Forest Heritage days
August 7th & 8th begins Forest Heritage Days, a yearly celebration of the Moosehead Lake Region’s heritage and history. Some of this year’s events include area woods tours, educational forestry exhibits, Colby woodsman bus tour, craft fair, logging games and professional logger’s competition. Witness for yourself these professional loggers as they compete with their saws with great precision. Most of these events are located at the Greenville Lakers field complex.
August 13th brings science and astronomy followed by The North Woods sky. Dr John Herrmann and Mary Capriotti will present an exciting science show using liquid nitrogen to demonstrate lowtemperatures and the temperature of our solar system. If weather permits a sky watching session will follow. There is an expected meteor shower towards the constellation Perseus .You could see 60 meteors in an hour!
Cost for this event is $3.00 for adults Children k-12 are free.