C-Span covers Beaumont culture - KiiiTV3.com South Texas, Corpus Christi, Coastal Bend

Camera crews from C-SPAN are spending their week in Beaumont.

The network is recording the city's history and literary life for use on the cable network's C-SPAN-2 and C-SPAN-3.

Producers will be spending the week interviewing local historians, authors and civic leaders. The programming will include stories on the Spindletop-Gladys City Museum,  The McFaddin-Ward house and the Texas energy museum.

a special public kick-off event was held Tuesday at the Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown museum.

The programs will air February 4th and 5th on Book-TV and American history TV.