GREENE – Filmmaker Charles Hartman will present his film,” Route 66 – Part II,” at the Araxine Wilkins Sawyer Memorial, 371 Sawyer Road, at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11, and at 2 and 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 12. Admission is free and the doors will open one hour before shows.

Hartman has been taking photos almost as long as he has had the desire to travel the world. He began his film career while still in high school – documenting tours of the school band on 8mm film. He also made a number of school movies. Before he turned professional, he received a master’s degree in history at the University of Indiana and entered teaching.

He turned out a number of school films, continuing to travel and establishing himself as a freelance writer and photographer with national bylines to his credit.

Hartman’s subsequent entrée into travel and adventure film production came easily and naturally.

A resident of his adopted Colorado, he is an avid high-country sailor, hiker, climber and cyclist – recently completing a 4,200-mile bicycle tour of America with his son.

There is a “Romance of the Road,” particularly with Route 66 and the audience will have a chance to share that love of travel adventure.

“When we made our first film on Route 66, we thought it would soon be faded away and gone forever. It had been decommissioned,” Hartman said, “and we figured we were tracing the remains of a historic highway that would soon be just a memory.”

“But this time, we were delighted to find, the old road has shown an amazing refusal to die away. With the growth of a national interest in historic preservation came an act of Congress, the National Historic Highway Act, to designate a few of our nation’s old roads as ‘historically significant.’ And Route 66, as our single most famous 20th century highway, led the way. There is a ‘Romance of the Road,’ particularly this road.”

For more information, contact the Sawyer Foundation at 946-5311 or visit http://ourworld.cs.com/sawyerfoundation.