The historic Washington Schoolhouse will be overflowing with bargains this weekend during the Attic-Basement-Closet Rummage Sale. The Round Pond Schoolhouse Association will be hosting this annual event from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 2 and from 10 a.m. to noon on Sunday, Sept. 3.

Mark the calendar to bid on treasures at the Damariscotta Historical Society’s silent auction to benefit its cemeteries restoration fund. The auction will run Tuesday, Sept. 5 through Friday, Sept. 15 at Skidompha Public Library.

The Jefferson Historical Society will host another open house at the old Jefferson town house from 5-7 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 30. There are three floors of exhibits related to Jefferson’s history, plus the Bond family hearse and the original privy which had been attached to the building.

The Chapman-Hall House will hold its annual yard sale 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 26 at 22 Lewis Point Road in Damariscotta.

The Damariscotta Historical Society is preparing to hold a silent auction to benefit the cemeteries restoration fund, Sept. 5-15 in the Skidompha Public Library atrium.

Healthy Lincoln County is proud to present 716 Candles, a transformative series of events commemorating International Overdose Awareness Day. Taking place throughout late August, this community-driven project aims to shed light on the human cost of substance misuse and the opioid epidemic while fostering healing, unity, and understanding within the Lincoln County community.

The year is 1632. The scene is Pemaquid, the capital of the prosperous fur trade in Maine. Lurking off the peninsula with three ships is a brazen marauder who will soon become known as “the dread pirate.” Find out what happens next when Maine native and award-winning author Jim Nelson presents “The Pirate Dixie Bull” on Sunday, Aug. 20 at 7 p.m. at The Congregational Church in Bristol. His talk will be the final installment of the Old Bristol Historical Society’s summer speaker series.

On Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 4 from 5-7 p.m. at Lakehurst Lodge in Damariscotta, the Bands for Books fundraiser for the Wiscasset Public Library will again feature its silent auction.

Throughout the second weekend in August, visitors can attend the Wiscasset, Waterville, and Farmington Railway Museum’s annual picnic, which it has hosted since 1992 to showcase what the railway has to offer.

Sunday, Aug. 13 is the annual running of the duckies as the Old Bristol Historical Society hosts its Rubber Duckie Race at the mill at Pemaquid Falls. The yellow duckies will be racing down the mill roof from 3-4 p.m.