RANGELEY — Celebrate the cultural heritage of logging in the western mountains of Maine on Friday and Saturday, July 23 and 24, at the 30th annual Logging Festival held by the Rangeley Lakes Region Logging Museum and featuring music with Banjo Dan and the Mid-Nite Plowboys, a parade on Main Street, a woodsmen’s competition, new exhibits, children’s games and a bean-hole bean dinner.

This year, the museum is partnering with the Northern Forest Canoe Trail as members celebrate their 10th anniversary in Rangeley on Saturday and Sunday, July 24 and 25.

On Friday afternoon at the museum site on Route 16 a mile east of Rangeley, visitors will watch George Slinn of Rangeley and Warwick, R.I., a veteran of Boy Scout bean-hole bean dinners, and Homer Everhard of Rangeley and East Walpole, Mass., begin the 22-hour process of preparing the ground and baking beans, a logging camp staple. Slinn and Everhard, along with their families and friends, will serve the beans on Saturday beginning at 11:30 a.m.

Visitors can also see members of the Northern Forest Canoe Trail as they build a portage trail from Haley Pond to the museum, part of the trail system the museum is planning. The NFCT will offer displays at the museum, as well as exhibits and demonstrations at their Saturday and Sunday festival at the Haley Pond Park by Ecopelagicon.

The museum’s main building will open at 11 a.m. Friday. New this year is the collection of vintage metal toy logging trucks donated by John and Troy Tyler of Farmington in memory of their wife and mother, Jackie Tyler.

Also on display are many permanent exhibits. The “Working the Woods” exhibit features laborers in the Maine forest, including Rangeley’s M&H Logging, Rodney Richard, Jeep Wilcox and the former Walter “Skeet” Davenport. Displaying the textile arts of women and men are the exhibits “Hand-in-Hand: Knitting and Logging” and “Knit by Heart: The Art of Lucille Richard (1927-2006).”

The museum offers a display of the folk art of the western Maine mountains: Alden Grant’s paintings of 1910s logging in the Kennebago area; Carl Traftons’ model drag drays and wagon sleds; Rodney Richard Sr.’s and Rodney Richard Jr.’s chain-saw wood carvings; and William Richard’s hand-carved white cedar fan towers.

Visitors can explore western Maine logging history through photograph collections donated by local woodsmen and their families: Allan Fraser, Wayne and Elijah White, Arthur Otis, Ben Morton, Leon Haley, Ruth Case and Jim Carter.

Historical logging equipment add to the story of work in the timber woods. Additional exhibits focus on the letters that Lincoln Toothaker and his bride, Idella Keith Toothaker, wrote to each other from 1890 to 1892 when he was working in the Toothaker and Herrick logging camps, the journal of Dr. Donald Bowen from the Magalloway Brown Co. camps and artifacts from the Davistown logging camps.

About 4:30 p.m. Friday, museum visitors can taste the biscuits that Stephen Richard mixes and  bakes on the camp-style reflector ovens placed around open fires, as in early logging camp days.

The evening program will begin at 7 p.m. in the undercroft of the Church of the Good Shepherd on Main Street with the 26th annual Little Miss and Mister Wood Chip talent contest. Chosen from 6- to 8-year-old contestants who sing or recite, winners will ride down Main Street in Saturday’s parade. To enter the contest, call Becky Hill (864-3982), Liz Pimentel (864-2426) or Peggy Yocom (864-3421).

Also on Friday evening, the museum will induct Bobbie Wilbur of Rangeley into the Loggers Hall of Fame. Music will feature the artistry of Banjo Dan and the Mid-Nite Plowboys from Vermont. Entrance fees for the evening are $3 adults, $1 for youth 6 to 18, and free for children 5 and under. Door prizes will be given.

On Saturday, the parade will starts 10 a.m. from the Rangeley Inn, with Farmington’s Old Crow Band, floats, the barrel train from West Paris, fire and rescue crews; and displays of new equipment and working logging trucks. Judges will award seven museum prizes in six categories: most appropriate to the logging industry ($100), best logging truck ($100), most entertaining ($75), most original ($50) and most humorous ($25), and two best youth floats ($25 each).

Events then move to the museum site where there will be more music, children’s games and displays of logging equipment and trucks. At 11:30 a.m., the bean-hole bean dinner will begin ($8 for adults, $3.50 for children 11 and under). Hot dogs and more will be available in the Cant Dog House, staffed by Wayne and Velma Lessard.

From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Banjo Dan and the Mid-Nite Plowboys will return. Rodney Richard Sr. will carve a chain-saw bear and auction it. Around 1 p.m., the woodsmen’s competition will begin under the eye of Rodney Richard Jr. and Lenita Richard. Master of Ceremonies and museum President Ron Haines will keep the competition moving.

Throughout the day at the museum field, artists will sell crafts such as wooden trucks, wooden household items, pottery, doll clothes, home cooking, Christmas crafts, knitting and Ecopelagicon nature books. An entrance fee of $3 for adults, $1 for youth 6 to 18 (free for children 5 and under) will give admission to all field activities and exhibits.

For more information, call Haines at 864-5551 or Google “Rangeley Logging Museum” for the Web site.