Extras on Sod and Stubble by Sharon Black

Extra-Francis Washburn

What is it really like to be an extra in a movie? As they say, it’s not very glamorous and there is a lot of waiting and waiting.

Waiting we did in Kansas during the filming of Sod & Stubble. The script was written by Ken Spurgeon, based upon the book written originally by John Ise.

Since it is a local book written about the area of Downs in Osborne County Kansas, There are still a lot of relatives in the area and far away. A few of the Ise ancestors were extras in the movie. But not all the extras got their face in the movie.

I was lucky enough to be seen in the funeral procession of Henry Ise. That scene was filmed in a morning, which was not very hot, but the auction scene at the newly constructed house was 100 or over.

I have been lucky enough to meet just about all of the cast, which were in Downs and Osborne, Kansas and events for the movie Home on the Range. That movie I helped write and was also directed by Ken Spurgeon.

Details are still being worked out for the release of the movie other than a local town showing.

: Extra Mary Lattin-Historian for Smith County historical Society

: Extra-Sharon Black

: Extra Vernon Reinking-He is also the Smith County treasurer

: Extra Susan Heller on left and sister Amy Timmons

: Linda Miller Selling Merchandise

: Extra-Francis Washburn

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Sharon Black

Sharon Black has been writing for many years including newspapers, short stories, and as a publisher. She was born in Nebraska and has lived in Kansas most of her life. In her hometown of Smith Center, Kansas, Willa Cather’s hometown is to the north and Bob Dole’s hometown is to the south. Sharon is a press release writer for the National Parks Arts Foundation and writes for b U n e k e magazine. The biggest project she has accomplished is the co-writer of the TV movie Home on the Range. The movie is about the song, which is the state song of Kansas and the lawsuit surrounding it in the 1930s and finding the rightful author of the song. Sharon is distantly related to the Mississippi writer Eudora Welty.

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