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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2021 11:59:51 GMT -5
HOWARD DAYS 2021 ANNOUNCEMENT With the Covid-19 pandemic still raging across the world, we want you to know that the Robert E. Howard Foundation, Project Pride of Cross Plains and the City of Cross Plains, Texas, have decided to delay any announcements about Howard Days 2021 until the end of March.
While Howard Days still could happen on the scheduled dates of June 11th and 12th, we will need to monitor the up-to-date information about the easing of the pandemic to make an educated decision.
Above all, the health and safety of the City of Cross Plains and its residents, along with the hundreds of REH fans coming to Howard Days from literally all over the world is of utmost concern. So our decision will be guided first by Cross Plains and come on or before the end of March.
Check again on this page or on the Robert E. Howard Facebook page for updated info.
We appreciate your understanding at this time.
Source: www.howarddays.com/2021/01/howard-days-2021-announcement.html
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Post by terryallenuk on Jan 12, 2021 13:42:20 GMT -5
I think we were all fairly confident after last year that we'd be OK , we booked trips , flights , RV around the dates pretty well straight away after the cancellation. As we've got to the time when we need to make a decision regarding payments , and with the situation still looking dire , we've cancelled things . I hope we can still get over , if only for a few days , when they decide what to do. If not , well there's always next year.
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Post by themirrorthief on Jan 13, 2021 19:00:22 GMT -5
right on bro
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Post by linefacedscrivener on Apr 1, 2021 21:31:38 GMT -5
Howard Days is a go! Here is the announcement: ROBERT E. HOWARD DAYS 2021 will take place on June 11th & 12th at The Robert E. Howard Museum in Cross Plains, Texas! Project Pride of Cross Plains and the City of Cross Plains, in conjunction with The Robert E. Howard Foundation, have determined conditions have improved enough to host the event this year. And Roy Thomas has agreed to return as our Guest of Honor as we celebrate 50 - uh, 51 Years of REH in Comics! Over the next week we will be firming up our events, activities and programming, so stay tuned for those via the various social media sites. Look for all of the "regular" happenings to occur. As we move forward with programming, we need to inform you that all these announcements, plans and schedules are subject to change. With the pandemic news and health procedures changing week to week, please be aware that Howard Days could be altered. But we are proceeding with our plans for this year, based on currently available information. These decisions are being closely monitored and we will keep everyone posted via various social media. Please note that we will abide by whatever regulations are set forth by the City of Cross Plains at the time of Howard Days. As of today, however, (and this is NOT an April Fools Day prank!) Howard Days is happening on June 11th & 12th. We hope to see you in Cross Plains and we're looking forward to The Best Two Days in Howard Fandom! Y'all come! www.howarddays.com/ |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2021 1:32:31 GMT -5
Howard Days is a go! Here is the announcement: ROBERT E. HOWARD DAYS 2021 will take place on June 11th & 12th at The Robert E. Howard Museum in Cross Plains, Texas! Project Pride of Cross Plains and the City of Cross Plains, in conjunction with The Robert E. Howard Foundation, have determined conditions have improved enough to host the event this year. And Roy Thomas has agreed to return as our Guest of Honor as we celebrate 50 - uh, 51 Years of REH in Comics! Over the next week we will be firming up our events, activities and programming, so stay tuned for those via the various social media sites. Look for all of the "regular" happenings to occur. As we move forward with programming, we need to inform you that all these announcements, plans and schedules are subject to change. With the pandemic news and health procedures changing week to week, please be aware that Howard Days could be altered. But we are proceeding with our plans for this year, based on currently available information. These decisions are being closely monitored and we will keep everyone posted via various social media. Please note that we will abide by whatever regulations are set forth by the City of Cross Plains at the time of Howard Days. As of today, however, (and this is NOT an April Fools Day prank!) Howard Days is happening on June 11th & 12th. We hope to see you in Cross Plains and we're looking forward to The Best Two Days in Howard Fandom! Y'all come! www.howarddays.com/Thanks Linefacedscrivener. By Crom and Tengri, I can't wait to see the videos this summer, hopefully. |
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Post by robp on Apr 2, 2021 8:43:37 GMT -5
Great news!
