The page and the screen were treats for some of Griffith's seniors on Wednesday, with the city's library celebrating seniors as part of state-wide celebrations.
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The Griffith City Library held a book-reading and a film screening as part of NSW Seniors Festival celebrations - a state-wide event running from February 12 to 23.
Seniors packed out the library's theatrette to be treated to a live reading of the Louisa May Alcott novel Little Women as well as view the 1949 film adaptation starring Elizabeth Taylor and Janet Leigh.
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Griffith City Library manager Shiron Kirkman said the decision to hold the event was to help attendees remember a book that was a part of their childhood.
"The library traditionally always hold an event to celebrate the seniors of our community, give them an outing and promote something that is to do with the library," Ms Kirkman said.
"We wanted to show the classic film of that [as] many of the participants today remember watching that classic film and also because it's a novel that is reminiscent of their childhood.
"Many of them, as I did, read the novel when they were young teenagers. It is incredibly complex that novel, in the day it was targeted from 10 to 15 years old... but for this group they remember it, it brings back those memories."
