In the kitchen at the Stone Mountain Arts Center in Brownfield, Alissa Blue grabs a tray of barbecue chicken to put it in oven. The center cooked 1,400 pieces of chicken for a free community dinner for 600 people on Aug. 25.
John Weston empties a barrel of corn husks in a trailer at Weston's Farm. The seventh-generation family farm along the Saco River picked 1,100 ears of corn for a community dinner that it organized and held.
Jeannette White puts letters on the Weston's Farm sign to notify passersby that the community dinner the farm organized would be held at Fryeburg Academy because of the threat of rain. It was the third free community dinner that the farm has held.
John Weston places ears of corn in a bin at Weston's Farm in Fryeburg.
Natalie Spak, left, and Jonathan Spak, owners of The Oxford House Inn in Freyburg, pull ears of corn out of cooking tanks.
Tyler Lienhardt, left, and Jed Bresette play music during dinner. Lienhardt and Bresette are members of the band Tricky Britches.
People line up to serve themselves buffet-style during the dinner featuring barbecue chicken, corn on the cob, roasted potatoes, cucumber and tomato salad and vanilla ice cream drizzled with maple syrup.
Allison Leach helps Hugh Hastings fill his plate. Weston's Farm organized the dinner and workers from Stone Mountain Arts Center, including Leach, volunteered to help serve the food.
Roasted potatoes, donated by Green Thumb Farms and roasted by 302 Smokehouse and the Fryeburg Rotary, are scooped out of a bowl during the dinner.
Jackie Shea of Fryeburg holds her full plate at the end of a buffet line at a free community dinner in Fryeburg. "I think it's wonderful," Shea said of the free dinner organized by Weston's Farm. "They're great people, they give back to the community all the time. And it's good, fresh food."
Clarence Leach, 3, butters his corn on the cob. The free dinner for 600 was organized by Weston's Farm with help from Stone Mountain Arts Center, The Oxford House Inn, Green Thumb Farms, 302 Smokehouse and the Fryeburg Rotary.
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