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CAMP TATANKA
June-July-August
Wednesday afternoons from 1:30-4:30
Activities for kids ages 5 -12 years. Coordinated with West Texas A&M University. Museum activities are Wednesday afternoons from 1:30 – 4:30 pm. To sign sign up call the Virgil Hensen Activities Center at 651-2400.
PALO DURO WESTERN FILM FESTIVAL
Varsity Theater and PPHM
August 3-5, 2007
FRIDAY, AUGUST 3
6:30 PM A Conversation with...Max Evans (see details below)
7:30 PM The Rounders
SATURDAY, AUGUST 4
Noon Hud (1963)
2:30 PM Lone Star Cinema: A Century of Texas in the Movies (see details below)
4:00 PM Ride Lonesome (1959)
7:00 PM The Good Old Boys (1995)
SUNDAY, AUGUST 5
1:00 PM The Last Picture Show (1971)
The Varsity Theater is located at 2302 Fourth Ave, Canyon, Texas. Tickets for Western Film Festival movies are $5 for adults, $3 for children.
Classic Westerns starring Roy Rogers, John Wayne and Gene Autry will be shown in the Museum's Llano Theater all three days and are free with museum admission.
The project was made possible in part with a grant from Humanities Texas,the state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
A Conversation with...Max Evans
Friday, August 3
6:30-7:30 pm
Hazlewood Lecture Hall
Western writer and artist Max Evans will join Dr. Don Graham, professor at the University of Texas and film historian, for a lively conversation about Mr. Evans' career as it took him literally from "Hi-Lo to Hollywood" and into a 25-year professional friendship with director Sam Peckinpah. This program promises to be a lively exchange and will be followed by the screening of Max Evans' films. The Rounders. Admission to the lecture is free. Popcorn and soft drinks will be served. Reservations required; call 806-651-2233 or email adavid@pphm.wtamu.edu.
Lone Star Cinema: A History of Texas in the Movies
Saturday, August 4
2:30 pm
Hazlewood Lecture Hall
Dr. Don Graham returns to examine the evolution of Texas in film for almost 100 years. Traces of Texas content appeared as early as 1898 in Thomas Edison-produced segments of films depicting typical ranching activities. By the turn of the new century, classics such as the Great Train Robbery (1903) and A Corner in Wheat (1909) were produced. Since then, over six hundred films containing Texas content, over half of them Western, have been produced. This program is free to members, or $5 for nonmembers. Reservations required; call 806-651-2233 or email adavid@pphm.wtamu.edu.
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