CYCLEBAR BDAY BASH
mark your calendars 9/16 – 9/22
A week of FREE rides for everyone
Grab your bike, don your costume, and let’s ride through the moonlit streets, spreading bike joy and spooky vibes! ♂️♀️
More details like start point, route, and playlist coming shortly!
The Northeast Sports Card Expo, the biggest card show in Maine, will take place in Portland, ME on October 19 & 20, 2024.
The biggest card show in Northern New England returns to Portland, Maine! The Northeast Sports Card Expo will take place on October 19 & 20, 2024. .
The family-friendly event will take place on Saturday, October 19 from 9am-6pm and Sunday, October 20 from 9am-4pm at the Portland Exposition Building. With 24,000 square feet of exhibition space, the Expo will feature 200+ vendor tables (with vendors from U.S. & Canada), and attendees will have access to a large range of new and vintage sports cards, as well as non-sports and Pokémon cards, funkos, sports memorabilia, all kinds of collectibles, and much more.
Celebrity autograph guests appearing in-person include former Boston Bruins players Ken Hodge Jr., Peter Douris, Graeme Townshend, Steve Kasper, and Steve Leach. Also featured are former New England Patriots player Roland James, US Hockey Hall of Famer Paul Stewart, and Pro Women’s Hockey League players Jillian Dempsey and Gigi Marvin. In an ongoing partnership with Pliable Marketing to promote the popularity of women’s sports, local Maine high school and college star athletes Kaylyn Bourque and Amber Bretton will make special appearances. Attendees will receive one FREE autograph from each guest with the price of admission.
The show will also feature on-site card-grading services, prize raffles, sports mascots, daily announcer hosts and much, much more. Celebrity autograph guests appearing at the show to be announced soon.
Admission is $10.00 each day. Kids under 12 free. Buy tickets online and skip the line when you arrive to the Expo: $10.00 (+ Eventbrite fees). Buy tickets at the door with cash or credit card: $10.00.
The Portland Exposition Building is conveniently located right off of I-295 in Portland, Maine.
For more information please visit https://www.northeastcardexpo.com/portland2024.
The Maine Brews Cruise and Freeport Wild Bird Supply are excited to resurrect our collaboration for three very special outings in 2024.
These unique, relaxed birding and beer-ing adventures that you have come to love combine great local birding at seasonal hotspots with visits to sample the delicious creations of some of our favorite local breweries. These tours are a perfect introduction to birding and/or craft beer, and a great opportunity to travel with significant others, friends, and family that have interest in one topic, while your interest is primarily in the other (for now!). Seasonal birding hotspots and great local beer – a perfect combination, and we’ll even do all of the driving!
For the first time ever, Birds on Tap! is hitting the water! That’s right, we taking a cruise. And our goal is to find a rare bird or two.
This very special trip will take us across Portland Harbor to the private House Island. We’ve been granted special permission to come ashore and scour the island here in the first peak of the fall “Rarity Season.” We’ll follow well-maintained trails through the island’s mosaic of open habitats, scrub, and young woods. These are great habitats to search for vagrants and other seasonal rarities, and we’ve eyed the habitat from our birding days on Peak’s Island.
While rare birds are rare, we are still going to expect the unexpected. But more likely are regular migrants of the season such as a variety of sparrows, and a growing diversity of waterbirds. At the very least, we’ll have resident waterbirds and several species of gulls to sort through. We are having daydreams of a rare flycatcher!
As we motor across the harbor, we’ll begin to familiarize ourselves with some of the common waterbirds, such as Common Eiders and Common Loons to look at, while you enjoy a local craft beverage produced in the city of Portland.
The beverages are included in the tour price, and The Maine Brews Cruise will supply a light snack and water. Bring binoculars We also recommend bringing a lunch or additional snack if you so desire. Sturdy comfortable walking shoes are also recommended, as are a variety of layers as it can be quite chilly on the water by the end of October.
Meeting Location
Please arrive 15 minutes prior to your departure time.
We’ll return to Portland Beer Hub at 2:00pm