Summer Fest (for kids in Winter)

Tropical Make and Shake Music with Margo Stiassni
for ages 6 and up

Friday, January 27th
4 to 6 PM
Children's Library


Join us Friday afternoon to make musical instruments from recycled materials with guest presenter Margo Stiassni. We'll make drums, rain sticks, kazoos and bongos, then learn some tropical songs to play on them! Please bring any materials you think would make a good instrument with you and make sure little ones under 6 are accompanied by an adult caregiver.

Snow date: February 3rd, 4 to 6 PM

Friday Night Film Series

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

January 20

6:30 P.M.

Wrapped in a classic tale of adventure, this Academy Award winner by John Huston follows a trio of gold prospectors who set out to strike it rich and agree to split the take...until paranoia and greed consumes one of them. Delivering superb performances as the three miners are Humphrey Bogart, Tim Hold and Walter Huston, who won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar while son John scored statuettes for his direction and screenplay.

Special Event

The 4th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Food Drive

January 16-February 29

Diane Smith, organizer of this annual event, has announced the sponsors, dates and collection points for this year's food drive.

In order to replenish the depleted supplies of our local food bank, the following organizations have gathered together to encourage their memberships to help to re-stock the food bank: the Thomaston and Cushing Public Libraries, The Thomaston and Cushing Historical Societies, the General Henry Knox Museum, the Thomaston Monday Morning Meeting and Organizing for America.

Now that the holidays are over, it is important to remember that those in need continue to make use of such valuable resources as our food bank. Since our economy is suffering, more folks than usual need to make use of this resource, making it more important than ever to keep the food bank stocked.

All non-perishable food items are welcome. In addition, some may find it easier to make a cash donation to their particular organization with the memo indicating the money is to go to this food collection. Such donations can be used to purchase other needed items such as personal care and household supplies.

The collection points for this event are the Thomaston Public Library, the Cushing Public Library, and the Episcopal Church of St. John the Baptist in Thomaston.

Friday Night Film Series

The Maltese Falcon

January 13, 2012

6:30 P.M.

Humphrey Bogart stars as private eye Sam Spade in this Oscar-nominated noir classic that finds the sultry Miss O'Saughnessy (Mary Astor) seeking out protection from a man named Thursby. Spade's partner (Jerome Cowan) takes the case--but he winds up dead, along with Thursby. Spade's subsequent hunt for the killer leads him into a world of deception and double-crossing, as a trio of criminals searches for a priceless statue known as the Maltese Falcon.

Friday Night Film Series

Casablanca

January 6, 2012

6:30 P.M.

In this Oscar-winning classic, American expat Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) plays host to gamblers, thieves and refugees at his Moroccan nightclub during World War II...but he never expected Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman)--the woman who broke his heart--to walk through that door. Ilsa hopes that with Rick's help, she and her fugitive husband (Paul Henreid) can escape to America. But the spark that brought the lovers together still burns brightly.

It's a Wonderful Life

December 16

6:30 P.M.

It's a wonderful film. Frank Capra's inverted take on A Christmas Carol stars Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey, a good man who's spent a lifetime giving up on his dreams in order to keep life in his small town humming. When a guardian angel named Clarence finds a despondent George poised to jump off a bridge, he shows George what life would've been like had he never been born. This classic is a holiday favorite.

Friday Night Film Series

Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory

December 9

6:30 P.M.

*Due to a scheduling conflict, the Friends of the Thomaston Library are moving their Friday Night Film Night to St. John's Church, on this date only.

In this award-winning adaptation of an autobiographical story by Truman Capote, Eric Lloyd plays Buddy, who at age 7 is dumped by his parents at the home of some elderly spinster relations. Luckily for Buddy, he becomes fast friends with one of them, embarking on a series of adventures in the Depression-era rural South. Patty Duke and Piper Laurie co-star in this charmingly nostalgic tale.