Meet the Author - K. D. Mason, March 2

Plan to join us on Saturday, March 2nd at 3:00 PM for an enjoyable conversation with local author K. D. Mason, creator of the popular "Jack Beale" detective series.  Drawing on his years of experience as a restaurateur, sailor, and runner, K. D. Mason fills his books with people and places familiar to residents of the Seacoast.  Mr. Mason will read from his new book Killer Run and share a bit about his life and work as an author.  The reading is open to all ages, and is free of charge.

Academy Awards Film Festival - Week 3

Join us throughout February for our 2nd Annual Academy Awards Film Festival. We've chosen an array of classic films, including Westerns, dramas, musicals and comedies, each of which won one or more major Academy Award (Best Picture, Best Actor/Actress, Best Director). We're also trying out a new day/time for movies: Tuesday afternoon matinees. If this day/time is successful we will continue it throughout the year as a venue for classic movies!

The African Queen - Best Actor 1941, Humphrey Bogart
Not Rated (1 hour, 45 minutes)
Tuesday, February 19 @ 1 pm

In Africa during WW1, a gin-swilling riverboat owner/captain is persuaded by a strait-laced missionary to use his boat to attack an enemy warship.  Starring Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn.

Mrs. Miniver - Best Picture, 1942
Not Rated (2 hours, 14 minutes)
Thursday, February 21 @ 5:30 pm

Winner of six Academy Awards(R) including Best Picture, this memorable spirit-lifter about an idealized England that tends its prize-winning roses while confronting the terror of war struck a patriotic chord with American audiences and became 1942's #1 box-office hit. Greer Garson gives a formidable Oscar(R)-winning performance in the title role, comforting children in a bomb shelter, capturing an enemy parachutist and delivering an inspirational portrait of stiff-upper-lip British resolve. When Hitler did his worst, Mrs. Miniver did her best. Starring: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon 

The Godfather - Best Picture, 1972
Rated R (2 hours, 55 minutes)
Saturday, February 23 @ 1 pm

Popularly viewed as one of the best American films ever made, the multigenerational crime saga is a touchstone of cinema: one of the most widely imitated, quoted and lampooned movies of all time. Marlon Brando and Al Pacino star as Vito Corleone and his son, Michael, respectively.


Admission is FREE. Snacks and drinks are provided courtesy of the Friends of the Lane Memorial Library. 

Academy Awards Film Festival - Week 2

Join us throughout February for our 2nd Annual Academy Awards Film Festival. We've chosen an array of classic films, including Westerns, dramas, musicals and comedies, each of which won one or more major Academy Award (Best Picture, Best Actor/Actress, Best Director). We're also trying out a new day/time for movies: Tuesday afternoon matinees. If this day/time is successful we will continue it throughout the year as a venue for classic movies!

My Fair Lady (Best Picture 1964)
Rated G (2 hours, 52 minutes)
Tuesday, February 12 @ 1 pm

A misogynistic and snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.  Starring Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn.

An American in Paris (Best Picture 1951)
Not Rated (1 hour, 53 minutes)
Thursday, February 14 @ 5:30 pm  
♥Valentine's Day ♥

Jerry Mulligan (Gene Kelly), a struggling American painter in Paris, is "discovered" by an influential heiress with an interest in more than Jerry's art. Jerry in turn falls for Lise (Leslie Caron), a young French girl already engaged to a cabaret singer. Jerry jokes, sings and dances with his best friend, an acerbic would-be concert pianist, while romantic complications abound. Written by Scott Renshaw

The Apartment (Best Picture 1960)
Not Rated (2 hours, 5 minutes)
Saturday, February 16 @ 2 pm

A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue. Starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine and Fred MacMurray.

Admission is FREE. Snacks and drinks are provided courtesy of the Friends of the Lane Memorial Library. 

SWEETHEART TEA POSTPONED

Please note: Due to Snowstorm Nemo, the Friends of the Lane Memorial Library have postponed the Sweetheart Tea (originally planned for this Saturday, February 9th) until March 9th.  The times for the morning and afternoon sessions will remain the same.

 Please stay safe and warm while the snow flies!

Peg Duffin - February Artist reception

Please join us on Monday, February 11th at 6:30 PM for a reception and artist talk by Hampton resident Peg Duffin, whose exhibit portfolio The Seasons is on display for the month of February in our Weston Gallery.  Working primarily in watercolors, Peg has been a member of the Seacoast Art Association for over 20 years and is a founding member of the newly established Hampton Art Network.

Peg owns and operates the Art and Soul Gallery in Hampton, and offers courses in watercolor from her home in Hampton.  Her personal style has emerged over years of study under many talented artists, and viewers often comment on the sense of serenity in her works.

Light refreshments will be provided, and the reception is open to all.  

2nd Annual Academy Awards Film Festival Starts Feb. 5

Join us throughout February for our 2nd Annual Academy Awards Film Festival. We've chosen an array of classic films, including Westerns, dramas, musicals and comedies, each of which won one or more major Academy Award (Best Picture, Best Actor/Actress, Best Director). We're also trying out a new day/time for movies: Tuesday afternoon matinees. If this day/time is successful we will continue it throughout the year as a venue for classic movies!

Tuesday, February 5 at 1 pm
Gone With the Wind
Not Rated
3 hours, 44 minutes

The quintessential American epic, Gone With the Wind sweeps across the Old South, the Civil War and Reconstruction. The tale of a selfish, headstrong Southern belle who draws her strength from the land, it’s a sumptuous costume drama and a richly entertaining movie. Winner of 10 Academy Awards, starring Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard and Olivia deHavilland.

Thursday, February 7 at 5:30 pm
High Noon
Not Rated
1 hour, 25 minutes

This groundbreaking western was voted at the 33rd greatest film of all time by the AFIr (100 Years. 100 Movies). Gary Cooper won the Oscarr for Best Actor in this classic tale of a lawman who stands alone to defend a town of cowardly citizen against a gang of killers seeking revenge. In one of the greatest showdowns in cinema history, Cooper's Sheriff Will Kane stands to lose not only the town, but also his bride, Grace Kelly. The stellar cast includes Lloyd Bridges, Thomas Mitchell, Katy Jurado, Otto Kruger, Lon Chaney, Henry Morgan, Jack Elam and Lee Van Cleef. High Noon won a total of four Academy Awardsr including Best Editing, Score (Dimitri Tiomkin) and Song, "Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling", written by Tiomkin and Ned Washington and sung by Tex Ritter. High Noon also received Oscarr nominations for Best Picture (Stanley Kramer), Best Director (Fred Zinnemann) and Best Screenplay (Carl Foreman).

Admission is FREE. Snacks and drinks are provided courtesy of the Friends of the Lane Memorial Library.