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After being abused and mistreated for many years, Kassandra entered the foster care system at age fifteen. Kassandra considers herself lucky – she got to have a job, go on dates, and have a normal high school experience while in foster care. She decided to go to college and eventually felt called to become a Counselor so she could help others. She now has a Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Kassandra Villarreal is a devoted Counselor, driven by her passion to support parents, children, and families through individual and group counseling. Drawing upon her own experience in the foster care system, Kassandra now dedicatesherself to working with children, youth, and families to make necessary changes to the foster care experience. She is happily married to her college sweetheart and is a mother to two boys, ages 9 & 6. If you are a former foster child who aged out of the system and want to share your story, email us at agedoutproject@gmail.com! You deserve to be heard. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter! Https://www.instagram.com/agedoutproject/?hl=en Https://twitter.com/AgedOutProject/status/1751012286611997076 Credits: Interviewee: Kassandra Villrreal Interviewers: Addison Bruce and Mackenzie Young Editor: Soheil Abdmousavi Editing Team: Addison Bruce and Mackenzie Young Music Credit: Nostaliga by Tobus https://soundcloud.com/7obu Music Promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/03Aky9bhOMU   The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of SMU.

The Frequency of Celestial Harmony with Flicka Rahn Flicka Rahn is an internationally known vocal performer, author, teacher and published composer. She served on the music faculty at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi for 22 years in addition to Brandeis University in Boston, and the Boston Conservatory of Music. As a professional soprano she has appeared with the Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Philharmonic, New York Wagner Society, Minnesota Grand Opera, San Antonio Opera and the Sinfonia de Queretaro, Mexico. She has traveled throughout Mexico with notable Mexican artists presenting Uniting Nations through Music. Since 2015, Ms. Rahn has been practicing sound therapy at the Integrative Healing Institute in San Antonio. She is a co-founder of the Transcendence Project, co-creator of the Innergy Tuner app and co-author with Tammy McCrary and The Transformational Power of Sound and Music book. In 2012, as a Fulbright Scholar, she traveled to the Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro in Queretaro, Mexico, and taught courses on American art songs and American musical theater. She returned to Queretaro in 2015 to produce and direct musical presentations at the Proarte Escuela de Danza and the Centro Estudios de Musicales. In 2016, she continued her work in Mexico appearing with the Queretaro Symphony in their annual Opera Gala, performing solos and ensembles with Mexican vocal artists. She continues to have a large studio of classical vocal students in Queretaro, Mexico. In 2017, she and Mexican tenor, Andres Pichardo (add Andres' link) presented concerts in four cities throughout Mexico. In 2018, she returned to sing two concerts, “Amigos Para Siempre,” in Mexico City and Queretaro with tenors, Alberto Angel and Andres Pichardo.” As a composer, Ms Rahn's sacred and secular pieces for vocal soloists, choirs, and opera companies have been performed at universities, educational institutions, churches, museums, and temples. Her art songs are published in the series Art Songs by American Women Composers. In 2017, she and fellow musician, Daniel Wyman, recorded and released an album of meditation and healing music under the name The Icaros, and released their debut album Chakra Soundscapes, in 2018. This beautiful musical interpretation was inspired by her experiences of the improvised healing songs of the Shipibo shamans from the Amazon jungle in Peru. The Icaros followed up with the elegantly produced Hymns to Gaia: Honoring the Elements in 2019 and Ascension in August of 2021. The Icaros continues to perform at festivals and events in the US, Mexico and the UK. LINK: 

