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Doug Schroeder Display

Throughout the month of March, the library is displaying a set of models meticulously hand-crafted by Warren resident Doug Schroeder. Doug's collection features Campbell-scale models of industrial structures, each piece painstakingly assembled, glued, and then stained. The assembly of the structures alone involves a multi-step process that can take a great deal of time per piece.

The models include a wooden-chair factory, engine house, seed & grocery warehouse, fishing pier, and several other pieces, each of which testifies to surgical precision and patience. Doug has been assembling such models for years; the pieces we have borrowed for this month's display represent only a part of his entire collection.
 

 

 

 

Submitted by Joanna Hynd

From Joanna Hynd

"A Mighty Wind," presented by the library and Saltwater Film Society on March 28

On March 28^th, 6:30 p.m., the library and Saltwater Film Society will host a showing of “A Mighty Wind.” Please join us in room 200 in the Thomaston Academy Building at 60 Main St for this fun and folksy film event. Free refreshments will be served. No entrance fee required although donations are gratefully accepted. Public parking and elevator access are located behind the Academy.

“A Mighty Wind” is a hilarious mockumentary about a folk music reunion concert in which three folk bands must reunite for a television performance for the first time in decades. It was directed and co-written by Christopher Guest.

There’s Mitch and Mickey, who were the epitome of young love until their partnership was torn apart by heartbreak; classic troubadours, The Folksmen, whose records were endlessly entertaining for anyone able to punch a hole in the center to play them; and The New Main  Street Singers, the most meticulously color-coordinated neuftet ever to hit an amusement park. Now for one night only in New York City’s Town Hall, these three groups will reunite and gather together to celebrate the music that almost made them famous.

Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer—who previously teamed up for “This is Spinal Tap”—not only perform together as The Folksmen, but composed most of the songs performed onscreen.