from Virginia Gause
The Weslaco Museum and Cinesol Film Festival will sponsor a screening of the new documentary film, “Crawford” on Wednesday, January 28, at the Eugene A. Braught Memorial Theater, 525 S. Kansas, at 7 p.m.
The theater is adjacent to the Weslaco Public Library. Attendance at the screening is free, but donations for the Cinesol Film Festival will be accepted at the door. Attendees will have a chance to win a Crawford T-shirt.
The film is about the one-stoplight town of Crawford and what happened after then Governor George W. Bush bought a ranch there in 1999, calling it “home” just in time to set his sights on the White House. Now he is again at his Crawford ranch after his eight years in Washington.
The film tells how Crawford was thrust onto the world stage and the small community of barely 700 explodes overnight.
The often funny, deeply human story is told by unforgettable characters. As witness to one man’s (and his spin doctor’s) decision to intertwine his life with the real small town America, the film provides a unique and poignant reflection of the Bush era.
The Crawford documentary was produced by David Modigliani and is presented as part of the Cinesol Film Festival with the cooperation of the Weslaco Museum and the Weslaco Public Library.
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1 GeneNovo // Jan 28, 2009 at 12:26 pm
…if you ride The Texas Eagle, south or north, to San Antonio or from San Antonio, you might get some rail-loving volunteers who point out the sights, and one sight is Crawford; on the way south last August, those volunteers, on a drizzly late afternoon, noted Crawford; they did not mention the misery that its famous resident caused, and they didn’t mention that he probably did not even know what he was doing …. I saw a diner in Crawford, a street, and then turned my attention back to a hard-drinking black woman from Zimbabwe, and a one-legged white woman from Buffalo -train pals – and the drizzle continued and The Texas Eagle ripped south, past a lot of heads-down cattle … outpacing cars and trucks and trailers on the road next to the tracks …..
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