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Provincetown :: Thursday, September 2nd 2010
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Kelly's Corner
''Safe Harbor Provincetown'' at the Library
By Jan Kelly
June 25th, 2009
The Provincetown Public Library celebrated its 5th Annual Heritage Day, with a premiere viewing of Safe Harbor Provincetown – A Community Responds to AIDS: The First Decade, 1983-1993.
| If you missed the first day viewings, you may see the film at your convenience at the library on the first floor at the kiosk in front of the Marc Jacobs Reading Room. |
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Mick Rudd, chair of the library’s Board of Trustees opened the program with thanks to Mary Nicolini, Assistant Library Director, for leading the way through the project, to Deborah De Jonker Berry, Library Director, “for always being behind the scenes,” to the Script Committee of the AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod (ASGCC) and their Executive Director, Laura Thornton, and to Script Manager Bruce de St. Croix. The film was produced by Catherine Russo.
The film is 20 minutes long and well done. It was wonderful and shocking to see the faces and gravestones of those we lost in that decade. Such intelligent, talented young men who gave so much to Provincetown and those who “arrived” because no one else would have them.
Clips of Alice Foley, town nurse and founder of the ASGCC, the nurse practitioners and doctors who struggled with learning of a disease with no history, no former examples, the locals who volunteered to cook, to knit, to nurse, and to pray innocently and unquestioning, only giving, are shown as supportive witnesses.
The question and answer session with the Script Committee was instructive and hopeful. The strongest point was to educate the youth, to put the knowledge out in all forms of communication.
If you missed the first day viewings, you may see the film at your convenience at the library on the first floor at the kiosk in front of the Marc Jacobs Reading Room – you will be proud of your community and effected by its contents.
I discussed the film with Jim Rann, member of the Script Committee and spokesperson in the film. “Provincetown was a great model for other communities. Provincetown takes care of its own. We had the courage to deal with and take care of the problem. Our response was unusual; it was to take care of each other. You couldn’t live here without knowing someone who was affected, your waiter, a clerk in a store. Town women knitted afghans. Provincetown had the highest per capita population in the country, higher than San Francisco or New York. We’re lucky to have Catherine Russo, an accomplished documentarian to record this history before it is lost.”
Jim Rann was the owner of Waves Hair Salon for 27 years. He paints full-time now and has the Jim Rann - Peter McDonough Gallery at the Whalers Wharf. Both Jim and Peter are prepared for the library’s next event, the “wet-dry” paint off auction to be held at the library on July 11th. All artists are invited to create their interpretation of the library building. Wet works will be done that day, a view of the library from any stance; a boat, a plane, a rooftop or Commercial Street. They will be due at 3 p.m. on the 11th to be auctioned off live, 5 - 7 p.m. by Jim Bakker, Executive Director of the Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum. The Dry Auction will be of previously created works shown at a silent auction, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m., with a $100 minimum bid. It is a 50/50 auction, half for the artist, half to the Library Building Fund, but the artist may donate 100 percent.
Peter McDonough creates studies in pictorialism. With an 8x10 camera, long exposure, the intent is to have a photograph look like a painting. McDonough’s offering to the auction is a silver gelatin print of the library, taken from the beach. Jim Rann has done an oil painting of the same view.
Regular business at the library...
Renee Gibbs-Brady, children’s Library along with 12-year veteran, Linda Schlechter, will be running our “Born to Read” program for children 5 years and under – the sessions will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays 9 - 11 a.m., through Labor Day.
What could be better than a classroom on the beach with free parking? The program is funded with a grant from Comcast.
Friends of the Provincetown Library will be running book sales “below decks” in the basement on the following dates: July 22 - 24; August 26-28; September 23 - 25; and Oct. 14 - 16.
Friends of the Provincetown Library funds items not included in the budget and the children’s programs – become a member and help out, it’s easy.
The library is located at 356 Commercial Street, Provincetown and offers computer use, CDs, DVDs, quiet reading spaces, copying machine and so much more, all with competent professionals in charge. Information and schedules available at ptownlib.com. Also visit Provincetownmagazine.net for more articles.
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