Our episode tonight is all about the AMS Annual Meeting 2024 live from Baltimore. First up from the Conference is Ryan Lagerquist, NOAA employee and is a Research Scientist at CIRA (Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere).  He is a meteorologist by training and is heavily involved in machine learning research. Joining us next on the show is the Chair for Coastal Artificial Intelligence at Texas A@M University-Corpus Christi and a Co-PI for the National Science Foundation Artificial Intelligence Institute for Research on Trustworthy AI in Weather, Climate, and Coastal Oceanography, or AI2ES.  Dr. Phillipe Tissot, thanks for dropping by tonight. Our email officer Jen is continuing to handle the incoming messages from our listeners. Reach us here: email@weatherbrains.com. Early reflections on AMS Annual Meeting (13:15) AI and the future of meteorology in general (16:00) Broad overview of AI and NWS Operations/Numerical weather prediction models (24:00) Community modeling/EPIC/UFS (32:00) The Astronomy Outlook with Tony Rice (No segment this week) This Week in Tornado History With Jen (53:03) National Weather Round-Up (01:02:45) E-Mail Segment (55:00) and more! Web Sites from Episode 941: 2024 AMS Annual Meeting Picks of the Week: James Aydelott - Brian Brettschneider on X: Fairbanks upper air sounding Jen Narramore - Foghorn Rick Smith - NWS SPC on X: 9 Years of SPC Outlooks Neil Jacobs - Foghorn Troy Kimmel - Foghorn Kim Klockow-McClain - Foghorn Bill Murray - Out James Spann - A Change in the Weather: Understanding Public Usage of Weather Apps James Spann - Kevin Kloesel on X: Rick Smith photo/meme The WeatherBrains crew includes your host, James Spann, plus other notable geeks like Troy Kimmel, Bill Murray, Rick Smith, James Aydelott, Jen Narramore, Dr. Neil Jacobs, and Dr. Kim Klockow-McClain. They bring together a wealth of weather knowledge and experience for another fascinating podcast about weather.  

Higher Ed Now is pleased to launch a new series of student-driven podcast conversations issuing from the College Debates and Discourse (CD&D) Alliance – a national initiative led by ACTA, Braver Angels, and BridgeUSA. ACTA's program manager for the CD&D Alliance, Sadie Webb, will host the series to showcase students across the nation who are leading a movement to promote civil discourse, depolarizing debates, and free expression on college campuses.   In July 2023, the CD&D Alliance team gathered at the University of Denver for a symposium bringing together faculty leaders and student fellows from ten colleges and universities that are participating in a two-year $1.3 million research project, funded by the John Templeton Foundation. This multifaceted project explores the effects of Braver Angels debates and discourse on campus communities – and student leaders have a major role in driving it. Joining Ms. Webb in today's episode are three student fellows in the Templeton project. They include Jordan Phillips from Duke University in North Carolina, Lucas Rice of Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, and Cheyanne Rider of Linn-Benton Community College in Oregon. The wisdom and insights of these students are inspiring and instructive for our politically fractured nation.

Dive into the fascinating world of coral reefs with us as we interview Dr. Keisha Bahr of Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.  Learn about the role of coral reefs in marine ecosystems, the causes of coral bleaching, reef restoration, and more.  Email us at wildpodcast@tamuk.edu For more information: http://www.bahrlab.com/people https://www.ckwri.tamuk.edu/media/talk-wild-side-podcast https://www.rotarycc.com/harvey-weil/

In this episode we talk about sharks in the Gulf of Mexico, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and epigenetic effects in fish of oil in the Gulf with Dr. David Portnoy, of Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.  Email us at wildpodcast@tamuk.edu For more information on today's episode: https://www.marinegenomicslab.tamucc.edu/about-david-s-portnoy https://www.ckwri.tamuk.edu/media/talk-wild-side-podcast https://www.rotarycc.com/harvey-weil/

Dr. Jeffrey Turner, of Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, discusses his research on bacteria, sewage pollution, and bioplastics in the Gulf of Mexico just off the Texas coast.  Email us at wildpodcast@tamuk.edu For more information on today's episode: https://turnerlab.tamucc.edu/  https://www.ckwri.tamuk.edu/media/talk-wild-side-podcast https://www.rotarycc.com/harvey-weil/

