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"My Cowboy's Gift" at the NRHC
“My Cowboy’s Gift”

A Musical Theater Production and Chuck Wagon Dinner at the National Ranching Heritage Center, 3121 Fourth Street, Lubbock.

Friday, Aug. 20, 2010, 6:30 p.m.

Starring Donnie Allison, Kenny Maines and Lesley Sawyer with music performed by Lloyd Maines, Richard Bowden and Terri Hendrix

For more information, contact andy.wilkinson@ttu.edu or marsha.pfluger@ttu.edu

• The event includes a reception in the C.T. and Claire McLaughlin Arbor at 6:30 p.m. with free wine and beer, a silent auction and raffle. Award-winning chuck wagon cooks will prepare a full chicken fried steak dinner. The concert will be held in the historical park on a triple-level stage constructed against a high berm with an Eclipse windmill as part of the ranch setting.

• Reservations required. $50 for individual tickets. Tables for six will be $650 and for eight $1,000. Patrons can call Lance Rampy or Tim Bynum at (806) 742-2498 for reservations and memberships or go online at www.nrhc.ttu.edu.

• $10 raffle tickets are being sold for a charcoal portrait sitting by Santa Fe artist Paul Milosevich. Winner or “model” must be present at the NRHC on the evening of Friday, Sept. 24, 2010, to sit for the artist. Can contact lance.p.rampy@ttu.edu or tim.bynum@ttu.edu to purchase raffle tickets now.

• Synopsis — Set in the contemporary American West, “My Cowboy’s Gift” is the story of a rancher who, while attending to his recently deceased wife’s personal effects, has found a cache of old poems, some written by his wife and some by a cowboy who worked at the ranch many years before. Growing fearful as he reads them, for it seems obvious that they are poems between lovers, the rancher thinks back over the years, fear turning to jealousy, jealousy to anger, anger to bewilderment.

He re-hashes the past, and as he speaks, the other characters — the wife’s spirit, and the cowboy — appear to tell the story from their own points of view. Though the rancher never acknowledges the presence of the other two, his story and theirs are intertwined. It is through these poems and songs that the rancher ultimately achieves his metamorphosis.

Playwright Andy Wilkinson is a writer and singer of contemporary Western folk music. Through his poems and songs, he weaves images of people and places in telling true tales of the American West of the past and present. His work has been recognized with several prestigious regional and national awards.
Posted:
8/5/2010

Originator:
Emily Arellano

Email:
emily.wilkinson@ttu.edu

Department:
National Ranching Heritage Center


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