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Lebanon Daily Digest Wednesday, July 08, 2026

Ty McDuffey

08 Jul 2026 — 1 min read

Ty's Take

There's something about a Hollywood crew finding their way to Laclede County that makes you stop and think about what we've got here that the rest of the world wants to see. They're not coming for the interstate or the strip malls—they're coming for the stories, the kind that stick with people who grew up running the roads between here and Bennett Spring, or whose families built boats in those plants, or who remember when Route 66 was the only way through. A film that digs into Laclede County memories is really just another way of saying somebody finally noticed that ordinary lives in ordinary places aren't ordinary at all when you pay attention to them. That premiere's going to draw folks from here and somewhere else, and for one night both of those worlds will be looking at the same screen. Might be worth seeing what they see.

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Preview: Hollywood premiere planned for film about Laclede County memories

A Lebanon native will see his short film premiere at Hollywood's TCL Chinese Theatre on June 23 as part of the Dances With Films festival. Dusty Dale Barker's six-minute film "Marigold" features vintage footage of a Bennett Spring farm and is named after a road on his family's property. Barker, a...

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