GREENE — Fran Reidelberger will present his film “Colorful Mexico,” featuring the Chihuahua area and the famous Copper Canyon train, Baja Peninsula and the Golden Beaches along Mexico’s west coast from Puerto Vallarta to Acapulco, on Friday, Oct. 8, at Araxine Wilkins Sawyer Memorial.

Puerto Vallarta is a magnet for North Americans seeking winter warmth with modern amenities, great beaches and a variety of activities. Barra de Navidad is home base for cruising yachters and thrill-seeking surfers.

Reidelberger will also take film viewers to Melaque, which has one of the best beaches in all of Mexico; La Manzanilla; Zihuatanejo; Ixtapa; Taxco; Morelia; Capula; Uruapan; Paracutin; Paracho; Guanajuato; and Zacatecas, Mexico’s high desert, known for more than 1,000 species of cactus and desert plants.

As a schoolboy basketball player in Nashville, Ill., Reidelberger said his prime motivation was not the roar of the crowd, but 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 travel from coast to coast in the United States and throughout the Far East. He was also stationed at Pearl Harbor for two years, where he began a 14-year career in daily newspaper work.

Reidelberger is married to Brooke Metcalf, daughter of the late James W. Metcalf, a travel film producer and lecturer. Together, the Reidelbergers, who make their home in Grayling, Mich., joined the travelogue profession in 1977.

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

“Colorful Mexico” will be shown at 2 and 7 p.m. Admission is free. Sawyer Memorial is at 371 Sawyer Road. For more information, call 946-5311 or visit www.sawyer-foundation.com.