Newspaper article about my SC Film Exhibit
This article appeared on the Columbia SC newspaper The State on Sunday, January 20, 2008. (more…)
Archive for January, 2008
My New Alamo Essay
My friend Peter Rollins did me the honor of inviting me to contribute an essay to the new book Why We Fought: America’s Wars in Film and History, edited by Peter and John E. O’Connor. (more…)
Christmas Questionnaire 2007
Okay, this isn’t, strictly speaking, a Holiday Greeting but I thought it sort of fit in with the rest of my messages of hope and head cheese. I was emailed this Christmas questionnaire and tried to answer as honestly as I could. I think you’ll agree that it reveals some of the inner workings of that Thompson we call Frank. No matter what time of year you read this, I think it will put you in a warm holiday mood.
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My Museum Exhibit
A little over a year ago, I was in Columbia, South Carolina, visiting with two of my childhood friends, Joel Rice and Allen Roberson. Allen is the director of a very neat Civil War museum, the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Museum, which is located in the same complex as the South Carolina State Museum. I told them about the “Texas Movies” exhibit, for which I served as Guest Curator in 2005 at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum. Before I knew it, we were talking about the possibility of mounting a similar exhibit in South Carolina. (more…)