SUNDAY SPECIAL | Mahoning Valley community boasts connection to "Star Wars" film series

KINSMAN

“Star Wars” fans eagerly await Thursday for the latest chapter in the science-fiction saga.

But few Mahoning Valley fans realize that more than 40 years ago, a Kinsman home is where the force awoke for the series’ first sequel.

Leigh Brackett, a prolific science fiction author and screenwriter, wrote the first draft of 1980’s “The Empire Strikes Back” from the house where she spent her summers in that town until her death in 1978.

Read MUCH MORE in Sunday's VINDICATOR. (Especially if you are a Star Wars fan!)