ABOVE: Robert Howard and Barbara French perform in a scene from “Tom Brown of Henniker” at the Congregational Church of Henniker.
ABOVE: Robert Howard and Barbara French perform in a scene from “Tom Brown of Henniker” at the Congregational Church of Henniker.

Filming began in October on Tom Brown of Henniker, an Alchemists’ Workshop community film project, about a 19th-century educator for seeing- and hearing-impaired people and disability rights activist.