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August 2008 |
A new species of butterfly discovered, named carterocephalus eakinsatus. |
January 2008 |
Rock band Dolman Hardy releases debut album, The
Hardy Boys, on Spinal Fist Records. |
| September 2007 |
Whoever
Tells Me He's Dead Will Die, Lars von Riij's documentary
about Eakins' mysterious disappearance, premieres at the Hudson
Film Festival. |
| April 2007 |
An Iranian made-for-television
movie of Tobin the Lesser is
aired on a European cable station. It is banned in Iran. |
| January 2007 |
“What
is Sacrament?” is
a question on Jeopardy. “Great book,” remarks host Alex Trebek. |
| October 2006 |
“Hypogeum,”
republished in the Southwestern
Quarterly’s fall
issue, with personal responses to the story by seven writers. |
| May 2006 |
At the Castro Theater, The Eakins Society of San Francisco
hosts a festival of twenty-four films believed to have been written
by the author. |
| March 2006 |
In Search of Eakins: A Painful Journey, by D.W. Cobblewaithe,
published. |
| February 2006 |
The Eakinsistas Revolutionary Party of Ecuador is disbanded
after failed coup-d'etat. Flags with Eakins's face are burned
in the Plaza de la Independencia in Quito. |
| December 2005 |
Publication of William Gainey's novel, The
Slugger From Pendleton, in which the character of the reclusive author Kent Jenkins is
based on Eakins. Optioned for film in 2007. |
| May 2005 |
Eakins appears in a brief cameo on the situational comedy,
The Simpsons (voiced by actor Bill Janeway). Eakins is seen on
safari in Africa, hunting lions with a spear and eating a hot
dog. |
| March 2005 |
Eakins Society of St. Rose, Louisiana, celebrates its fiftieth
anniversary with gala celebration and Mississippi River boat
tour of sites from Eakins's early Louisiana stories. |
