Because of recent flooding, the screening of Vermont filmmaker George Woodard's recently released 'The Farm Boy' at the Shrewsbury Library has been postponed to Sunday July 23rd at 2pm.

Filmed entirely in Vermont, the movie is loosely based on Woodard's father, depicting the coming of age of a young man from a Vermont hill farm thrust into the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium. There is no admission charge, donations are welcomed.

The film features Woodard's 30-year-old son, Henry, a landscaper and sugar maker in real life. It was mainly shot on Woodard's 200-acre farm in Waterbury Center. Woodard, who will attend the Shrewsbury event along with the film's producer Joan Brace O'Neal, joked that filming in Belgium was "too far to get back in time for milking."

The Farm Boy, shot in black-and-white, evokes a pastoral Vermont as Henry's character, serviceman Calvin Dillard, falls in love with a young woman he meets on his milk route. The second half of the two-hour-plus movie is set during the Battle of the Bulge in winter 1944.

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