![]() ![]() “Need a ride, young fella?” Koren asks Dillard, when he sees him on the road.ĭillard climbs in for the last stretch of his trip to his family farm. Henry plays a young soldier, Calvin Dillard, who’s headed home from boot camp on a two-day pass to marry his sweetheart. Koren’s character collects scrap metal in his 1931 Ford AA. Their encounter takes place in the front seat of a truck. Koren appears in a scene with the filmmaker's son, Henry Woodard. “I knew Ed would be great,” said Woodard, 70, who wrote and directed the movie. The cartoonist, who died on April 14 at 87 at his home in Brookfield, has a cameo in Woodard’s recently released World War II drama, The Farm Boy. This time, Koren said yes.Īnd so Koren, who published his first cartoon in the New Yorker in his twenties, acted in his first movie in his eighties. More than two years later, Woodard connected with Koren through a mutual friend, comic artist Stephen Bissette, to ask him again about a possible movie role. “Well,” Woodard told him, “keep it in mind.” “I said, ‘Ed, you look good! Wanna be in a movie?’” Woodard recalled. Though Woodard knew Koren only through his work, he approached the artist that night in Burlington. At the show, he recognized a fellow audience member: cartoonist Ed Koren. In spring 2016, filmmaker George Woodard attended a film festival screening of the 1916 silent film A Vermont Romance. Henry Woodard, left, and Ed Koren in "The Farm Boy".For Celleri, it will be sometime in the next few weeks, he said.įollowing a blessing outside the homes early Saturday in front of a small crowd of Habitat for Humanity McHenry County staff and volunteers, speeches generated tears, laughs and applause. (Yadira Sanchez Olson)Ĭorbin and Shelton are scheduled to close on their home Tuesday. Michael Shelton and his fiancé Amanda Corbin take selfies with their three children, Kaylee Shelton, 13 Brandon Shelton, 11 and Ava Shelton, 3, outside their new Habitat for Humanity home in Wonder Lake on Saturday, May 13. Michael Shelton, 35, and his fiancé, Amanda Corbin, 31, and their three children, Ava, 11-year-old Brandon and 13-year-old Kaylee Shelton will live next door to 71-year-old Army veteran Wilson Celleri. ![]() The event welcomed two families who will be living side by side in a newly built duplex at the Meadows of West Bay community. Sports Betting Guide (Opens in new window)īarefoot and on her tippy toes, 3-year-old Ava Shelton twirled her stuffed white bunny round and round inside the unfurnished house that will be her family’s first new home, at a celebration ceremony by Habitat for Humanity Saturday in Wonder Lake.Friday Night Drive podcast (Opens in new window).Woodstock North High School football (Opens in new window).Woodstock High School football (Opens in new window).Richmond-Burton High School football (Opens in new window).Prairie Ridge High School football (Opens in new window).McHenry High School football (Opens in new window).Marian Central Catholic football (Opens in new window).Marengo High School football (Opens in new window).Johnsburg High School football (Opens in new window).Jacobs High School football (Opens in new window).Huntley High School football (Opens in new window).Harvard High School football (Opens in new window).Hampshire High School football (Opens in new window).Dundee-Crown High School football (Opens in new window).Crystal Lake South High School football (Opens in new window).Crystal Lake Central High School football (Opens in new window).Cary-Grove High School football (Opens in new window).Alden-Hebron High School football (Opens in new window).Woodstock North High School sports (Opens in new window).Woodstock High School sports (Opens in new window).Richmond-Burton High School sports (Opens in new window). ![]()
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