COLUMBIA FALLS, ME
Wreaths Across America announces the Mobile Education Exhibit 2024 National Tour schedule
Wreaths Across America (WAA) is overwhelmed with the outpouring of support from communities throughout the country for its Mobile Education Exhibit (MEE). The MEE is a rolling interactive museum that shares the organization’s mission to Remember the fallen, Honor those who serve, and Teach the next generation the value of freedom. Today, WAA announces the MEE schedule for 2024.
Next year’s national tour will begin in North Carolina in January, then head to South Carolina in February, followed by stops in Georgia, Kentucky and Florida in March and April. The MEE will then head to Tennessee and Ohio in May, followed by Arkansas in June, and Iowa, Missouri, Indiana, and Illinois for the rest of the summer. The exhibit will then visit the Delmarva peninsula in September and October. From there, it will make its way up through New England for the next month before heading home to Maine to join Wreaths Across America’s “Escort to Arlington” ahead of Wreaths Across America Day 2024.
To learn more about the Mobile Education Exhibit or submit a request for it to come to your community in 2024, visit this web site: https://www.wreathsacrossamerica.org/About/MobileEducationExhibit
“The goal of the Wreaths Across America Mobile Education Exhibit is to bring communities together and teach about the organization’s mission,” said Trish Gardner, Manager, Mobile Education Exhibit, Wreaths Across America. “The exhibit serves as a mobile museum, educating visitors about the service and sacrifice of our nation’s heroes and serving as an official ‘welcome home’ station for our nation’s Vietnam veterans.”
Most importantly, the MEE and WAA Ambassadors transporting the mobile museum and sharing the mission are proud to have officially welcomed home over 3,300 Vietnam veterans since it first hit the road in 2019 as part of the organization’s partnership with the United States of America Vietnam War Commemoration.
In January of 2023, the MEE left Maine and began its national tour in California and will be finishing this year’s route as a member of the annual “Escort to Arlington,” kicking off on Dec. 9. The weeklong escort – known to some as the world’s longest veterans’ parade – will make stops at schools and memorials down the East Coast carrying Gold Star and Blue Star families, veterans, and patriots sharing the mission and bringing communities together, culminating at Arlington National Cemetery on National Wreaths Across America Day – Saturday, Dec. 16, 2023.
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LAKEPORT
Symphony Performs Classical Favorites on Sunday. Community/Youth Orchestra Opens Fall Concert
The Lake County Symphony will present its annual Fall Concert at 2 p.m., November 19, at Lakeport’s Soper Reese Theatre. Musical Director/Conductor John Parkinson leads the orchestra in colorful selections by some of the greatest composers in Western history. The orchestra begins its performance with Johannes Brahms’ Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80, followed by the “Rosamunde Overture” by Franz Peter Schubert, and “Danse Bacchanale” by French composer Camille Saint-Saens. After a brief intermission, the audience will hear The Magic Flute Overture, K 620 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The concert ends with Josef Haydn’s Symphony No. 99 in E flat major.
The concert starts, as is customary, with a performance by the Lake County Community and Youth Orchestra conducted by career musician Camm Linden. Linden plays with the Lake County Symphony and is the president of the Lake County Symphony Association. The LCCYO will play several familiar pieces, including Brahm’s Hungarian Dance No. 5, and Ravel’s “Bolero.” They will also debut “Honor and Tribute,” a spirited march by Kevin Kaisershot. Formerly the LCSA Youth Orchestra, this group now welcomes all players—S from school age to adults with current or previous intermediate to advanced musical experience.
Tickets for Sunday’s regular concert are $25 for general seating or $30 for premium seating and may be purchased on the Soper Reese website: https://www.soperreesetheatre.com. There is a $5 discount for LCSA members. The 11 a.m. dress rehearsal concert is free for those under the age of 18 and just $5 for everyone else. Tickets are also available at the Soper Reese box office at 275 S. Main Street on the day of the concert. Please arrive 30 minutes prior to the show when buying tickets at the door. For more information about this concert, upcoming events or to learn more about the LCCYO, go to www.lakecountysymphonyassociation.org.
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