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The two days prior to our meeting, February 27-28, the Spindletop
2001 Commission and the Texas Energy Museum will be sponsoring
"Stars Fell on Texas," an historical film symposium in Beaumont that will
focus on the oil story as portrayed in Hollywood film and television. This
exciting conference will be of interest to many TSHA members who are
planning on coming to our Houston meeting and may want to come to
the area a few days early for the festivities in Beaumont.
On Tuesday, February 27, there will be a special film showing and a
wine and cheese reception at Lamar University. The next day, also at
Lamar, there will be several sessions by leading scholars on various im-
ages of the oil business.
Included in each program will be film clips of the subject at hand.
Among others, Don Graham from UT-Austin will be speaking on the TV
show Dallas; Jim Lee from the University of North Texas will present a
paper on the movie Boomtown; and Don Staples, also from UNT and the
program chairman for the symposium, will speak on "Stars Fell on
Henrietta."
This Spindletop conference is being held in cooperation with the
Beaumont History Conference and the TSHA, and it is supported by the
Summerlee Foundation and the Sun Oil Company. We will provide
more details in upcoming issues of Riding Line and the Quarterly. For fur-
ther information and registration information contact the Texas Energy
Museum, 600o Main Street, Beaumont 77701, or call 409/833-5100.
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