Native West Texan Max Evans has spent his 93 years on the planet as a cowboy, a D-Day veteran, a painter, a miner and – most notably – as a writer of novels and short fiction. On Thursday, April 4, award-winning film maker Paul Barnes (longtime editor of Ken Burns’s PBS documentaries) and veteran newsperson and interviewer Lorene Mills (PBS’s “Report from Santa Fe”) will travel to Lubbock to screen their feature-length documentary movie, “Ol’ Max Evans: The First Thousand Years,” in the theatre of the Museum of Texas Tech.
Free and open to the public, we’ll begin with a short reception at 6 p.m. and the film at 6:30 p.m., followed by a panel discussion with Paul Barnes, Lorene Mills, Katelin Dixon (curator of the Max Evans Collection at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library), and TJ Martinez (Texas Tech’s College of Media and Communications).
KTTZ’s Paul Hunton will moderate the panel, which should end in plenty of time for visiting and more refreshments.
