PERSONNEL

We are pleased to introduce to you our owner and board of directors:

 

In 2012, Millpond Ink LLC was formed as an independent publishing company, which resulted in the publishing of The Gang of Twenty and Six and Ambient.

  • The Gang of Twenty and Six © 2012 is a Children’s Illustrated ‘Read to Me,’ Book, published.
  • Ambient ©2013 is an anthology of poetry and short stories. 

David Marchuck Barbour

 

In 2016, Millpond Ink LLC established dba Quiet Corner Productions in Ashford, Connecticut. Under Quiet Corner Productions, David Marchuck Barbour, has produced, written and performed in audio and video productions. Our audio productions are offered as part of the Millpond Radio Tabernacle, which focuses on our H.C. Spurgeon series. Video productions included A Christmas Carol Reunion and Farewell and our video offering of The Gang of Twenty and Six, 

OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Gail Zaicek
President/Secretary

Hi. I’m Gail. Enough with formalities. How I praise God for the opportunity to serve my Lord and Savior, Jesus, as President and Secretary of the Millpond Ink Board! Now, if only we could come up with a firm monthly meeting schedule, my prayers would be answered. Then again, I know that David has suffered far too many fiery darts with the development of the website. The website has been the singular issue for almost a year now. Anyway, now that the website is up and running, maybe we can return to some semblance of order. That’s where the Lord God has given me the administrative gift to get this horse galloping.   

Marion (Sunny) Kirkham-barbour
Associate Director

Hi! Yes, I am David’s wife. Call me Sunny. And yes, I love my husband, but more importantly I love the Lord God with all my heart, soul, mind, and might, and I believe in what God is doing with Millpond Ink/Quiet Corner Productions. As an long-standing community actress, my contributions are mostly directed towards the theatrical side of our faith and family outreach. Now that community stages are opening (after our 2-year bout with COVID), we hope to get back on stage here in the Quiet Corner of Connecticut. 

James York
Associate Director

Hi, Jim York here. As a producer, director and actor in community theater, I thank the Lord Jesus for the opportunity to provide my prayer support and insight to Millpond Ink, and David’s call to produce quality faith and family entertainment. We have come a long way – praise be to God! We pray that we will continue to grow in wisdom, God-given talent, and the creative ability to provide meaningful audio/visual works to God’s glory and honor. New England is a hard place to find hearts and minds drawn to serving Christ, our Lord has continually met our needs.

Jennifer Dotur
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

Hi from Wasilla, Alaska! I am the youngest board member. Ahem. I was blessed when my dad asked me to come on-board (dad joke.) I, too, love the Lord Jesus and as a homeschool parent and lover of history, I am excited to be a part of what God is doing through Millpond Ink. I pray I can provide my dad, and the other Board members, wise and prayerful counsel. I am especially excited about our Gang of Twenty and Six video project for parents and young children, and the H.C. Spurgeon series, which sermons I believe God will richly bless in the hearing of God’s intended audience.   

A Christmas Carol Reunion and Farewell

The following explains a little about the development of our script and those who came along side in the production of our mixed media and stop action animation.

About the Production

It took David five years to write a script that the Lord God responded to by opening doors to the production and now its release. Why that long? David hadn’t done his due diligence. The Lord was not about to open any doors that did not correctly bring to light the Gospel message, which Charles Dickens embedded in his  Carol. For more on what David discovered,  he will share that later on this page. As for the doors Father opened, please see our  notes of appreciation to Department 56, Enesco LLC; Faith Based Casting & The Cheryl Rhoads Northern Virginia Acting School. Let’s just say, the past five years have been a most trying, yet most satisfying years in growth and challenge for everyone involved in this project.

Our Sincere Appreciation

Mr. Todd Sherrod

Todd Sherrod provided invaluable direction during the making of the voiceover scenes in our video. Those scenes were ZOOMED, voices recorded and edited. During those months, Todd faced, as many of us, the trials of family commitments, work, and health issues that kept us on our knees (which is actually quite good.)

THANK YOU TODD!

Department 56, Enesco LLC

Millpond Ink, LLC dba Quiet Corner Productions sincerely thanks Enesco LLC for approving our use of their wonderful Department 56 miniature Dicken’s Village buildings, horse-drawn conveyances, and figurines in the stop-action animation viewed in this production.

THANK YOU ENESCO!

The Cheryl Felicia Rhoads Northern Virginia Acting School & Faith Based Casting

Todd Sherrod provided invaluable direction during the making of the voiceover scenes in our video. Those scenes were ZOOMED, voices recorded and edited. During those months, Todd faced, as many of us, the trials of family commitments, work, and health issues that kept us on our knees (which is actually quite good.)

