Howard Days is Six Weeks Away!

With Howard Days only six weeks away, June 10th & 11th are looming large for the hordes of Howard fans who are making plans to join us for The Best Two Days in Howard Fandom. Reading and poking around this blog will provide you with the necessary info for a wonderful weekend filled with panels, tours, exhibitions, auctions, featured guests and events - and this year there's even a full length feature showing of The Whole Wide World!

We certainly hope to see you with a Texas sized smile on your face, but even if you can't show up in Cross Plains, you can still help Project Pride extend the Legacy of Bob Howard for the whole (wide) world by making a small donation. Your money will help keep the Robert E. Howard Museum up and running throughout the year, is tax deductible and greatly appreciated!

And money isn't the only way you can help! Friday night at Howard Days features our Celebration Banquet. This year our Guest of Honor is Michael Scott Myers, screenwriter of The Whole Wide World and he'll be making his keynote speech at the Banquet. But another fun aspect of the Banquet is the Silent Auction. This is another way of donating to Project Pride, as 100% of the proceeds from the Silent Auction goes to the Robert E. Howard Museum.. And it's a way you can help the Legacy of REH without leaving your home.

Many of you reading this have Robert E. Howard books, magazines, comics, artwork, 3D art, paperbacks and all sorts of REH related items in your collections that would be perfect for the Silent Auction. Some of us have duplicates of our Howard items that would be also be perfect for the Silent Auction. So, make yourself feel good by donating these items to Project Pride, won't you?

You can send your items to;
Project Pride
Howard Days Silent Auction
POB 534
Cross Plains, TX 76443
Or, you can Paypal a monetary donation to: ProjPride@yahoo.com. Any amount is greatly appreciated!

Thanks so much for your generosity! We plan on keeping the Legacy of Robert E. Howard alive for many years to come because of fans like you!

Shown above: an item from a previous Auction: etched glass and a frame made from materials of a damaged window from Howard's actual writing room! Rumor has it there may be one in this year's Auction!

Dan Ireland RIP

We are saddened to report the passing of Dan Ireland on April 15th. Dan was the Director of The Whole Wide World, the marvelous movie depicting the relationship between Robert E. Howard and Novalyne Price.

The Whole Wide World will be featured at this year's Howard Days, as our Guest of Honor, Michael Scott Myers, is the screenwriter and 2016 marks the 20th anniversary of TWWW.

We'd like to share this article about the making of The Whole Wide World, pulled from the pages of Cinefantastique from January 1986.

Rest in peace, Dan Ireland - with your fine talent and art, you helped bring a sense of realness to the life and art of Robert E. Howard.

Registration Form Clarification!

We would like to clarify one item on the Howard Days Pre-Registration form (shown below this post.)

Project Pride wants everyone to know the $15.00/person pre-registration fee is ONLY for a dinner at the Friday night Banquet. The entire weekend of Howard Days activities: House tour, Bus Tour, postal cancellation souvenir, all panels (including the screening of The Whole Wide World), the Swap Meet and Pavilion Fellowship - are FREE to everyone.

While the $15.00 fee helps defray the cost of donuts, drinks and Friday lunch, these are also (basically) free. Donations are most welcomed, of course, so when you grab a pop or a water out of the big cooler or you chow down on that great hot dog lunch, remember to throw a couple of pazoors into the Donation Jar!

Also, please note that the Saturday BBQ at the Museum is compliments of Janet Swanson. Another fantastic no cost activity for your weekend's enjoyment!

So, registration for attendance is not required for Howard Days, but it's a nice way of letting Project Pride know who's coming! And we hope it's YOU, because this is The Best Two Days in Howard Fandom! And it's FREE!

The "Official" Howard Days Registration Forms

No sooner did we mention that Project Pride was sending out the pre-reg forms than they show up in our local mailbox!

If you're not already on the Project Pride mailing list you may reproduce the forms here when sending in your pre-registration money (or use the PayPal account) and you will be automatically included on the list.

