GREENE – Fran Reidelberger will narrate his film, “Bavaria and the Black Forest,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6, and 2 and 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7, at the Sawyer Memorial, 371 Sawyer Road.

Reidelberger has been chasing mountains to see what’s on the other side since his childhood days in Nashville, Ill. He was a schoolboy basketball player and says his prime motivation was the opportunity to travel.

His major studies were history and journalism at Merrimack College in North Andover, Mass., and Central Michigan University. The U.S. Navy gave him an opportunity to continue his travels.

Reidelberger was stationed at Pearl harbor for two years, and it was there that he began a 14-year career in daily newspaper work. He started as a cub reporter for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and ended as editor of the Decatur Illinois Herald and Review. He won a number of awards for writing, editing, newspaper design and creative use of news photos.

Reidelberger is married to the former Brooke Metcalf, daughter of the late James W. Metcalf, travel film producer and lecturer. Brooke was a magazine photographer and travel consultant. Together the Reidelbergers joined the travelogue profession in 1977.

Reidelberger, who gives the live lecture presentations of the films, appears regularly on major travel lecture platforms, including the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C., and Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, Pa.

The Reidelbergers make their home in Grayling, Mich.

“Bavaria and the Black Forest” will take the audience to many cities and towns, including Rothenburg, a preserved medieval walled village and home to carved Nutcrackers; Wurzburg, city of churches, the Residenz, beer steins and white wine; and Frankfurt, the arrival city for most North American visitors with a zoo and botanical gardens and a center for touring Mainz and the Gutenberg Museum, Hanau and the Brothers Grimm, Wiesbaden with its strong U.S. military presence.

The trip will continue to Baden-Baden, ancient health resort town; Ulm, the birthplace of Albert Einstein and site of Europe’s tallest cathedral spire; Triberg, wood carving, Black Forest pastries, cuckoo clocks and Germany’s highest waterfall; and Upper Bavaria, misty mountains, cheese-making, and annual “cow festival” and the sport of hang gliding.

Springtime in Bavaria will show wildflowers and a May Pole Festival in the village of Unterwosscn and a visit to Ludwig’s Palace in the Herrenchiemsee; Berchtesgaden, for mountain scenery, a cruise on Lake Konigsee and a visit to Hitler’s infamous Eagle’s Nest.

Travelers will go to Dachau, pretty village with an artist flair but forever linked with the Nazi’s first concentration camp on the edge of town, and Munich, the 100-year-old glockenspiel in the Marienplatz, Olympic stadium and park, Nymphenburg Palace, art museums, outdoor food market, beer-making, Bavaria’s sausages and the Oktoberfest.

Admission is free and doors open one hour before the show. For more information, call 946-5311. or http://ourworld.cs.com/sawyerfoundation.