THANK YOU CHERYL & FAITH BASED CASTING!

A Christmas Carol Reunion and Farewell

Our writer, director(s), producers, original musicians and other legalese.

A Christmas Carol Reunion and Farewell

written by: David Marchuck Barbour

Co-directed by:
David Marchuck Barbour & Todd Sherrod

Executive Producer: Gail Zaicek

Musical Compositions Performed by:
Paul Monat (Coronet)
Fred Gosbee (Fiddle)

(Respecting, as we ought, the intellectual property of others, we purchased extended business licenses on all other copyrighted music, commercial images and sound effects through Depositphotos.com, whom we used exclusively in the production of our show.)

All Rights Reserved –

Millpond Ink, LLC/Quiet Corner Productions
Ashford, Connecticut 06278

Now, as for introducing our cast…

Parlor Players

In order of appearance entering into Scrooge's Parlor and videotaped on location in Ashford, Connecticut, with casting source identified. (organic, Faith Based Casting and Cheryl Rhoads.

Owner, Author and Actor
David Marchuck Barbour

Ebenezer Scrooge

Actor and Board Member
Marion (Sunny) Kirkham-Barbour

Mrs. Tilly Dilber

Faith Based Casting
JoAnn F. Peterson

Sweet Belle 

Cheryl Rhoads
Kyle Waller

Reverend Timothy Cratchit

 
Faith Based Casting
William Link
Jacob Marley
 

Voiceover Artists

Again, God's providence provided a wonderful cast in performing our village people and flashback characters.

Performer and Location

John Courtis – Alexandria, Virginia
David Marchuck Barbour – Ashford, CT
Maddie Oliver – Willington, CT
Bill Cherniske – Willington, CT
Tracy Oliver – Willington, CT
David Gaylor – Dayton, Ohio
Cristina Espinosa – Washington, D.C
Jennifer Cort – Atlanta, Georgia
Miguel Berrios – Alexandria, Virginia
Jacey Dean – Ashland, Wisconsin
Dave Gaylor – Dayton, Ohio
James York – Ashford, Connecticut
Marty Hogen – Bozeman, Montana
Alice Atwater – Centennial, Colorado
David Reichner – Provo, Utah
Barbi Reichner – Provo, Utah
Josephine Amar – Washington, D.C.
Rosa Sylvester – Atlanta, Georgia
Dennis Courtis – Alexandria, Virginia
Justin Smith – Farmington, CT

Character/Role

Philonous Bookman, our Village Storyteller
Charles, first to hear Philonous’ story
Holly Fairbairn
Holly’s Father
Holly’s Mother (real)
The Old Ghost
The Pleading Woman
Young Belle
Young Ebenezer Scrooge
Thirty-something, Mrs. Tilley Dilber
Thirty-something, Jacob Marley
Thirty-something, Ebenezer Scrooge
Bob Cratchit
Mary Cratchit
Tom, Belle’s First Husband
Belle, Twenty-something
Solicitor 1
Solicitor 2
Young John Lockett, lad in the lane
Fred, Scrooge’s nephew

Providential Casting

Cheryl Rhoads
Organic, Millpond Ink LLC Owner, Author and Actor
Organic, Federated Church of Willington
Organic, Federated Church of Willington
Organic, Federated Church of Willington
Organic, Social Media Contact
Cheryl Rhoads
Faith Based Casting
Cheryl Rhoads
Faith Based Casting
Organic, Social Media Contact
Organic, Board Member and Actor
Faith Based Casting
Faith Based Casting
Faith Based Casting
Faith Based Casting – wife of David Reichner
Cheryl Rhoads
Faith Based Casting
Cheryl Rhoads
Organic, Millpond Ink former actor

The Millpond Radio Tabernacle

Millpond Ink LLC/Quiet Corner Productions will offer in the future a variety of radio programs beginning with a release of A Christmas Carol Reunion and Farewell, but also centered on the extraordinary sermons preached by Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

The Modern Whitfield

Over in our Radio Tabernacle, we are in the Grind  recording the fifteen sermons preached by Charles Haddon Spurgeon as he began his pastorate at the New Park Street Chapel, London, England.  We are excited to offer these recordings in our Sacred Sermon Series. Charles Haddon Spurgeon, who was a prolific leader of the Reformed Baptists, served the Lord Jesus thirty-eight years, beginning his ministry at the New Park Street Chapel, which ultimately became the Metropolitan Tabernacle.  It is an honor for us to record these sermons, but more so a blessing to learn and grow from them. Spurgeon’s first sermon, Sovereignty and Salvation; was preached on January 6, 1854, and will be available for download October 1, 2022.