Remember to register as early as you can, because seating at the Banquet is limited to 120 and the Banquet *always* sells out!

CLARIFICATION EDIT: THE $15.00 PRE-REG FEE IS ONLY FOR THE FRIDAY NIGHT BANQUET. ALL of the weekend's activities are FREE to everyone and the registration fee helps cover the costs of the donuts, drinks and lunch. The BBQ is compliments of Janet Swanson, so there is no fee involved there either.

Of course your donations are always welcomed to help defray all costs!

Howard Days Registration

The snow is gone, the smell of Spring (and hot dogs) is in the air, so that can only mean one thing: t's time to pre-register for Howard Days!

Project Pride of Cross Plains is in the process of sending out the information/registration forms for the 2016 event, so for those of you on their mailing list, be looking for them coming soon to a mailbox near you.

But if you are not on the mailing list, never fear! Registration for Howard Days on June 10-11th is only $15.00 per person. When you register, you are guaranteed a seat at the Friday Celebration Banquet but you also qualify for three additional meals: breakfast donuts and an incredibly tasty hot dog lunch (I can smell those dogs cooking now) on Friday and a real Texas chuck wagon BBQ on Saturday.

It's the deal of the weekend! But remember: you don't need to pre-register to attend Howard Days! Most of the activities for the weekend are free: House & Bus Tour, panels, Swap Meet plus all the fine Howard Fellowship. Project Pride likes to pre-register folks for the Banquet as seating is limited to 125.

So, if you Just Can't Wait, you may send your registration fee to:
Project Pride
2016 Howard Days Registration
POB 534
Cross Plains, TX 76443
Or use your Pay Pal to ProjPride@yahoo.com

We're looking forward to seeing you at Howard Days this year, so register early and often. Well, you know what I mean...

Robert E. Howard Days Info Brochure

Here's a little item that can be found at rest stops in central Texas. Every time we look it over again, it gets our blood up about Howard Days! We'll be posting more of the complete scheduling soon, along with periodic detailed vignettes to help with your Howard Days enjoyment, but in the meantime...

Michael Scott Myers is 2016 Guest of Honor

Robert E. Howard Days is proud to announce that our 2016 Guest of Honor is Michael Scott Myers, the screenwriter for The Whole Wide World.

Howard fans and movie buffs alike know that this 1996 movie is Mr. Myers adaptation of Novalyne Price Ellis' memoir novel, One Who Walked Alone, an account of the time she spent with Robert E. Howard in Cross Plains. The Whole Wide World, starring Vincent D'Onofrio and Renee Zellweger, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1996 and won the Seattle Film Festival award later that same year. Mr. Myers was later nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for best first screenplay (along with Zellweger for Best Actress) and won the 1997 Lone Star Award (for films shot in Texas) for best screenplay.

What some people do not know is that Michael Scott Myers is a former student of Novalyne Price Ellis when she taught in Lafayette, Louisiana. With this year being the 20th anniversary of TWWW and the 30th anniversary of Mrs. Ellis novel, Mr. Myers is double qualified to be the Howard Days Guest of Honor!

In addition to LOWDOWN, a short film which won first prize at the Ft. Worth Film Festival in 1998 and the River Run Film Festival in 1999, Myers completed four other screenplay adaptations - TO THE BRIGHT AND SHINING SUN by James Lee Burke, BLOOD TEST by Edward DeAngelo for CBS, COME AND GO MOLLY SNOW for Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions and FINE LINES by Simon Beckett. His most recent project is THE BLACK MASS OF BROTHER SPRINGER, adapted from the novel by Charles Willeford.

Michael currently lives back in Lafayette and is the creator and curator of the Cane Fire Film Series which runs monthly at the Acadiana Center for the Arts.

While at Howard Days this year, we'll have a screening of The Whole Wide World with additional commentary by the movie's screenwriter. Michael will also tell of his time spent with Novalyne Price Ellis and he will be the keynote speaker at the Friday Celebration Banquet.