Flicka Rahn is an internationally known vocal performer, author, teacher and published composer. She served on the music faculty at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi for 22 years in addition to Brandeis University in Boston, and the Boston Conservatory of Music. As a professional soprano she has appeared with the Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Philharmonic, New York Wagner Society, Minnesota Grand Opera, San Antonio Opera and the Sinfonia de Queretaro, Mexico. She has traveled throughout Mexico with notable Mexican artists presenting Uniting Nations through Music. Since 2015, Ms. Rahn has been practicing sound therapy at the Integrative Healing Institute in San Antonio. She is a co-founder of the Transcendence Project, co-creator of the Innergy Tuner app and co-author with Tammy McCrary and The Transformational Power of Sound and Music book. In 2012, as a Fulbright Scholar, she traveled to the Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro in Queretaro, Mexico, and taught courses on American art songs and American musical theater. She returned to Queretaro in 2015 to produce and direct musical presentations at the Proarte Escuela de Danza and the Centro Estudios de Musicales. In 2016, she continued her work in Mexico appearing with the Queretaro Symphony in their annual Opera Gala, performing solos and ensembles with Mexican vocal artists. She continues to have a large studio of classical vocal students in Queretaro, Mexico. In 2017, she and Mexican tenor, Andres Pichardo (add Andres' link) presented concerts in four cities throughout Mexico. In 2018, she returned to sing two concerts, “Amigos Para Siempre,” in Mexico City and Queretaro with tenors, Alberto Angel and Andres Pichardo.” As a composer, Ms Rahn's sacred and secular pieces for vocal soloists, choirs, and opera companies have been performed at universities, educational institutions, churches, museums, and temples. Her art songs are published in the series Art Songs by American Women Composers. In 2017, she and fellow musician, Daniel Wyman, recorded and released an album of meditation and healing music under the name The Icaros, and released their debut album Chakra Soundscapes, in 2018. This beautiful musical interpretation was inspired by her experiences of the improvised healing songs of the Shipibo shamans from the Amazon jungle in Peru. The Icaros followed up with the elegantly produced Hymns to Gaia: Honoring the Elements in 2019 and Ascension in August of 2021. The Icaros continues to perform at festivals and events in the US, Mexico and the UK. LINK: 

✨Congratulations to Ashley Arevalo, our PowerUp Hero of Gender Equity!Superpower: EmpathyLISTEN ONLINE: www.poweruphero.orgAshley Arevalo is a menstrual equity activist from Corpus Christi, Texas. She got her start in menstrual equity when she started a Go Fund Me in November of 2016 to raise money to donate products to shelters. Since then she started her own PERIOD the menstrual movement chapter and has donated over 70,000 products to the Coastal Bend. One of her greatest achievements is successfully petitioning to get free menstrual products at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. In 2020, she stayed busy by starting her own non-profit called Crimson Cause and meeting with legislators virtually to introduce a bill to end the tampon tax in Texas. In her free time, she loves watching horror movies and shopping for vintage clothes.For more information about Ashley go to: www.instagram.com/crimsoncause Congratulations on being our PowerUp Hero of Gender Equity.Nominate our next hero here: www.poweruphero.orgPowerUp Your Life.#PowerUpHero #Hero #NextGen#WakeUpToPowerUp #PotentiaSursum#EliminateTechPoverty #WeAreAllHeroes#PowerUpWork #TimeToWorkwww.poweruphero.org

✨Congratulations to Kendra Kinnison on being our PowerUp Hero of Excellence!Superpower: Teamwork

✨Congratulations to Dr. Amy Aldridge Sanford on being our PowerUp Hero of Allyship!Superpower: Social EmpathyLISTEN ONLINE: www.poweruphero.orgDr. Amy Aldridge Sanford grew up in rural Oklahoma in a homogenous community of 1,600 people. She was clueless to its lack of diversity and could not spell, define, or pronounce homogeneous. She used Pell grants and scholarships to pay for college, where her social justice consciousness was continuously challenged and refined. She graduated with a PhD in communication studies in 2006 from the University of Iowa. Today, Amy is an author, professor, and associate provost at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, an Hispanic-Serving Institution of 12,000 students in South Texas. She is the past president of the Central States Communication Association and has been honored with many local, state and national awards, including University Communication Educator of the Year in both Texas and Oklahoma. Amy lives with Gene, her spouse of 15 years, and their seven rescued pets. For more information go to: https://twitter.com/aasanford Congratulations on being our PowerUp Hero of AllyshipNominate our next hero here: www.poweruphero.orgPowerUp Your Life.#PowerUpHero #WorkHuman #NextGen#EliminateTechPoverty #PowerUpWork#WakeUpToPowerUp #PotentiaSursum#TimeToWork #Herowww.powerup.org

