GRAY — The Maine Wildlife Park in Gray is offering a special event, Enchanted Forests and Fairy Houses, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 4-5. Visitors will be able to meet and have their pictures taken with ‘real’ fairies and elves. Fairies take over a corner of the picnic area with […]
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Fairy Walk attracts hundreds to Peru trail
PERU — “Look high, look low, look far and look near,” Mary Pulsifer tells those who visit the Fairy Walk on her one-eighth of a mile wooded trail on Pulsifer Road. She encourages visitors to look around because she doesn’t want them to miss any of the interesting decorations around them. Along the trail are […]
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Peru women build a community of ‘fairy houses’ for residents
PERU — There’s an old logging trail behind Mary Pulsifer’s house that leads from her backyard to Greenwoods Road. Lining the trail are more than 300 fairy houses. Fairy houses are small houses built using natural materials, such as sticks, bark, grass, pebbles, feathers and pine cones, Pulsifer said. “The whole story behind fairy houses […]
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Eddy School students create fairy village for Mahoosuc Land Trust in Bethel
BETHEL — There’s no shortage of fairy housing in Bethel now. Twelve students in grades five through eight from The Eddy School in Newry put their imaginations and nature construction skills to work early Friday afternoon. They built a fairy home village in a stand of mixed hardwoods and white pine near the Mahoousuc Land […]