October 6, 2012

October 6, 2012

Today was even busier than yesterday, if you can imagine!  

We started off the day at a pancake breakfast served by the local VFW.  With “happy tummies,” we went to the rodeo to watch calf roping until it was time to go to our first special program of the day.

There was an interview with Johnny Crawford, who played Mark on the TV series “Rifleman.”  He has been one of our favorites for a long time.  His brother, Robert, was also on the there.  Robert was also a child star, but now spends his time behind the cameras, among other things.  We had looked forward to this presentation, but there were no microphones and we had trouble hearing everything.  Rats!

We had to hurry to our next panel which was “Memories of Classic Hollywood.”  On the panel were the two Crawford “boys,” Stanley Livingston who was “Chip” on “My Three Sons,” stuntman Diamond Farnsworth, and Wyatt McCrea, grandson of Joel McCrea.  This group had microphones so we could hear the interesting stories from their careers.  

We went back to the Museum to hear a presentation and videos by stuntmen Loren Janes, and Diamond Farnsworth, who is coordinator of stunts for NCIS.  He had interesting stories about car crashes.  

Our last event was a presentation of theme songs from some of the major Western movies.

We spent the evening watching Zorro and the Oregon Ducks put it to Washington.  Yea, Ducks!  QUACK, QUACK, QUACK!