STRATTON — The Dead River Area Historical Society plans to be open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 4, and Sunday Sept. 5. Join us Sunday for an Ice Cream Social set for 1-3 p.m. and along with your ice cream enjoy a brownie Ala mode made and served by volunteers.

Charlie Bruce and Peter Farnsworth will entertain those who attend with na afternoon of music. This is the bicentennial of Stratton so the music will be from 150 years ago. Bring your own chairs.

Money raised will be used to upgrade the bathroom.

The Dead River Area Historical Society is now open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. every weekend throughout August. 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.

For more information call Mary Henderson at 246-2271.