Mud football is only one of dozens of events in the weekend celebration, which includes a fly-casting clinic, a skateboard jam, a parade, and the crowning of Mrs. Kingfield.
The Stanley Museum holds an open house through the celebrations. A mecca for steam-car buffs, the museum chronicles the achievements of twins F.E. and F.O. Stanley and their sister Chansonetta Stanley Emmons, all born in Kingfield. The twins are best remembered for the Stanley Steamer automobile, but made their fortune by inventing a process to coat glass plates with photographic emulsion. (They sold the patents to George Eastman of Kodak fame, and were safely out of the business by the time photography turned to film negatives.) Two of their impressive automobiles are exhibited, along with an earlier Stanley Steamer on loan from a museum member. The bulk of the museum's collection of Emmons's photographs are on loan to a museum in Portland, but the remaining examples confirm her standing as a pioneer art photographer.