In this episode, Carol interviews internationally known vocal performer, composer, teacher, author, and sound therapist, Flicka Rahn. Flicka is also a distinguished Academician. She was a member of the music faculty at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Brandeis University in Boston, the Boston Conservatory of Music, and the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio. She holds an M.M.Ed. from Texas State University and an M.S. in Guidance and Counseling from Texas A&M. Her book, The Transformational Power of Sound and Music, co-authored with Tammy McCrary, is a recent silver award winner in the Living Now Awards, IPPY, spiritual healing category. She and her co-composer, Daniel Wyman, perform throughout the U.S. and Europe as Icaros, a duo of the keyboard, percussion, crystal singing bowls, and voice. They have two CDs available on all music platforms, Chakra Soundscapes, and Hymns to Gaia. In addition to her professional career as a musician, she is a Sound Therapist at the Integrative Healing Institute in San Antonio. In this interview, Flicka shares her extensive research into music and sound as a vehicle for healing and creating harmony. We can all be more aware of the music and sounds around us and how we resonate or feel repelled by them. Flicka provides some enlightening examples. Show Notes: Spiritual experiences leading to healing through music Finding the zero point Web of sonic magic Patterns in indigenous music Chakra sounds The science of Cymatics Discussion of musical elements – 440 Hz, 433 Hz, Fractals, and the Fibonacci spiral Sound as an Rx Social Media: http://www.flickarahn.com/ https://twitter.com/flicka_rahn https://www.facebook.com/flickarahnofficial Multi-Media: C.D.s on Amazon:  Chakra Soundscapes and Hymns to Gaia Book on Amazon: The Transformational Power of Sound and Music Authors Mentioned: Bruce Lipton Gregg Braden Note To Listeners: The Hearts Rise Up Podcast has been listed on Feedspot's Top 35 Wisdom Podcasts You Must Follow In 2021."

Head Strength Coach and PE Chair at Greater Atlanta Christian School in Atlanta, GA. Previously the Head S&C Coach at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi in 2014 before being hired by Coach Gary Schofield in 2016 as GAC's first Assistant Strength Coach. Transitioning to HS S&C was an answered prayer for my wife and I who at the time were seeking a better family life. I had been at TAMU-CC my whole career up until then and felt like Gary and GAC were the perfect opportunity for us. Even though Corpus Christi was our hometown, Georgia is home for us now and we love our community here and GAC family.   Coach’s Contact Information riburnett@greateratlantachristian.org Twitter: @CoachRichB Instagram: @CoachB89 _______________________________________________________ TeamBuildr Thank you TeamBuildr for sponsoring today's episode. Teambuildr is the leading software for high schools and colleges by providing coaches the ability to write programs online, generate over 13 reports and even train athletes remotely for side-income. Right now, if you sign up with code BigTime, you will receive a free APRE programming template which works automatically within TeamBuildr. No more spreadsheets and workout cards to track training maxes that change day by day. Automate your programming without outsourcing your programming with TeamBuildr." af.tbldr.co/BigTime _______________________________________________________ Power Lift Power Lift is the leading manufacturer and distributor of heavy duty strength training equipment for Collegiate and High School athletic performance centers around the world. Power Lift brings over 20 years of experience to the strength and conditioning world. All products are manufactured in their state of the art manufacturing facility in Jefferson, IA.  Power Lift is proud to support all coaches making it the Big Time where they are at. Mike Richardson - mrichardson@power-lift.com _______________________________________________________ Big Time Strength Contact Info Email: bigtimestrength@gmail.com Twitter: @BigTime_SC,  Instagram: bigtimestrength Gage Rosier Contact Info Twitter: @gdrosier Instagram: g.rosier Preston Pedersen Contact Info Twitter: @CoachPedersenMV Instagram: coach_pedersen Amanda Berg Contact Info Twitter: @ChargerTough Instagram: chargertough Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the episode please subscribe, like, share, or leave a comment.

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Chantel Eubanks was born in Panama City, Panama, to a military family. She grew up in San Antonio, TX, and, from a young age,m has had a burning passion for the arts. She played the violin and viola and got involved with theatre arts in high school, where she took an interest in acting. When she went to college, she studied communication with an emphasis in media studies, along with a minor in theatre. She graduated in 2012 from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. She was off to Florida, where she spent seven years working for Orlando-area theme parks and was involved with the indie film scene. She worked as an actor, a production assistant, and as a hair and makeup intern. She also was a part of the Coffee or Tea cast with bUneke.org, which she holds dear to her heart. Chantel recently moved back to Texas, and has started a career in voice acting. She has provided her voice for audio dramas, indie projects, video games and internet ads. She also works for two Texas theme parks. In March 2020, she began her master's program in Media & Arts Management and Promotion at Regent University.  Learn more! www.chanteleubanks.com and follow her on social media.

