Library lawn a busy place

SALISBURY — Craig Pecchia (who is an art teacher at the Indian Mountain School and also a professional set designer) designed and built what looks like a 10-foot-tall stack of books for the lawn of the Scoville Memorial Library. 

The wood sculpture will mark the library’s progress on its new fundraising effort, called Campaign to Connect. 

Funds raised through the campaign will help pay for renovations that will connect the Wardell Community Room (which is now entered through the back of the building) with the main library; upgrades to the library’s interior; and the creation of a new Children’s Library and Garden. 

The Library is working with Poesis Design of Salisbury and Burlington Construction of Torrington on this $1 million project ($700,000 has already been raised).

Pecchia made the stack out of ACX plywood, acrylics and charcoal. He installed it on Friday morning, Aug. 28. The day before, there had been artistic activity of a different sort on the library lawn. A documentary film crew was shooting footage of the telephone pole there. 

The film is called “Beyond Barriers,” said library Director Claudia Cayne. It is being made by a production company in Brooklyn. A location scout for the company had photographed the pole and it was chosen as the best for what they wanted to get. 

“They’d been driving around looking for a pole and photographing poles, and they loved that pole,” Cayne said, confessing that she was somewhat mystified by the attractions of that pole.