Friday Night Film Series

Paper Moon

March 2, 2012

6:30 P.M.

A con man (Ryan O'Neal) and his precocious "daughter" (Tatum O'Neal), in an Oscar-winning role as Best Supporting Actress) con their way across the heartland of depression-era America in director Peter Bogdanovich's nostalgic look at the 1930s. As the two try desperately to scrounge up enough money to live on, they realize they need each other for survival.

Staff Changes at the Library

Please Join us on Friday, March 2nd to welcome our new Assistant Librarian, Joanna Hynd, and bid a fond farewell to our outgoing Head Librarian, Brian Sylvester. The party will begin at 4:00 PM in the Hallway Bookshop and will feature light refreshments and desserts.


Joanna Hynd is a Thomaston native and recent graduate of the University of Maine at Orono. She will be working in the Children's Library and managing children's programming. Brian Sylvester was raised in Rockland and educated at Rutgers University. He was hired at the Thomaston Library in 2008 and is leaving to accept a position in Rochester, NH.


Please bring a dessert with you and celebrate the library's future with us Friday from 4 to 6!

Martin Luther King Jr. Food Drive Ending Soon!

Donations of canned and boxed food items and household goods can still be dropped off until Wednesday, February 29, 2012 at the Thomaston Public Library. If you have not already done so, please consider making a donation to help our local neighbors.

Thank you!

Friday Night Film Series

Bad Day at Black Rock

February 24, 2012

6:30 P.M.

When John J. Macreedy (Spencer Tracy) steps off the train at the backwater hamlet of Black Rock, he inadvertently opens a Pandora's box of fear and suspicion. He's there to deliver a military award for heroism to a man whose son died earning the medal in World War II. But the town harbors an ugly secret--and will go to any lengths to keep it in director John Sturges's taut drama. Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin co-star.

Friday Night Film Series

Lonely Are the Brave

February 17, 2012

6:30 P.M.

Kirk Douglas makes a lasting impression as Jack Burns--one of a dying breed, the American cowboy--in this modern-day Western that finds Burns purposely landing in jail to spring a friend (Michael Kane)...but discovering that he doesn't want to be sprung. Burns then busts out alone, with the town sheriff (Walter Matthau) pursuing the escapee in a chase that pits man and horse against man and technology. Carroll O'Connor also stars.

Friday Night Film Series

The Bravados

February 10, 2012

6:30 P.M.

Once-upstanding rancher Jim Douglas (Gregory Peck) is relentless as he tracks the four men (Lee Van Cleef, Albert Salmi, Stephen Boyd and Henry Silva) who raped and murdered his wife. Entering a town, he discovers the men have been captured and will be hanged the next day. But the gang escapes with a hostage , and Douglas (with a posse in tow) must trail them again. Joan Collins co-stars. Henry King directs.