SULPHUR SPRINGS -- The 45-minute documentary film, "Four Uniforms -- The Marvin Day Story," will premiere the evening of Friday, June 5, as a benefit for the Sulphur Springs Community Museum. All proceeds will go toward the cost of fixing the heating and air conditioning unit for the museum building.
The building is located in the old Burger Bath House at the edge of the city park along Arkansas Highway 59 North.
With the help and resolve of Joyce Young, museum commissioner, to produce the film, Marvin Day's son, Steven, and his daughter, Michele McCaughey, decided to fund it. David Barber agreed to host the film at Barber Auction House in Sulphur Springs, starting at 7:30 p.m. June 5, with admission free. While admission is free, the museum is accepting donations.
Museum commissioners will serve moviegoers free coffee, ice tea and a dessert for attending the event and supporting the museum.
Along with Marvin Day and his son and daughter, attendees can hob-knob with the film's director and editor, Wilson Lanue, and photographer, Cameron Young.
Aubrey Young-Wood will narrate the film. A question-and-answer period will follow this film's premiere showing.
Like many men and women who served and now serve in the U.S. military, Marvin Day is a living hero. After growing up at the farm next to Sibley Manufacturing near Sulphur Springs, in 1939, he joined President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal as a Civilian Conservation Corps member. While working there, he helped farmers near Berryville fight forest fires and create farm irrigation systems.
In 1942, he signed up to join the U.S. Marines at a recruiting office in Bentonville. Like other WWII marines, he earned his stripes while part of the invading force on beachheads in the Marshal Islands, Saipan, Tinian and Okinawa, all as part of an elite force of Marine Raiders.
He joined the Army at war's end and retired as a first sergeant in 1964.
The museum's commissioners invite area residents to come out Friday evening, to come early, watch the movie and support the community and its museum.
"We welcome all, and encourage out-of-town guests to come and enjoy hospitality that only people from a small town like Sulphur Springs can provide," commissioners said.
General News on 05/27/2015