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The 1974 Hollywood
production of Where the Lilies Bloom,
filmed almost entirely in Watauga
County, will be shown at
the Watauga County Library on Wednesday, May 4, at 7 p.m. The showing is free
and open to the public, but seating is limited.
Where the Lilies Bloom was based on Bill & Vera Cleaver’s National
Book Award children’s novel. Earl Hamner Jr., famous for The Waltons, wrote the screenplay, and the movie starred Julie Gholson,
Harry Dean Stanton, and Jan Smithers. Several Watauga Countians either had
parts in the movie or worked on the production, including Bob Cole, who played Hyder
Graybeal, and Rev. George Stenhouse, the local Episcopal minister who conducted
the movie’s wedding ceremony.
“We particularly want to
invite local people who appeared in or worked on this movie, to share their
experiences and share memories of the production,” said J.W. Williamson, author
of Hillbillyland: What the Movie Did to
the Mountains and What the Mountains Did to the Movies, who will be doing
an introduction to the film and leading the discussion afterward.
The showing is sponsored
by the Watauga County Democratic Party, which will be hosting screenings of
other movies made on location in western North
Carolina. The
Winter People (1989), filmed largely in Avery County,
will be shown on May 25 at the Watauga County Library.
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