Zalewski to capture spirit of van Gogh.

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LEOMINSTER -- The scene is simple: two chairs and a table, a baguette in a country basket, a bottle of peasant wine, two glasses and a corncob pipe in a cafe in Auvers, France. The year is 1890, the day of Vincent van Gogh's funeral. Joseph Roulin, the Postman, comes forward and sits in one of the chairs. For several seconds he poses, silent and still, the embodiment of van Gogh's painting of Roulin in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Then, the portrait comes to life!

For the next hour, acclaimed actor and returning library favorite Ted Zalewski as the Postman captures the spirit of van Gogh the man and the essence of van Gogh the artist. The program will be held at 2 p.m. April 22 in the Community Room of the Leominster Public Library.

The presentation, sponsored by the Friends of the Leominster Library, is filled with humor, passion and joie de vivre. Roulin the postman is a "counterpoint'' character to Vincent, the creative artist. Married with three children, the older, robust Joseph is rooted and stable. Vincent, solitary and vulnerable, leads a peripatetic artistic life. Yet the two men find a great, enduring friendship. While in Arles, Van Gogh creates 25 pictures of the Roulin family.

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