Weekly group class and dancing 7-9 PM most Friday nights (Thursdays the last 2 weeks of August, 8/19 and 26) at the Argosy II Gallery, 6 Mt. Desert St., Bar Harbor, ME.  Fee: $10/person.  For more information, please visit www.argosydance.com,

The Bar Harbor Town Band was established in 1898, and performs free concerts in the Village Green during the summer months.  In case of rain, the concerts will be held at the Bar Harbor Congregational Church, located at 26 Mt. Desert Street, next to the Village Green. Concerts are free and open to the public. For more information, please visit www.townband.org/

Bring sketchbooks or a nature journal to practice drawing inside the George B. Dorr Natural History Museum. There are living tidepool creatures, dioramas featuring local animals in action, skeletons, and plants. Drawing is a powerful way to fully see and understand the details of the natural world. Museum staff will be available to assist participants on their self-guided efforts, and has paper and drawing materials available for those who don’t have their own. Museum is located on the campus of College of the Atlantic, 105 Eden Street Bar Harbor, Maine 04609.  For more information, please visit www.coa.edu/dorr.

Join COA alumnus, biologist Greg Smith, for a 45-minute to one-hour walk around the COA campus for both common and uncommon birds. A walk out to the pier may allow views of loons, ducks, gulls, and other seabirds. Do dress for the weather and bring a pair of binoculars if you have them. Call regarding weather. George B. Dorr Natural History Museum, College of the Atlantic, 105 Eden Street Bar Harbor, Maine 04609. For more information, please visit www.coa.edu/dorr.

Molly Neptune Parker, Passamaquoddy, is an
award-winning basket maker and experienced teacher. Participants will learn to process the some materials needed to make an ash and sweet grass fancy basket, use a mold to weave a basket with a lid, and use colored ash to make decorative curls on their baskets. Participants will leave with a beautiful basket of their own creation, and memories to last a lifetime! Please call the Abbe Museum to register.  Abbe Museum Downtown, 26 Mt. Desert St. Bar Harbor, Maine. $75 members for one day only $120 members for two days $115 non-members for one day only $160 non-members both days (includes a free membership to the Museum).  For more information, please visit www.abbemuseum.org.

Join us for a concert each Friday at St. Saviour's Parish, 41 Mt. Desert Street Bar Harbor, Maine. Admission is by donation For more information, please visit www.ellsworthme.org/ssaviour.

"Beat the Heat" - sample some of our favorite whites (and even a few reds) perfect for summer sipping.  House Wine, 227 Main Street Bar Harbor, Maine.  For more information, please visit www.housewineshop.com.

The scenic grounds of the College of the Atlantic on Route 3 in Bar Harbor, Maine will come alive with color, flavor and music for the Bar Harbor Summer Craft Festival on July 31 and August 1, 2010. Over 100 Juried Craftsmen and women will display and sell their American made works.  For more information, please visit Festivalnet.com.

Poetry reading by Charles Simic, Pulitzer prize-winning poet and former US poet laureate who was awarded a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant in 1984. Introduced by poet and novelist, Bill Carpenter, COA faculty member. Gates Community Center at College of the Atlantic. 105 Eden St., Bar Harbor, ME.  For more information, please visit www.coa.eduhttp://www.coa.edu.

Visit with artist and musician Hawk Henries, as he tells stories and plays his hand made flutes. Hawk is a world-renowned musician and storyteller who has performed at such venues as Quebec’s 400th Anniversary, the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, the New Orleans Jazz Festival and most recently in the United Kingdom with the London Mozart Players.  Abbe Museum Downtown, 26 Mt. Desert St. Bar Harbor, Maine.  Free with museum admission.  For more information, please visit www.abbemuseum.org.