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Post by terryallenuk on Apr 2, 2021 12:12:39 GMT -5
Yes hoping for videos as we'd originally planned to be there , like last year , but won't be able to travel over. TBH I thought they might push it back , as it was originally mentioned they might , later in the year which might have given us a chance to be there.
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Post by terryallenuk on Apr 4, 2021 12:33:57 GMT -5
Sadly Ben who usually does the videos isn't attending this year , hopefully they can get someone else to film things.
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Post by linefacedscrivener on Apr 20, 2021 14:53:18 GMT -5
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Post by themirrorthief on Apr 20, 2021 20:53:16 GMT -5
if I attend who could I meet...I doubt Roy will have much opportunity to hang out or whatever
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Post by terryallenuk on Apr 21, 2021 12:44:03 GMT -5
Here is the published schedule for Howard Days 2021. Hope to see you all there! Have a great time , jealous as we_were_supposed to be there last year and this. |
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Post by terryallenuk on Apr 21, 2021 12:45:52 GMT -5
if I attend who could I meet...I doubt Roy will have much opportunity to hang out or whatever The set up is very informal , and Roy is very approachable , so there is plenty of opportunity for a chat if it is anything like last time he was there. |
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2021 16:28:26 GMT -5
'Conan the Barbarian' author Robert E. Howard brings the world to Cross PlainsRONALD W. ERDRICH | Abilene Reporter-News  Arlene Stephenson, the president of Project Pride, moves a chair in the Robert E. Howard Museum last week. The museum will honor the late Cross Plains author June 11-12 with the annual Howard Days celebration. RONALD W. ERDRICH/REPORTER-NEWS CROSS PLAINS – When truth v. fiction: Which is the stranger?
If you’re playing with the smart money, truth never steers you wrong.
For decades, people have made a pilgrimage here to the Robert E. Howard home. Purchased in 1988 by a nonprofit called Project Pride, the onetime home of the pulp writer has been maintained to resemble its appearance when Howard died in 1936.
It stands at 625 W, Highway 36 as you enter Cross Plains from Abilene.
This year, exactly 85 years to the day after his death - June 11, a historical marker will be unveiled in front of the home at 12:45 p.m. It marks the start of this year’s Robert E. Howard Days, a two-day event featuring readings, seminars, food and fellowship.
Howard’s most celebrated creation, Conan the Barbarian, sprang forth here from the author’s mind. This year’s guest of honor will be Roy Thomas, who succeeded Stan Lee as editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics and introduced Conan to pop culture via the barbarian’s comic book, “The Savage Sword of Conan.”
But before comic books, pulp magazines in the 1930s were filled with cheaply-produced stories cranked out by authors as fast as they could write them, consumed by a public hungry for escape from the miseries of the Great Depression. In addition to Conan and his Hyborian world, Howard wrote westerns, crime stories, boxing tale, and the occasional poem, earning a penny a word. The small room Robert E. Howard used for sleeping and writing during the 1930s in Cross Plains. RONALD W. ERDRICH/REPORTER-NEWS
The pen that launched a movement
If you enjoy "Game of Thrones," "The Witcher" or Arnold Schwarzenegger movies, then you have Robert E. Howard to thank for creating the literary genre known as “Sword and Sorcery.” In the case of the actor 1982 “Conan the Barbarian” launched him as an action star.
Given the subject matter, maybe you're asking how any reality is stranger than what Howard dreamed? Did dragons hunker down here behind Jean’s Feed Barn and nobody noticed?
Not quite. Though Howard wrote how Conan “tread the jeweled thrones of the earth under his sandaled feet,” his own home has attracted its own share of colorful characters.
First glimpseThere was the blind man who first saw the author’s face. Project Pride president Arlene Stephenson recalled him as a boy named Michael, who returned later when he was a man.
“He had come up with his family, just a teenager at the time,” Stephenson said. “He was pretty well versed in Howard, even at that age.”
When oriented before a map depicting Howard’s Hyborian world, she said the teen had been able to pick out and point to the different places depicted upon it. Howard had set his Hyborian world before recorded history, basing it of a modified map of Europe, north Africa and parts of Asia with the names changed.
