Lindsey Beth Currier, a mountain-bike skills coach, is offering a mountain bike skills clinic on the trails behind Oxbow Brewing Co. in Newcastle on Friday, July 14 from 3-4:30 p.m. Participants will learn how to mountain bike or how to take their current skills to the next level with a co-ed clinic designed for men and women 16 years old and up who have at least one year of cycling experience. The class is also great for more experienced riders who have no or very little skills-training experience.

The 53rd annual Antique Auto Days event on Saturday and Sunday, July 15 and 16 will feature dozens of classic, vintage, antique, hot rod, and muscle cars, and much more, all parked on the village green at Boothbay Railway Village in Boothbay. This is an all-makes and all-models show in partnership with the Maine Obsolete Auto League.

The Nobleboro Historical Center is open every Saturday in July and August from 1:30-4:30 p.m. and a docent will be there to help. The center’s building is the old Hawthorne schoolhouse from West Neck Road that was used from the mid-1800s until the 1930s; school desks and books are set up in front of the original blackboard.

Maine author Don Perkins calls himself a self-taught “barnologist,” a specialist in the history of barns, when he describes the expertise he will share with the Old Bristol Historical Society on Sunday, July 9, at 7 p.m. at the Congregational Church of Bristol Mills, at 1261 Bristol Road, Bristol Mills (Bristol). The historical group is taking its lecture series on the road this summer, scheduling its programs at venues in several of the villages that make up the town of Bristol. Later events are scheduled for Round Pond, Pemaquid Falls, and Pemaquid Point.

The long tables and even the floor in Kings Mills Union Hall are piled high with something for everyone as Whitefield’s 4th of July celebration and the hall’s annual white elephant sale draw near.

A bean supper is said to be a traditional Saturday-night meal in New England, but St. Paul’s Union Chapel is having one on Thursday, June 29 in what once served as a one-room schoolhouse on Dutch Neck Road in Waldoboro and attendees will be having more than beans.