Photo courtesy San Jacinto MuseumThe Gothic comedy The Miss Firecracker Contest closes on Sunday. Pulitzer-Prize winner Beth Henley's play is about Carnelle, a young woman with a less-than-perfect past who has entered the local beauty pageant in order to restore not only her reputation but her self-esteem as well. She's getting a little help from a cast of only-in-the-south eccentrics. There's a faded beauty queen, a fresh-from-the-mental-ward cousin, and a seamstress who got her start sewing ou
