Bring a blanket and a picnic and spread out on the turf behind the Old Stone House to watch Harold Lloyd’s Shy Girl on Wednesday night at 8:30 PM. Lloyd is surely one of the silent film masters, right up there with Keaton and Chaplin. He’s the guy who did the stunt hanging off the clock. It’s a very famous image (see above).

According to good old Wikipedia: Harold Meadows (Lloyd), who works as a tailor’s apprentice for his uncle in the small town of Little Bend, California and is so shy around women that he stutters and can barely speak (to stop his stuttering, his uncle has to blow a whistle). From his fantasies, he writes a “how to” book for young men entitled “The Secret of Making Love” (detailing how to woo different types of young women, such as “the vampire” and “the flapper”, in scenes that parodied other popular films of the time) and takes it to a publisher in Los Angeles by train…

It all sounds so fun.