Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media

Period of Performance

10/1/1985 - 9/30/1986

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$387,000.00 (approved)
$387,000.00 (awarded)


Katherine Anne Porter: A Texas Childhood

FAIN: GN-22583-85

Public Communication Foundation for North Texas (Dallas, TX 75201-1012)
Patricia P. Perini (Project Director: March 1985 to March 1987)

To support the production of a 60-minute television program on the early life and work of Katherine Anne Porter, featuring a dramatization of "The Grave" and excerpts from "The Witness" and "The Circus," relating these stories to her Texas childhood and the myths she created about it.