Cisco Writers Club Celebrates Kelton, Anniversary

Despite dramatic area storms in late afternoon, Cisco Writers Club celebrated its 48th anniversary as planned with an informal table reading on March 2.

Twenty-four readers, including 13-yearold Mickell York and 81-year-old Dave Carney, assembled to read a screenplay of Elmer Kelton’s classic western, The Time It Never Rained. The script was written by J. Brian Elliott and Lorie A. Woodward. Lorie was on hand to introduce this award-winning novel, its history, its adaptation for the screen, and then to join the readers as narrator.

Alicia Gibson, friend and former neighbor of Elmer Kelton, was also present. Alicia holds the film rights for this book. She is determined to be a good steward of what Kelton felt was his best work.