Friday Night Film Series

The Friends of the Thomaston Library present:

Miracle on 34th Street

Friday, Dec. 3rd

6:30 PM

Room 208, Thomaston Academy Building

The holiday season in in full swing when a cultured gentleman with twinkling eyes, ample belly and a snowy beard (Edmund Gwen) is hired as Macy's Santa Claus. He claims his name is Kris Kringle and soon fills everyone with the Christmas spirit - except for his boss, Doris Walker (Maureen O'Hara) who is raising her daughter (Natalie Wood) to not believe in Santa. But, when Kringle is accused by the department store's crazy psychologist of being insane and is put on trial, everyone's faith is put to the test as young and old alike face the age-old question: Do you believe in Santa Claus?

Friday Night Films are presented free of charge and are open to the public. Light refreshments will be served and donations are gratefully accepted.

December's film series is Christmas Classics. Please help celebrate the holidays by bringing a gift for the Library Holiday Tree - all the gifts will be donated to charity and families in need. Gifts may be placed in the box in Room 208 or in the box by the Holiday Tree in the library. For more information call the library at 354-2453.

Friday Night Film Series: No Film Fri., Nov. 26th

There will be no film shown at the Thomaston Public Library on Friday, Nov. 26th, due to the Thanksgiving Holiday.

Please join us on the first three Fridays in December for a films about the Christmas holiday season.

Library Closing: Thursday, Nov. 25th

The Thomaston Public Library will be closed from Thursday, Nov. 25th to Saturday, Nov. 27th, for Thanksgiving.

No items will be due on these days. Have a safe and happy holiday!

Thomaston Family Story Hour

Wednesday, November 16th

6:00 PM

Children's Library

Guest Reader: Erika Pfander will be substituting for Sen. Chris Rector, who is unable to attend due to a scheduling conflict.

Join us in the children's library for an hour of stories and activities with guest reader Erika Pfander from the Friends of the Thomaston Library. Erika will be reading to children and families of all ages at this free event.

Friday Night Film Series

The Friends of the Thomaston Library present:



The General
Friday, November 19th
6:30 PM
Thomaston Academy Building, room 208

Rejected by the Confederate Army as unfit and taken for a coward by his beloved Annabelle (Marion Mack), Johnnie Gray (Buster Keaton) sets out to single-handedly win the war with his cherished locomotive in this classic silent action-comedy. When Northern spies steal his train, the intrepid Confederate takes on the entire Union army to get it back. Keaton's extremely physical performance features a series of acrobatic stunts. Of special interest is the amazing fact that Keaton himself performed the dangerous and hair-raising stunts numerous times on real moving trains.

Friday Night Films are open to the public and free of charge, but donations are gratefully accepted. The Thomaston Academy Building is handicapped accessable from the rear entrance and light refreshments will be served. For more information call the library at 354-2453.

Library Closing: Thursday, Nov. 11th

The Library will be Closed on Thursday, November 11th

for Veterans Day. No items will be due on this day and regular hours will resume on Friday, November 12th.

Friday Night Film Series

The Friends of the Thomaston Public Library present:




City Lights
Friday, November 12th
6:30 PM
Thomaston Academy Building, room 208

Chaplin's moving, eloquent masterpiece! One of Chaplin's most highly acclaimed films, City Lights is both a classic and a personal statement in which the master of pantomime proves the eloquence of silence. Combining wonderful comedy and evocative drama, the little tramp falls in love with a beautiful, blind flower girl. By comic happenstance, she believes he is wealthy and he, in turn, sets out to raise the money for an eye operation.

Friday night films are presented free of charge but donations are always welcome. The Thomaston Academy Building is handicapped accessable from the parking lot entrance, and light refreshments will be served. For more information, call thel ibrary at 354-2453.

New Displays at the Thomaston Library

Three new displays have been unveiled at the Thomaston Public Library in the last few weeks. A display of Thomaston school artifacts on loan from the Thomaston Historical Society is currently on display in the entry corridor of the library. The artifacts will remain on display through the winter.

An artwork display featuring photography by Neil Shively has been installed in the library's lower level. Neil's photography display features photos from the area as well as Ireland, Africa, and other parts of the United States.

And in the main wing of the library, a doll collection owned by Friend of the Library Lysbeth Andrews, along with some loans from Corinne Darby, will be on display through December. The dolls are all handmade fisherman and mermaid dolls, created and sold by the Port Clyde Baptist Church Sewing Circle as part of their annual fundraiser. Andrews has been collecting the dolls for several years, and Darby is a member of the sewing circle.

Friday Night Film Series

The Friends of the Thomaston Library Present:

Buster Keaton Double Feature:

Our Hospitality and Sherlock Jr.

Friday, November 5th
6:30 PM

Room 208, Thomaston Academy Building

Our Hospitality - In many ways a companion piece to his 1926 classic "The General", Our Hospitality stars Keaton as a New York man who returns to his southern antebellum homeland to find himself embroiled in a longstanding fued between his family and that of the woman he loves. The sequence in which Buster travels southward by rinky-dink locomotive is a most sublime example of the director's craft that represents but a tiny portion of the extrardinary talent that characterizes the art of Buster Keaton.

Sherlock Jr. - Perhaps no other film offers as exciting a roller coaster ride through the golden age of comedy than Buster Keaton's "Sherlock Jr." Dramatizing the uproarious explots of a meek theatre projectionist turned amateur sleuth, the film blends the knockout physical comedy normally associated with slapstick, with more subtly-crafted moments of humor.

Friday Night Films are presented free of charge but donations are gratefully accepted. Light refreshments will be served and the Academy Building is handicapped accessable by the parking lot entrance. For more information call the library at 354-2453.