Greenville to celebrate annual Forest Heritage Days
GREENVILLE — The 32nd annual Maine Forest Heritage Days is scheduled for Friday, Aug. 11 and Saturday, Aug. 12. The 2023 event includes a craft fair, chainsaw carving, a woodsman demonstration featuring chopping and ax throwing, the regional Game of Logging competition, museum exhibits, and a concert.
The Forest Heritage Days events start from 3-5 p.m. on Friday with a demonstration by the Colby College Woodsman’s Team at the Greenville Consolidated School, 130 Pritham Avenue.
Enjoy an authentic woodsman’s dinner of baked beans, hot dogs, biscuits, and more from 5:30-7 p.m. at the Masonic Temple on Pritham Avenue.
The documentary “Sunken Steamboats of Moosehead Lake” will be screened at 7 p.m. at the Moosehead Cultural Heritage Center, 6 Lakeview Street.
GENTLEMEN, START YOUR CHAINSAWS — Competition announcer Stuart Hall introduces the five entrants in the 2015 regional Game of Logging at the Greenville school grounds, held in conjunction with the annual Forest Heritage Days celebration. From left is Hall, Jeremy Grignon, Tom Fox — that year’s winner, John Grignon, Tyler McIntosh and Paul Cyr. The 2023 event gets underway at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 12 as part of Forest Heritage Days.
On Saturday from 7-10 a.m. enjoy a lumbermen’s breakfast at the American Legion Hall on Pritham Avenue. The Maine woodsman’s breakfast includes eggs, home fries, bacon, sausage, pancakes, and more.
From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the Greenville school campus will be the site of the Game of Logging competition. The site will include chainsaw carving demonstrations, an outside craft fair, forestry, wildlife and recreation exhibitors, forestry equipment, free horse and wagon rides, food vendors, and children’s programs.
From 5-7 p.m. will be a pizza party and downtown gazebo concert with the Allen Foster Band,
The complete schedule as well as information about ticketed events can be found at www.forestheritagedays.org or the event Facebook page.
Forest Heritage Days is an annual community event that honors the state’s most historic industry. The forest products industry has been a staple in Maine for generations and provides an annual economic impact of $8 to $10 billion, employs one in 20 Mainers and contributes 28.9 percent of all state exports. Annually since 1991, families and community members gather to celebrate this vibrant industry with several days of forestry fun.