Fun with cigar boxes at Hunt

Noah Sher came dressed as Groucho Marx for the “Cigar Box Tradition Redux” event at Hunt Library.

Patrick L. Sullivan

Fun with cigar boxes at Hunt

FALLS VILLAGE — A whacking big crowd showed up for “Cigar Box Tradition Redux,” a show of art created using the cigar box as a basis, at the David M. Hunt Library Saturday, Aug. 31.

Noah Sher, decked out in Groucho Marx glasses, circulated in the crowd, offering chocolate-tipped pretzels from a cigar box.(The late Groucho Marx was a noted cigar smoker.)

Vance Cannon swapped his standard guitar for one of David Reed’s cigar box guitars.

Cannon, acting on a recommendation from the artist, tuned the three-string electric instrument to GDG, and commenced to improvise blues licks using a copper slide.

The show runs through September 20, and organizer Lilly Woodworth is holding a cigar box collage workshop this Saturday, Sept. 7, 10 a.m. to noon.

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