GREENE – Filmmaker Charles Hartman will narrate his film, “Route 66 – A Road to Remember,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 20, and 2 and 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 21, at the Sawyer Memorial, 371 Sawyer Road.

Hartman has been taking photos almost as long as he has had the desire to travel. He began his film career while still in high school – documenting tours of the school band on 8 mm 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 many national bylines to his credit. Hartman’s subsequent entree into travel and adventure film production came easily and naturally.

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

Fifty years have passed and Hartman is on the road again – this time as a filmmaker in search of the old Route 66. “You have to search for it,” he said, “because it’s gone now since the decision to decommission the route, and the removal of its fabled double digit signs, in the 1970s and early 1980s.”

The road began at Chicago’s Grant Park, beside Lake Michigan. It traveled through the “Land of Lincoln” and across the Mississippi River at St. Louis, through the Ozarks, Springfield and Joplin, Mo., a corner of Kansas and Tulsa and Oklahoma City. It continued across the Texas Panhandle to Amarillo into New Mexico, on to Santa Fe, Albuquerque and Gallup.

It went through Arizona, the Painted Desert and the Petrified Forest, into California, the Mohave Desert, then Barstow and over the mountains to San Bernardino, the Valley of Los Angeles, and the end of the road beside the Pacific Ocean at the Santa Monica Pier.

Admission is free. Call 946-5311 for more information or visit the Web site at http://ourworld.cs.com/sawyerfoundation.