For one night only, Sunday, Feb. 12 at 7 p.m.,  Lincoln Theater will screen a special showing of the film “Newtown,” a documentary by Kim A. Sndyer.  In the aftermath of the worst school shooting in history, the traumatized community of Newtown, Connecticut finds a new sense of purpose in this intimate story of resilience as told by those whose lives were changed forever. 

A proud Labor Day parade floats by as hundreds of parents and children line the streets in the last gasps of summer. It is made up of local leadership, a brigade of first responders, the town priest, a high school marching band and a magic school bus in a town that could be Anytown, America. Yet this isn’t any town. It’s Newtown.

Twenty months after the horrific mass shooting in Newtown, that took the lives of 20 elementary school children and six educators on Dec. 14, 2012, the small New England town is a complex psychological web of tragic aftermath in the wake of yet another act of mass killing at the hands of a disturbed young gunman. Kim A. Snyder’s searing ‘Newtown’ documents a traumatized community fractured by grief and driven toward a sense of purpose.

There are no easy answers, no words of compassion or reassurance that can bring back those who lost their lives during the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Instead, Snyder gives us exclusive access into the lives and homes of those who remain, all of whom have been indelibly changed by the events. Each person, be it a parent, school nurse, or state police officer, tries in their own way to make sense of their loss. Newtown bears witness to their profound grief and allows it to reverberate within our collective conscience - exploring what happens to a community after it becomes the epicenter of a national discussion, and what is still left to cope with after the cameras leave.  

Tickets,  $8/Adults, $6/LT Members and will be available that Sunday evening starting at 6.  The film run 90 minutes and is not suitable for young children. The theater is located at 2 Theater Street in Damariscotta.

Additional information can be found by visiting the theater’s website, www.lcct.org. There is a lot to ponder. There is a lot to marvel at when confronted with the resilience of the human spirit.