You have to love Alderman and Hyde Center director John Rice’s sense of adventure: Friday’s free outdoor movie at the Hyde Center Playground will be the Alfred Hitchcock classic ‘The Birds.’ The movie starts at dusk, if my memory serves me right, the birds arrive in the first 15 minutes or so.
And before the movie will be a free concert featuring the big band sounds of the Soft Touch Dance Band.
Anyone know the details of the new CPA rules?
There’s a good article here. But I can’t for the life of me figure out how that’s related to “The Birds”?
Despite the value of these changes, the CPA was sold to us as a trust situation not subject to legislative changes. I won’t be fooled again. Even Hitchcock would be insulted, me thinks
Actually Hoss, “The Birds” is believed to have been inspired by German air assaults that haunted Hitchcock throughout his life. I consider myself fortunate to not have lived during that era, but I can tell you that movie scared the heck out of me as a kid.
A bit of Newton history others may not be familiar with…
Back in the day, Norumbega Park used to occasionally string a movie screen across the Charles River, and people could watch a film from their canoe.
Mike Striar didn’t tell us the rather specific reason the screen was on the Charles. Anyone?
@Hoss – I thought he did – so people could watch from their canoes. Did you every see those old photos with hundreds of canoes on the river?
There’s a reason
Spill it Hoss! Inquiring minds want to know!
One of the historical segments on NewTV suggested that since public affection (i.e., kissing) was prohibited, an after dark canoe with a date was a perfect way around the law.
– the predecessor to the Drive-In movie.