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The road, which Music lovers, art
plays such a aficionados, and fans of
big part in a Buddy Holly and the
musician’s life, Crickets can own a print
leads viewers of this inspiring piece.
into the picture. Limited-edition canvas
The Lubbock prints and posters are
skyline sets available for purchase
the scene and at www.LEPAA.org/
the legendary art. The original piece is
musicians are the than Paul,” said Terry Allen in a partially underwritten by
focal point. The turn row suggests a statement on www.milosevichart. the Lubbock Osteopathic Fund, and
plowed cotton field on the lower left com. “In retrospect, Paul’s presence proceeds from print sales benefit
and the Crickets logo is on the lower was a huge influence on the making The Buddy Holly Hall.
right. Buddy Holly is naturally the of music in Lubbock, if simply by
dominant figure and the Crickets the people he
are supporting actors set against a introduced to one
star-studded sky. another.”

“Knowing J.I. Allison and Joe B. Milosevich was
Mauldin personally, I felt them inducted into the
looking over my shoulder as I West Texas Walk
painted,” Milosevich said. of Fame in 1996,
and the Nashville
The original 60x60 acrylic-on-canvas Songwriters Hall
painting will proudly be hung of Fame in 1992
inside The Buddy Holly Hall.
for his work on
“I don’t think any visual artist over 100 charcoal
has had more of a connection to portraits of
the making of Lubbock music musicians.

LUBBOCK LANDS THE WILCZAKS by Jane Bromley

“I would have moved here after college, Lubbock his permanent residence. “I’m off” of the American Niagara Falls by
if I’d known about this place.” Those are telling you, moving here opened my the Army Corps of Engineers in 1969
words from someone who was born and eyes to people. Everyone is nice, friend- and the construction of the famous
raised in beautiful upstate New York ly, and courteous.” Grand Canyon Skywalk commissioned
and who has lived and worked all over by the Hualapai Indian tribe in Arizona.
the world. After he left the comfortable atmo-
sphere of North Tonawanda, NY, where He has nothing but praise for his latest
Rick Wilczak, VP of Design and Con- he grew up, Rick earned a Civil Engi- project, the Buddy Holly Hall, using
struction for Garfield Public Private and neering degree from Bradley University words like “unique, versatile, for-
Project Executive for Buddy Holly Hall in Peoria, IL and went on to work on ward-thinking, almost futuristic.” He
loves West Texas. He has sold his home engineering projects all over the world, says the planners thought of everything
in Las Vegas and is planning to make including involvement in the “shutting for the multi-use space, mentioning fea-

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