug. 18

WELD — The University of Maine Weld Community Extension will hold its 17th annual farmers market from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 18, at the Town Hall.

There will be crafts, raffles, baked goods, pickles and preserves, rummage/white elephant items, homemade box lunches to go, flowers and fresh vegetables.

Celebrate town founders

STRATTON — Each year the Dead River Area Historical Society celebrates the founders of Stratton. On Aug. 19, the group will honor the founders of Eustis, the Stevens family, hosted by direct descendant Caleb and Lisa Stevens from Dryden. Caleb grew up in Stratton and his many friends are invited to drop in and say hello.

One hundred and ninety four years ago, Mr. Caleb Stevens (1776-1855) journeyed, with his wife Sally Thomas Stevens and nine children, from Kingfield to the intersection of Stratton Brook and the Dead River in the fall of 1818. They walked as far as Carrabassett the first day and arrived to their destination on the second day.

This was not Caleb’s first trip. His first trip in August 1818 was to scope out the new enterprise, build a cabin and barn and then return in the fall to get his family.

Route 27 between Kingfield and Stratton is now “The Caleb Dalton Stevens Memorial Highway.”

The Dead River Area Historical Society is open every weekend throughout July and August from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Displays include a collection of old carpentry and logging tools, china, glass, church organ, furniture from native families, a complete schoolroom, a memorial room to the “lost” towns of Flagstaff and Dead River, the lineage of several native families, and a host of memorabilia from native homesteads.