The Frogtown Mountain Puppeteers of Bar Harbor are coming to 19th Century Willowbrook Village, Sunday, Aug. 31, as the village hosts Agricultural Fair Days, with a full schedule of activities on Aug. 30 and 31.
The puppeteer troupe performs at venues all over the state. The troupe will perform their latest production: The Legend of the Banana Kid. Tickets to the show are $10 for ages 14 and older $8 for ages 5-13, and free for ages 4 and under, with a $40 maximum price for a family. A ticket purchase also includes admission to the museum for Aug. 31.
The Legend of the Banana Kid is a story about Little Chucky who heads to the Wild West to outwit outlaws in this cowboy adventure. With a fistful of bananas, Chucky rides into town on his trusty goat for a showdown with Big Bad Bart and his gang of bandits. The Legend of the Banana Kid features 20 handcrafted glove, mouth and rod puppets, and a slew of flying and twirling styrofoam bananas.
The Agricultural Fair Days includes hay rides, blacksmithing and walk-in knife making, a metal casting walk-in workshop, printing shop demonstrations and a walk-in type setting class, shaving horse demonstration, author CJ Pike, help make corn meal activity, a Windsor chair making demo with Jack Guzman, sharpening axes and scythes demo with Wayne Gillette, two-man saw activity; games and play of yesteryear, DJ Charlie Gassett playing blue grass favorites, pie-eating contest (sign up now) and pie contest. There is a collections, crafts, photography and art work competition, and fashioned baking and butter making in the victorian kitchen, along with laundering for the kids, carousel rides, working telegraphs, and more.
For Frogtown Mountain Puppeteer tickets, call 793-2784 or email [email protected] or visit www.willowbrookmuseum.org. Tickets are made possible thanks to a donation by J.P. Carroll Fuel of Limerick and other sponsors.
Comments are not available on this story. Read more about why we allow commenting on some stories and not on others.
We believe it's important to offer commenting on certain stories as a benefit to our readers. At its best, our comments sections can be a productive platform for readers to engage with our journalism, offer thoughts on coverage and issues, and drive conversation in a respectful, solutions-based way. It's a form of open discourse that can be useful to our community, public officials, journalists and others.
We do not enable comments on everything — exceptions include most crime stories, and coverage involving personal tragedy or sensitive issues that invite personal attacks instead of thoughtful discussion.
You can read more here about our commenting policy and terms of use. More information is also found on our FAQs.
Show less