Kate Madore, left, hands registered runners their Moxie 5K T-shirt Friday in Lisbon Falls. The road race begins Saturday at 7:30 a.m. and 460 people have signed up. The three-day festival runs through Sunday. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Jake McCain, 6, swings on his front porch Friday as his mother, Amy, decorates for the Moxie Festival in Lisbon Falls. “We love Moxie days,” Amy said. “We live for it.” The three-day festival runs through Sunday. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Gov. Janet Mills peaks from behind a book about Moxie on Friday at the Moxie Festival recipe contest at Lisbon High School. The three-day festival runs through Sunday. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Misty Gendron, left, of Lisbon and Cassidy Haskell of Auburn prepare their entry Friday during the Moxie Festival recipe contest at Lisbon High School. “Mammie’s Moxie Waffles” is Nate Garnett’s “grandmother’s waffle recipe that we Moxied up,” Garnett said. The three-day festival runs through Sunday. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Nans Barschdorf of Lisbon Falls arrives Friday at the Moxie Festival recipe contest at Lisbon High School. The three-day festival runs through Sunday. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal