Sometimes, to find great free things to do with the kids, all you have to do is ask.

For years, I had driven by the Gilsland Farm Audubon Center off Route 1 in Falmouth and just assumed there was a fee to use it. Or at least you had to be an Audubon member, I figured.

It's sort of trendy to hate malls.

But I look at the mall as a veritable variety pack of free entertainment for little kids.

And this time of year, when it might actually get sticky enough for a soul to seek out air-conditioning in Maine, the mall has that for free too.

Drive-in movies may be dying out, but walk-in movies are all the rage in Portland this summer.

Starting with "Finding Nemo" tonight, there’ll be a different, free movie playing in Congress Square on Monday nights through Aug. 4.