Community Events

The Moosabec Summerfest, begins June 27th and offers a full week of scheduled activities leading to the Independence Day Celebration on July 5th.  Plans for this year's events (at the Ball Diamond unless noted otherwise) include:

• House and Business Decorating Contest - June 14 to June 28
• Pretty Baby Contest - June 13 to June 27 @ Jonesport Beals High School
• Miss Beals Pageant - Friday June 27 at 6:00 PM
• Saturday June 28, ~ 9:00 AM Car Show; 6:00 PM Miss 4th of July Pageant @ Jonesport Beals High School
• Sunday June 29 ~ 9:00 AM - Cake Decorating @ Beals Elementary; 9:00 AM to 3:00 @ Beals Elementary - Craft Fair; 10:00 AM - Community Church Service; 1:00 PM - Cornhole Tournament; 5:00 PM - Basket Bingo
• Monday June 30 ~ 10:00 AM Children's Pet Show; 4:00 PM Frogtown Mountain Puppeteers; 6:30 PM Ice Cream Social 
• Tuesday July 1 ~ 4:30 PM Pour and Paint; 7:30 PM Karaoke Night
•  Wednesday July 2 ~ 1:00 PM Senior Bingo; 4:00 PM Senior Family Chicken BBQ; 6:00 PM Women's Skillet Toss; 6:00 PM Herky Wilcox Memorial Cribbage Tournament
• Thursday July 3 ~ 4:30 Lobster Feed; 8:00 PM Comedian Nick Gordon
• Friday July 4 Kid's Day ~ 10:00 AM Children's Mini Parade; 2:00 PM Lobster Crate Races @ the Marina; 4:30 PM Anything That Floats Race 
• Friday July 4 ~ 8:00 PM ADULT Dance 
• Saturday July 5 ~ the Independence Day Celebration:
  • 7:00 AM Annual Pancake Breakfast - Sawyer Memorial Congregational Church
  • 8:00 AM 5-K Road Race - Backfield Park, Beals
  • 8:00 AM Annual Yard Sale - Jonesport Fire Department
  • 10:30 AM World's Fastest Lobster Boat Races - on the Reach
  • 6:00 PM Grand Parade - Main Street (line up at Sawyer Square)
  • 9:00 PM Fireworks - Perio Point (foot traffic only)

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Visit the website and the Moosabec Summerfest Facebook pages at the links below for updates and more information. The Summerfest Book, available at area businesses contains an events calendar and details, and a list of World Famous Lobster Boat Race classes. 

Peabody Memorial Library's Music in the Library program features several entertaining, high-class vocal and instrumental concerts during the year.

Some of the genres include jazz, classical, Celtic, Appalachian, French Canadian, and familiar bossa-nova standards from the 1960's. Local Down East, Maine history can be learned by attending performances by folk artists who sing of ocean and ship lore.

View the performance schedule on the library's website at the link below.

Art in the Library is a self-supporting, non-profit program of the Peabody Memorial Library. Through this program local artists have the opportunity to exhibit their artwork during a series of scheduled art shows throughout the year.

Check the the library website for specific dates of upcoming art shows and artist receptions. Receptions are free and presented as a public social event.

The wide selection of children's programs include summer and winter reading programs, and other events, and workshops. Activities are funded by Friends of the Library along with private donations. Volunteers are always needed for these events.

Visit the library website at the link below for a schedule of upcoming children's program events.

The Jonesport Historical Society hosts public meeting presentations by guest speakers on a wide variety of topics of historic and general interest. A series of movie nights may also be scheduled.

Events are open to the public and are held in the society's Museum and Heritage Center located in the historic Sawyer Building at 21 Sawyer Square.

Visit the library's web page linked below or their Facebook page for a schedule of upcoming events.