From Virginia Gause - Well, hello Dolly … and goodbye Dolly!

Hurricane Dolly seems way behind us now, but I want to thank two special people for keeping me well informed several times a day this past week with news about the hurricane.  I am talking about Melinda Barrera and Steve Taylor,  who publish Rio Grande Guardian, the internet newspaper devoted solely to covering the Texas-Mexico border region.  They are the new breed of journalists!  If you have never looked at their newspaper, you owe it to yourself to take a close look at it and to subscribe to it before the next hurricane threatens.

www.riograndeguardian.com/index.asp

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Hurricane Dolly delayed UTPA’s Summer Pass Theatre by a week, so we will just have to wait a few more days before we see Joel “Jay” Garza, publicity man at the Museum of South Texas History in “Cahoots”.  This comedy was to start on July 31, but now runs August 7-10.  The comedy “Sylvia” will run August 14-17.

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Art That Heals, Inc. is seeking interested persons to help with its programs and services. Its mission is to encourage cultural literacy in the Rio Grande Valley by promoting the arts, and to use the arts to help bring an end to the AIDS epidemic. If you are interested in volunteering or being on its board of directors, fill out the application on its website: www.athinc.org/Application.html

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Brownsville Historical Association launched 7 new blogs this week dealing with various aspects of Brownsville culture and heritage.  These are interactive blogs which will allow BHA members, as well as the community at large, to post their own thoughts about the various subject areas covered.  Here’s an example of one of them.  Notice that 1878 photo of the Brownsville Market Square!

http://brownsvillemarketsquare.blogspot.com/

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Get ready for “Anton in Show Business” directed by my neighbor Amanda Sasser which opens at the McAllen Creative Incubator on August 8.  It is about three very different girls who head to San Antonio to star in Anton Chekhov’s classic play, “The Three Sisters.”  The look of the play is like that of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town”.

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Virginia Haynie Gause