Oct. 10: National Pierogi Day at Our Lady of Czestochowa Church
TURNERS FALLS — Our Lady of Czestochowa Church, 84 K St., will celebrate National Pierogi Day with a pierogi sale on Saturday, Oct. 10, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The pierogi are made by the St. Hyacinth Pierogi Makers, who will be selling cheese, sauerkraut, and jumbo potato and cheese pierogis in frozen packages of six for $12. Additionally, the church’s kitchen will serve a polish plate for $15 that includes smoked kielbasa, potato and cheese pierogi, mushroom barley, marinated beets, horseradish coleslaw and rye bread.
During the pierogi sale, there will be Polish baked goods available to buy as well, with paczki, or Polish doughnuts, and chrusciki, called Polish angel wings, on the menu.
‘Far Out’ documentary returns to Shea Theater
TURNERS FALLS — The documentary “Far Out: Life On & After the Commune,” co-produced by Charles Light of Guilford, Vermont, and Dan Keller of Wendell, will be shown at the Shea Theater Arts Center, 71 Avenue A.
The film screening is slated for Thursday, Oct. 22, at 7:30 p.m. Doors open at 7 p.m.
The 85-minute film tells the story of a left-wing faction fight in the summer of 1968, when a group of radical journalists from Liberation News Service (LNS) left New York City for life in the country. They founded two communes, with one at Packer Corners in Guilford, Vermont, and the other on 60 acres in Montague.
When the rural winter set in and the ink in their printing press froze in the barn, thus dashing their hopes of continuing the news service, commune members turned their attention to trying to farm the land, with help from neighbors. These commune members helped influence the “back-to-the-land” farming movement, and members of the Montague commune became involved in the struggle to keep a twin nuclear power plant from being built close by at the Montague Plains.
For more details or to purchase tickets, visit events.leapevents.com/event/farout-film26.