At
the University of Rhode Island’s 132nd Commencement on Saturday
and Sunday, May 19-20, 2018, about 3,300 undergraduate and 750
graduate students became the University’s newest alumni.
Congratulations to Patrick Regan Marie of Northwood who received
a Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering.
It’s The Fabulous Fifties On LRPA After Dark
During The Month Of July
This Weekend’s Feature: 1957’s “Attack Of The Crab Monsters”
Throughout July, Lakes Region Public Access Television has
featured four films from the fabulous 50’s, a decade known in
cinema for many things, including the end of the Hollywood
musical; the “Red Scare” and blacklisting of screenwriters; film
noir standouts; and Cold War/atomic panic. Join us each Friday
and Saturday night at 10:30 p.m. as we salute this remarkable
decade. This weekend (July 27 & 28), we close out the Fabulous
Fifties with our presentation of Roger Corman’s 1957 science
fantasy gem, Attack of the Crab Monsters, starring Richard
Garland, Pamela Duncan and Russell Johnson (best known as The
Professor from TV’s Gilligan’s Island). As the film opens, a
team of scientists lands on a small Pacific island to study the
effects of nuclear radiation on sea life. An earlier scientific
expedition to this remote atoll mysteriously disappeared, so
this new group is also hoping to find evidence of what may have
happened to their predecessors. The scientists have been
escorted to this island on a Navy seaplane. As the plane takes
off back to the mainland, it explodes in mid-air, effectively
stranding the team. Expedition members soon begin to realize
that things are very wrong on this island, including
earthquakes, landslides, killer earthworms, disembodied voices –
and giant, mutated, super-intelligent crabs! Will any of them
survive? Attack of the Crab Monsters is a cult classic, and true
to Roger Corman’s heart, cost only $70,000 to produce but
grossed more than $1 million at the box office. In Corman’s own
words: “You always had the feeling when watching [this] movie
that something, anything, was about to happen … I think that
this construction, plus the fact that the creature was big and
ugly, won audiences.” Who can resist? Grab your popcorn and meet
after dark for this schlocky goodness from our cinematic past.
Keep your eyes peeled for more movie treats this fall, including
a “Silent September” (silent movie greats each weekend) and
LRPA’s 3rd Annual “Shocktober” Festival in October!
Have you tuned in to “Libraries Rock” this summer at the
Chesley Memorial Library? You can rock on with the Friends
of the Northwood Libraries at the Bean Hole Bash on Saturday,
July 28! The Friends will be at the Congregational
Church’s Fellowship Hall making felted rock monsters from 9:00am
until 1:00pm. Stop by and make your own felted rock
monster. Cute monsters, scary monsters… the possibilities
are endless!
