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Our region includes twelve communities in Midcoast Maine: Brunswick, Harpswell, Topsham, Bowdoin, Bowdoinham, Richmond, Bath, West Bath, Phippsburg, Woolwich, Arrowsic, and Georgetown.

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Heritage Highlights

Maple Syrup Sunday is March 23. Visit Goranson Farm, Rte 128, Dresden 03/22-03/23, 9am-4pm for sugarhouse tour and demos of syrup making. Free Maine maple sundaes with local ice cream. Live music, 11:30am-3pm. Sat pancake breakfast 8:30am-12:30pm. 737-8834, goransonfarm/gfourfrm.htm. Maine Maple Sunday is the fourth Sunday in March. This year it falls on Easter Sunday; many producers are open on a different day. getrealmaine.com/visit/maine_maple_sunday.html

Friends of Merrymeeting Bay lecture series about the history and environment of the Bay: 03/12: “The State of Maine’s Trees,” with Thomas Hoerth, Bath City Hall Auditorium. 04/09: “Thwings Point Archaeology,” Lee Cranmer, Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick. 05/14: “Waste and Toxins in Our Community,” Hillary Lister, Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick. 7pm. friendsofmerrymeetingbay.org

03/28-03/30¦Downeast Country Dance Festival. The 18th annual dance jubilee includes contradancing and much more-English, Scottish, Cajan, French, Waltz, Hambo, Schottis, Argentine Tango, Swing, and Morris Dancing. Workshops, jams, activities for kids and families! Wild Asparagus, Scrod Pudding and Frank Ferrel and the Ferel Cats, just to name a few of the 20 bands participating. For those still standing-there’s the Survivor’s Brunch and Dance on Sun, March 30. Mt Ararat Middle School and Orion Performing Arts Center, Topsham. Festival pass: $30/ind $25/stu; event tix also available. 563-8953, starleft.org/decdf/

Few people know that Carl Gustav Jung visited Bailey Island in 1936. Inspired by Jung, Mildred Harris founded the CG Jung Center in Brunswick in 1988 to further Jung’s work and thought. Spring topics: “Alchemy,” 03/01. “A Woman Scorned – Medea and Betrayal,” 03/15. “Why Good People Do Bad Things – Revisiting the Shadow,” with James Hollis, 04/11-04/12. “Dreams,” 04/16-05/21. Schedule and prices vary. 183 Park Row, Brunswick. 720-0300, cgjungcenter@gwi.net. mainejungcenter.org.

heritage days Celebrating 400 Years of Shipbuilding in Maine

Throughout the summer, celebrate the 400th anniversary of the Popham Colony and the start of shipbuilding in Maine. mainemaritimemuseum.org/