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But it was years later, when Michael married and brought his new wife to the Howard museum, that he learned what his favorite author looked like.
“Some fellow had recently given us a bronze bust of Howard, and it had been sitting on a kitchen table and nobody really paid much attention to it,” Stephenson said.
About the height of a football on its end, she handed the bust to Michael.
“Here’s what he looked like,” she told him. A donated bust of the late Cross Plains author Robert E. Howard on display in his former home which is a museum. RONALD W. ERDRICH/REPORTER-NEWS Enthralled, the young man’s fingers repeatedly caressed the features of the bronze, feeling every nuance, each contour rendered by the artist.
“He just zoned out. He felt that thing for the longest time,” Stephenson said. “Just all over, back and forth, upside down, and everything.”
Michael had read how the author had described himself as possessing a weak chin, now he “saw” it for himself.
“Now I know what Howard looked like,” he told her. “It’s the first time I’ve ever seen him.”
Shaken, not stirredAnd then there was the spy.
“Yeah, we had a spy out there one time. He spent his whole career in CIA counterintelligence,” Stephenson recalled matter-of-factly. “I think he lives in College Station now.”
Huh, somehow with Aggies that makes sense. He wasn’t doing recon, was he? Stephenson laughed.
“No. I think he stopped here on his way to do something. Some program over at Abilene, and we just kind of picked up on it out here and thought, ‘This is perfect for the library's Meet the Author.’”
Hey, there’s stranger ways a plan comes together.
“He and his wife, they were both spies,” Stephenson continued. “At the same time. You talk about an interesting life. And three kids.”
At this point, I laughed because I get it. I married into my biz, too.
Stephenson’s story continued; not only did their kids not Mom and Dad were spies, neither did their parents. This was starting to sound like that "Spy Kids" children love.
“When they decided to retire, they finally told their family and friends,” Stephenson said. “And some of them laughed and said, ‘I always wondered how you had those really odd jobs.’”
 Cardboard protects a historical marker in front of the Robert E. Howard Museum in Cross Plains. RONALD W. ERDRICH/REPORTER-NEWS Oven fans
There were other notables, too. Movie star Bruce Boxleitner, who starred in Disney’s “Tron” as well as the science fiction show “Babylon 5” in the late 1990s, came by to see Howard’s home.
But nothing like those three guys from Sweden.
“They were on their way to some sort of a gaming convention somewhere, and they stopped at the museum,” Stephenson said. “We always say you have your picture taken anywhere in the museum you want.
“Well, they headed for the kitchen.”
The house furnishings are a mix of the Howard’s original possessions, and later acquisitions, like the gas stove, installed to represent how the home might have appeared. The oven’s pedigree didn’t matter to these guys, however.
“No, they opened the oven, and all three were bent over, looking in,” Stephenson recalled. ”I said, ‘Well, nobody's ever done that. Hold still!’”
Stick a sword in this one.
It’s done.Ronald Erdrich is the photojournalist and a columnist for the Abilene Reporter-News.
Source: eu.reporternews.com/story/news/columnists/big-country-journal/2021/05/23/conan-barbarian-author-brings-world-cross-plains-texas-abilene-newspaper-howard/5228629001/
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Post by kobeck on May 25, 2021 23:24:33 GMT -5
great news and good read
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2021 16:57:39 GMT -5
Howard Days 2021 - REH in the Comics!
Hile, Cromrades! What a whirlwind, Howard Days 2021 has come and went! For this episode, we present a recording of the panel, 'REH in the Comics.' This conversation from Friday, June 11th, at the First United Methodist Church in Cross Plains, Texas. The panel focuses on the history of Robert E. Howard’s characters and stories presented in a comic book format. Mark Finn moderates Roy Thomas, Fred Blosser, Patrice Louinet, and Jay Zetterberg.
Here's a link to the Cromcast: thecromcast.blogspot.com/2021/06/howard-days-2021-recording-reh-in-comics.htmlNext time... The REH Celebration Banquet, with keynote address by Roy Thomas!
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