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FORT WORTH, Texas, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- A Texas man has found viral fame not just for the unusual train-like trailers on his tractor, but for the dogs he takes for rides.
Eugene Bostick, 80, has become well known to residents of his Fort Worth neighborhood for the daily drives he takes in his tractor with a "train" of homemade plastic barrel trailers that each contain one of the rescue dogs he and his brother have adopted.
"One day I was out and I seen this guy with a tractor who attached these carts to pull rocks. I thought, 'Dang, that would do for a dog train.' I'm a pretty good welder, so I took these plastic barrels with holes cut in them, and put wheels under them and tied them together," Bostick told The Dodo.
Bostick rose to viral fame with pictures and videos of his dog train posted on social media.
Chaz Ebert is a dear friend and we had a chance to chat while she was in Los Angles by phone. Chaz and I share the same hair stylist and often visit in the salon. I saw her take care of her late husband, Roger Ebert. If it were up to me she would receive the SAINT award. I saw her up close and personal and admired her every move. She stayed positive, with loving patience.
We had an opportunity to catch up and talk about life without Roger. She is busy as ever, working on a variety of projects. Our conversation centered on the play, Black and White Love written and produced by Jackie Taylor now showing at the Black Ensemble Theater.
The play brilliantly captures the interracial love story of Roger and Chaz. The cast includes a main couple and four other couples as their story is dramatized to music. The story in the form of a musical goes through the challenges of a terminal illness, and how this couple was challenged and conquered. Roger had thyroid cancer that eventually took his jawbone. The arch of the story is as long as they loved they were okay.
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NDIGO: What have you been doing lately?
CHAZ: I am writing a book, that is a semi memoir. But I can’t talk about it too much. The book will be about life before Roger and life with Roger. I will discuss the spiritual qualities of our lives.
NDIGO: I have read that you are working on a movie, The Emmitt Till Story.
CHAZ: I am producing a movie on the life of Emmitt Till. We are the only filmmaker working with the Till estate. Our story will be told in Mamie Till’s [Emmitt’ late mother] own words. We are developing the movie with the script, production team and interviewing actors. We have acquired the intellectual property.
NDIGO: I understand Jay Z and Wil Smith are also working on The Emmitt Till Story. What do you think about that?
CHAZ: I am glad others are involved. It will help race relations and some good will come from the tragedy.
Chaz is becoming a movie producer
NDIGO: What else are you doing?
CHAZ: We are working on a TV production, “Great Movie Series.”
NDIGO: How is Roger’s online site?
CHAZ: Roger and I founded RogerEbert.com. We were ahead of the curve. We urged the Sun Times to become active online Today, we have over 40 movie critics from all over the world. There are four editors and two assistant editors. We have foreign correspondents in France, Brazil, Egypt, Australia, Mexico, Poland, Canada, England, South Korea and the Philippines. All of these people are writing about movies from their perspectives. The site attracts 30% of the traffic from outside of the United States and I asked correspondents from all over the world to share their point of view.
NDIGO: What did you think about Jackie Taylor’s play based on you and Roger?
CHAZ: I like it every much. I was there for opening night. I am pleased. It shows how important music was to the both of us and what an important role it played in our lives. Often music can take on serious issues and talk about them in seriously. The casting was well done. Rashid Dawen plays me and Kevin Pollack plays Roger. They both do a fine job. During intermission many people thought that I was on stage playing myself.
Jackie told our story. We traveled the world and found racism unacceptable. The plays points out things maybe many didn’t know. Roger lived for his grandchildren. He had cancer when we married and it had been in remission for 10 years and reoccurred after we married. The story shares the depth of our living and the challenges we faced as a couple. The story is about our life and our love. Jackie did a fine job and I was amazed at how she presented it. Music was important to us. Our first date was at the Lyric Opera. We loved music from the Opera to the Blues.
The Eberts on the red carpet.
NDIGO: Jackie is always great, I wondered if the story should have been a drama. The play, deals with so many serious issues, illness and eventually death.
CHAZ: There are a lot of things you can do with music that you just can’t do with a drama.
FORT WORTH -- I came to Fort Worth, Texas thinking I had seen everything, when out rolled evidence to the contrary -- a guy on a mower pulling nine dogs on a train.
That's a new one. In fact, the only thing more surprising than the sight, may be the story behind it.
The train ride is the brain child of brothers Eugene and Walter Bostick, and it's just a small part of their much larger mission to improve the lives of every single critter they come across. The Bosticks, who live in the same 11 acre woods they grew up in, spend thousands of dollars a year just feeding the wildlife here.
Dog train in Texas.
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"You name 'em - 'coons, 'possums," said Walter.
"Beaver," Eugene chimed in.
"No, we don't...Oh yeah, the beaver does eat corn and bread," Walter responded.
They don't miss so much as a mallard. And if you're wondering why they have this insatiable need to feed, the answer is simple -- childhood guilt.
Dog train in Texas, the brainchild of two brothers.
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"When we first moved here we killed them all. The rule of the day was anything that moved we shot," the brothers said.
But now these repentant hunters are making amends in any way they can think of, which brings us back to the train. Over the years a lot of stray dogs have wandered onto the property. Of course they're cared for, but that wasn't enough for the Bostick boys who thought these mutts might enjoy a little movement as well.
"You'd be surprised how good it makes you feel to see them loading up and how happy they are," Walter said.
Texas brothers Eugene and Walter Bostick.
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The train departs once a week for an hour of pure joy. The mangy misfits -- now the envy of the neighborhood. The dogs no one wanted -- now like celebrities on a catwalk.
Their giant chew-chew toy takes the dogs mostly through the local warehouse district, but for the brothers, each trip takes them one step closer to redemption.
Certainly if all dogs go to heaven, you know there's gotta be room for those who engineer their happiness.
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English: Aerial view of the White House in Washington, D.C. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Lawn in front of the White House, Washington, DC. Français : La pelouse devant la Maison Blanche, Washington (District de Columbia), États-Unis. Italiano: Il giardino di fronte alla Casa Bianca a Washington, Stati Uniti d'America. 日本語: ワシントンD.C.ホワイトハウス前の芝地。 Polski: Trawnik ogrodu Białego Domu, Waszyngton, Dystrykt Columbia (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Mrs. Obama is putting down her marker as a champion for education for girls around the world. I think it tells us something about what she’s going to do after she leaves the White House. And she’s not prepping a run for herself for the White House. This is kind of a pure ideological commitment.
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