What Happens When Hollywood Comes to Town?

In the 1977 Steven Spielberg film “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” the aliens came to town.

My town, actually: Muncie, Indiana.

Much of the first half of the movie – the initial UFO sightings, the disappearance of the little boy, the growing obsession of the Richard Dreyfuss character, and said character’s efforts to find the quaintly-named Cornbread Road – takes place in the town where I was born.