Period piece has contemporary message
September 2, 2020
In the early morning of Aug. 27, in-the-know Woodstock residents gathered at Lake and Kimball avenues to take in an odd spectacle – the Pace bus stop outside the city’s Recreation Center had been covered over to look like a wooden shed, a large painted billboard advertised a pocket-change-priced diner, Gavers Towing sported a bright […]
Two women left disappointed from Woodstock Classic Cinemas Theatre after they discovered the movie promoted in the marquee, “Carmen Jones,” wasn’t really being shown. As it turned out, that 1954 film starring Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte was just part of the makeover along Main Street to prepare for shooting of scenes for an HBO […]
Larry Lough is editor of The Independent and reports local news.
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