Friday Night Film Series

Small Change

August 3, 2012

7 P.M.

A boy finds a few coins in an amusement park. A shy girl sneaks a glance at the even shyer boy she fancies. They are small events, but not for a child. "A child invents life." says Francois Truffaut, who brilliantly captures the joys, pain, and wonder of childhood in Small Change.

Sunday July 29^th at 2pm, Gwen Southgate,  a Cushing summer resident,  will be reading from her memoir, Coin Street Chronicles: Memoirs of an Evacuee from London's Old South Bank.

Her book begins in January 1929 when she was born on the south bank of the Thames. In this memoir, Gwen Southgate weaves the story of a vanished time, place, and way of life in an area that is now a cultural showcase known as the South Bank. Though Coin Street Chronicles is a personal story of one youngster's experiences in the 1930s and 40s, it is part of a broader tapestry, one which portrays the sweep of life in Britain at that time as seen through the eyes of a girl for whom it was the backdrop of childhood. Southgate brings the characters to life and paints vivid scenes that touch all of the senses.

Gwen Southgate has kept herself out of mischief bringing up four children, a husband, ten grandchildren, innumerable physics students and endeavoring to set the political world to rights.

This event will be held at the Thomaston Public Library on 60 Main St. in room 204 of the Thomaston Academy Building. The doors will open at 1:30pm. This event is free and open to the public!

 Authors and Artists Series July 25 at 7pm!

Margie and Bob Moskowitz will be presenting a slide/lecture about their work at the Thomaston Public Library on Wednesday July 25  at 7 PM. The presentation will take place in Room 204 of the Academy building at 60 Main Street. The program is the third of this year's  Friends of the Thomaston Library series, Artists and Authors Among Us.

Artists Bob and Marjorie Moskowitz met in graduate school at Washington University in St. Louis in 1977 and married in 1980.  They exhibited together the first time in 1978 at St. Louis Community College at Forrest Park, again in 1986 at the Seghi Galley and recently with separate solo shows at the Gresham Gallery at San Bernardino City College. They also had simultaneous solo exhibitions in Ventura in 2009 at Gallery II and the New Media Gallery respectively.  Margie’s post graduate work was experimental and abstract as she worked with found materials as well as manufactured one’s creating wall pieces, sometimes quite large, that were exhibited in galleries in St. Louis, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and Kansas City.  She began doing landscapes during a trip to Italy in 2000.  She taught for 11 years at colleges in Missouri and Illinois and at the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.  Bob’s work has always been figurative and he did portrait commissions for years in the mid-west and on both coasts.  They moved to Ventura County in 1998 when Bob took a position at Ventura College where he has been the department chair for past ten years. Margie and Bob are currently represented by Bleicher Gallery in Santa Monica and Los Angeles where Bob had a solo exhibition in 2010.  Marjorie had had recent solo exhibitions at University of Maine Augusta and at the Harbor Square Gallery in Rockland. Their work is represented in many public and private collections. They have had a house in Sidney for the past five years and spend their summers painting in Maine. In 2009 Ventura Life magazine did a feature article, “Sharing the Silence” on the work created in their shared barn studio. They both continue to participate in group exhibitions, Margie recently at the Haggin Museum and the CCAA Museum. Bob exhibited at the CCAA Museum and also in the invitational, “Skin Deep:  Artists Examine the Nude” in Ventura.  Margie is represented in Maine by the Wiscasset Bay Gallery and by the Blue Hill Bay Gallery.



Following the presentation there will be light refreshments for all in attendance.

The Series, Artists and Authors Among Us,  is free to the public but donations to the library will be greatly appreciated. For further information, please contact the library at 354-2453

July Sunday Author Series!

Sunday, July 15th at 2pm Steven Powell is giving a reading from his debut novel, Patch Scratching.

During his talk, Powell will be reading from his work, Patch Scratching, a novel based in the mid-coast area; At the tender age of five, Jed is abandoned by his mother in his father’s hometown – a father he’s never met, and who no longer lives in the town. Jed is befriended by Deb, the last person who should have had to do so. But with the help of Jed’s grandfather, Deb raises the boy as best she can. Then, just as Jed is finding his way, his place in the world, life and the past come back to challenge him yet again.

Powell is a life long resident of mid-coast Maine, where he and his wife, Linda, live today. They have two adult children, Amanda and Alex. Patch Scratching is his first novel.

Second Presentation for the Authors & Artists Series!

On Wednesday, July 18 at 7pm, Björn Runquist will be speaking about his work at the library.

Runquist was born in Stockholm, Sweden, grew up in New York and spent his high school years in France before returning to the U.S. for college. Upon completion of college he moved to London, England. After four years in London and receiving a Master's degree from Kings College, University, of London, he returned to the U.S. and makes his home in Connecticut and, for the last 31 years, in Clark Island, Me.