Friday Night Film Series

The Friends of the Thomaston Public Library present:



High Noon
Friday, September 3rd
6:30 PM
Room 208, Thomaston Academy Building

Retiring Marshall Will Kane (Gary Cooper) insists on defending his town from a gang of hooligans who are due on the noon train -- but he faces the task alone as the cowardly townspeople flee like rats from a sinking ship. Director Fred Zinnemann creates an incredibly tense Western (rightly considered one of the true genre classics) that unfurls in real time -- as the clocks on the wall constantly remind us. Grace Kelly and Lloyd Bridges co-star.

Doors and Hallway Books open at 6 and admission, as always, is free. Donations gratefully accepted and light refreshments will be served. For more information, call the library at 354-2453

Friday Night Film Series

The Friends of the Thomaston Public Library present:

James Dean in
Rebel Without a Cause

Friday, August 27th
6:30 PM
Thomaston Academy Building, room 208

When Jim Stark (Dean) arrives in a new town with his troubled past firmly in tow, he quickly falls for the girl next door (Natalie Wood) and befriends the vulnerable Plato (Sal Mineo) forming a surrogate family fueled by alienation. From a deadly game of chicken to the spectacular climax at Los Angeles's Griffith Park Observatory, directory Nicholas Ray's Oscar-nominated portrait of teen angst provided a jolt to 1950s America.

Doors and bookstore open at 6 and admission, as always, is free. Light refreshments will be served and donations are gratefully accepted. For more information call the library at 354-2453.

Friday Night Film Series

The Friends of the Thomaston Public Library present:














Marlon Brando in
On the Waterfront
Friday, August 20
6:30 PM
Room 208, Thomaston Academy Building

Winner of 8 Oscars, director Elia Kazan's classic morality tale stars Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy, a has-been boxer who experiences a crisis of conscience while working for mob controlled union boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb). Terry turns a blind eye when Friendly's thugs kill a fellow dockworker to keep him from testifying in a corruption case, but he has second thoughts when the victim's sister (Eva Marie Saint) urges him to take a stand. Rod Steiger plays Terry's brother, also involved with the mob. Karl Malden plays a priest who tries to guide Terry.

Doors and the bookshop will open at 6 and admission, as always, is free. Donations are accepted and light refreshments will be served. For more information, call the library at 354-2453.

Display Case Donation

Thomaston Public Library is very pleased to announce that we have received a large display case from the W. Tom and Bonnie Sawyer Library at Husson College. The new display case will be one of three main areas for community people to show off their collections, artwork, crafts or other items as part of the library's new Community Displays program. For more information about this program and to find out how you can display your items, call the library at 354-2453.

The library staff and trustees would like to thank volunteers William Dashiell (right) and Harold Willey (seated) for their help in transporting and assembling the new display case.

Friday Night Film Series

The Friends of the Thomaston Library Present:

East of Eden

Friday, August 13

6:30 PM

Room 208, Thomaston Academy

Set in California's Salinas Valley, Elia Kazan's adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel centers on Cal Trask (Dean), the black sheep of a stern farmer (Raymond Massey). Tired of being compared to his perfect brother, troublemaker Cal tries in vain to please his father. The two finally face off when Cal confronts his dad with the truth about his allegedly dead mother, played by Jo Van Fleet. Julie Harris and Burl Ives co-star.

Friday Night Films are shown free of charge and light refreshments will be served. The them for August is "50's Icons: Marlon Brando and James Dean". Doors and bookstore open at 6 and donations are gratefully accepted. For more information call the library at 354-2453.

Artists Among Us: Joyce Tenneson

The Friends of the Thomaston library present:

Joyce Tenneson

Wednesday, August 4th
7 PM, Academy Building Gymnasium (lower level)

On Wednesday, Aug. 4, Friends of the Thomaston Public Library's Artists and Authors Among Us lecture series will continue with photographer Joyce Tenneson. The one-hour presentation will begin 7 p.m. in the Academy Building gym.

Tenneson will show slides from her award-winning book "Intimacy: The Sensual Essence of Flowers." During the lecture, she will show flowers she has photographed from around the world.

Tenneson is among the most respected photographers of our time and has been described critically as one of America's most interesting portrayers of the human character. Her work has appeared on countless covers for magazines such as Time, Life, Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek, Premiere, Esquire and The New York Times Magazine.

The program includes time for questions, and a small reception will be held. The series is are free to the public, but donations to the library are greatly appreciated.

Upcoming presenters include author Sandy Oliver, Aug. 18; artist Elizabeth Greenburg, Sept. 8; and artist Eric Hopkins, Sept. 15. For more information, contact the library at 354-2453.

Friday Night Film Series

The Friends of the Thomaston library present:

A Streetcar Named Desire
Friday, August 6
6:30 PM
Room 208, Thomaston Academy

After losing the family plantation to creditors, aging Southern belle Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) travels to New Orleans seeking solace in her sister, Stella (Kim Hunter). Instead, she goes toe-to-toe with Stella's brute of a husband, Stanley (Marlon Brando). Leigh, Hunter and Karl Malden all took home Oscars for their work in this sizzling adaptation of Tennessee Williams' classic rumination on carnal attraction and faded gentility.

Doors and bookstore open at 6 and admission is free. Light refreshments served and donations gratefully accepted. For more information call the library at 354-2453.