There is a famous playwright from the small Texas town of Wharton. Horton Foote (1916-2009). He wrote the Oscar winning screenplay/adaptation for To Kill A Mockingbird. My grandmother & father are from that town & all my children were born there. His plays are set in the fictional town of Harrison/aka Wharton. He wrote a play called 1918, that is about the Spanish Influenza epidemic coming to the town. My grandfather died of the flu that fall.

So another good topic, for those who are interested. Mr. Foote’s writing is very nostalgic. He totally captures that time period in a small town. He also got an Oscar for his original screenplay for Tender Mercies starring Robert Duval & the lead actress Oscar went to Geraldine Page in the film The Trip To Bountiful, written by Mr. Foote.

Sorry, I digress, but several of his plays are set in the early twentieth century.