Our guests today is a couple that found love in STEM. Brianne Martin & Fernando A Ceballos P.E are 2 engineers who met while serving the STEM community. Brianne has a BS Mechanical Engineer from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (after transferring from Marquette University 1000 miles away from home) & is on the leadership team of a community non-profit.  Fernando has a BS Civil Engineer - Texas A&M University (College Station), Professional Engineer. As 2 of the few Latinx Engineers, The Engineering Couple share about life, growth, and career through personal, professional, & leadership development.   In this episode they both share honest, vulnerable, and triumphant accounts about their lives, work, and the impact they've made through their community leadership and ventures. We discuss: 1) What they both do for a living? 2) How they met during a STEM event? 3) How to be a supportive partner and be successful in STEM? 4) The ups and downs of being a couple in a high demanding career. Listen Now to celebrate this amazing couple and their STEM Love story!   Links: www.briannecmartin.com www.instagram.com/briannecmartin www.instagram.com/fdoceballos The People Engineer Podcast Dealing With Lifestuff Podcast

The Transformational Power of Sound and Music with Flicka Rahn M.M.ED., MSC Flicka Rahn is an internationally known vocal performer, author, teacher and published composer. She served on the music faculty at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi for 22 years in addition to Brandeis University in Boston, and the Boston Conservatory of Music. As a professional soprano she has appeared with the Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Philharmonic, New York Wagner Society, Minnesota Grand Opera, San Antonio Opera and the Sinfonia de Queretaro, Mexico. She has traveled throughout Mexico with notable Mexican artists presenting Uniting Nations through Music. In addition to her active professional career, she is a sound therapist at the Integrative Healing Institute in Texas and workshop shop facilitator for the Transformational Power of Sound Workshops. Her art songs for soprano and piano have been published in the Southern Music series, Art Songs by American Women Composers. Her recently published book is The Transformational Power of Sound and Music:A Handbook for Sounds Healer and Musicians . www.powerofsoundandmusic.com

About Eric I'm running because the communities of the 27th Congressional District deserve better - a true public servant. I've been fighting for disenfranchised communities across the country and it's time to bring that fight home. I was born and raised in South Texas to a working-class Tejano family, and it's about time that the people are represented by someone who represents true South Texas values. I will stand alongside you every step of the way to make sure we can go beyond dreaming and start achieving. GET TO KNOW ME... My name is Eric Holguin. I was born and raised in a working class family in South Texas, and graduated from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. My father is a respected teacher and championship winning football coach, and my mother is a caring nurse. I’m also very proud to come from a law enforcement family. My two brothers are Texas State Troopers, close relatives work in various levels of law enforcement, and my grandfather was a Justice of the Peace for many years in Jim Hogg County. My support system is mi familia, and they’ve always taught me to work for what I want and never ask for freebies. My late abuela, Maria, taught me to always stand up for those who can’t do so for themselves. She had to do so as a single mother raising my father and tio. Read More Here: http://www.ericforus.com/

Andrea Valdez has been an athlete her entire life. As a former competitive gymnast and long-time coach in the sport, she developed a discipline and respect for the powers that strong minds and bodies can achieve. This led her to continued success in competitive cheerleading and bodybuilding throughout her journey in higher level education. She received a Kinesiology degree from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi with an emphasis in Sports Management and a Minor in Business Administration. Upon graduation, she worked as a Marketing Intern for a Major League Soccer organization, the Houston Dynamo. Andrea then continued on to teach and research at the University of Oklahoma, where she earned her Master’s Degree in Exercise Physiology. Her scholarly development and professional experiences in training, coaching, teaching and mentoring lead her to begin a career as an author and video content provider for her own personal website and YouTube channel, both of which began in 2012. Andrea became a 3DMJ athlete for her next figure season in 2013 and for powerlifting in 2014. She continued her journey with the team by teaching alongside the other 3DMJ coaches at posing clinics, and helping to create digital products and content for the 3D Muscle Journey website. After months of collaborating as a project manager and writer, she was officially added as the fifth 3DMJ coach in September 2015. Also in 2015, she had the pleasure of co-authoring a pair of books with Eric Helms and Andy Morgan titled The Muscle and Strength Pyramids. These nutrition and training guides have become the industry standard for anyone trying to gain strength or manipulate body composition. During her current figure off-season, Andrea has begun training in Olympic weightlifting and gymnastics-based movements to pursue competition in a new sport called GRID. She continues to journal her athletic experiences on all of her social media platforms and throughout her personal website at AndreaValdez.com.

