The Farm Boy premiered in March of 2023 at the Hyde Park Opera House, Hyde Park, VT

The Farm Boy is a WWII era story about a young man, Calvin Dillard, who drives a milk truck for his father. He meets a girl from a neighboring farm at a barn dance. They fall in love and eventually get married but the day after their marriage Calvin is sent to war in Europe.

A farm boy who can fix anything in an emergency, Calvin’s mechanical skills serve to be his salvation during what will become known as one of the most famous WWII battles of all times – the Battle of the Bulge. As his unit heads north he is hit by enemy fire and left for dead.

The Farm Boy’ is a story of first love and a war driven adventure, filled with tensions and action, through the Ardennes Forest in Belgium, 1944.

Filmed in black and white, using wide angle lenses and conventional camera techniques of that time period, The Farm Boy was filmed mostly on George Woodard’s farm in Waterbury Center Vermont.


FEATURING: Henry Woodard, Grace Woodruff, and Coco Moseley

WITH: Jan Bailey, Robert Nuner, Marian Guihan, Chris Demars, Rosann Hickey, Richard Gliech, Solenne Marineau, Doug McGowan, Dakotah Senesac, Alex Nicosia, Seth Marineau, Tim Kavanagh, Sandra Gartner, Ramona Godfrey, Alison Brodie, Vincent Freeman, Joshua Huffman, Caroline Juneau, and Ellen Sholk. Special Guest Appearance by Ed Koren