News About My Work (Page 3)

“Songs Inside The Box,” the cigar box guitar documentary has been selected for screening at the 2011 Prometheus Film Festival of York, Pennsylvania. The festival will take place in the York Little Theatre on August 19th and 20th, one week before York will host the annual Pennsylvania Cigar Box Guitar Festival.SHOW ME NOW

Kathryn Tucker Windham died on June 12, 2011 at the age of 93. For me, and most native Alabamians of my generation, she was always there. I read her collections of ghost stories when I was a child. I heard her speak on various occasions and I saw her on TV many times through the years. Her stories made me smile.SHOW ME NOW

“Richard Johnston: Hill Country Troubadour,” the award-winning documentary by Center for Public Television & Radio producer/director Max Shores, will be shown at the 7th Annual Cigar Box Guitar Festival in Huntsville, Alabama at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 4th. Shores will be in attendance and will answer questions after the screening. SHOW ME NOW

For the past twenty years, I’ve traveled over Alabama collecting stories to tell through public TV documentaries. Everywhere I go I prefer to eat at local restaurants rather than national chains. If there’s a barbecue restaurant handy, that’ll be my first choice. I like barbecue and so do most of my co-workers. In fact, some of my co-workers through the years have been barbecue fanatics.SHOW ME NOW