Born and raised in Humble, Texas, Christopher Melia moved to Corpus Christi in 2001 to extend his education at Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi.  Shortly after engaging in ceramic courses offered at the university, he became an apprentice to a local studio potter, William Wilhelmi.  In 2006, he received his BFA in Ceramics.  He continued to work for Wilhelmi and take additional classes until moving to Denton, Texas for graduate school at the University of North Texas.  Chris finished his MFA in 2011.  He currently lives in Whitesboro TX with his wife and two sons, teaches at Little Elm High School, and makes work in his home studio.

Sponsored by the School of Arts, Media, and Communication at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, and hosted by Joe Peña, Assistant Professor of Art, SAMC ARTalk interviews some of the best artists, curators, and Gallery Directors we've had the pleasure of meeting.  In this episode, Joe interviews well known painter and performer Fahamu Pecou during his exhibition Fahamu Pecou: Re-Membering which was on display at TAMUCC January through February of 2016.   Special thanks to TAMUCC President Flavious Killabrew, Provost Kelly Quintailla, Dean Mark Hartlaub, Gallery Director Laura Petican and Staff, the faculty in the art department  , Rich Gere, Chair of the Art Department, and Mr. Fahamu Pecou himself!

Sponsored by the School of Arts, Media, and Communication at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, and hosted by Joe Peña, Assistant Professor of Art, SAMC ARTalk interviews some of the best artists, curators, and Gallery Directors we've had the pleasure of meeting.  In this episode, Joe interviews well known painter and performer Fahamu Pecou during his exhibition Fahamu Pecou: Re-Membering which was on display at TAMUCC January through February of 2016.   Special thanks to TAMUCC President Flavious Killabrew, Provost Kelly Quintailla, Dean Mark Hartlaub, Gallery Director Laura Petican and Staff, the faculty in the art department  , Rich Gere, Chair of the Art Department, and Mr. Fahamu Pecou himself!

Recorded on May 28, 2013 at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, Assistant Professor of Art Joe Pena speaks with renowned French printmaker Marc Brunier Mestas on his work, his process, and love of Texas. 

Recorded on May 28, 2013 at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, Assistant Professor of Art Joe Pena speaks with renowned French printmaker Marc Brunier Mestas on his work, his process, and love of Texas. 

THE WILD MAN OF THE NAVIDAD is an unsettling brew of dark comedy, suspense and terror, adapted from real-life journals kept in the early 1970's by Dale S. Rogers while living in Sublime - a town in a sparsely populated part of Texas about 100 miles north of where the movie was lensed. Mr. Rogers lived with his invalid wife, Jean, and hired hand, Mario, in a quaint ranch house on a plantation that can be traced back through at least five generations of his family. It was in this region, in the mid 1800's, that the legend of the wild man was born - a story many believe to be the first documented sightings of a Sasquatch-like being in South Texas. This vintage horror tale debunks history books to tell the veracious, harrowing story of a rural community whose residents were terrified for years by a mysterious creature inhabiting the nearby woods The Wild Man of the Navidad is a 2008 much-praised horror film picked up by IFC Films shortly after its world premiere at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, and is slated to debut on the Independent Film Channel's Festival Direct platform February 11, 2009. The film is a throwback to drive-in Sasquatch classics of the 1970's like The Legend of Boggy Creek, and is unique in its extremely accurate recreation of their specific vintage style, pacing and feel -- from the vivid, real-life characters all the way down to the period production design and hometown music. The film was co-produced by Kim Henkel, co-writer of the original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre with Tobe Hooper in 1974, and was written, directed and edited by two of Mr. Henkel's screenwriting/production students at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, Justin Meeks and Duane Graves. Join us on Nite Callers tonight as we welcome Justin and Duane to share with us how they brought history and legend to the big screen. http://ifcfilms.com/viewFilm.htm?filmId=1376