31 Days of Halloween — October 30, 2013

Today marks the 75th anniversary of Orson Welles’ broadcast of THE WAR OF THE WORLDS.     Welles, and his Mercury Theater players, produced a radio play on October 30, 1938 based on HG Wells’ book.  Though it was preceded by a disclaimer that it was a fiction, the play itself was interwoven with “fake”…

31 Days of Halloween — October 28, 2013

It is well known that the old Manton house is haunted. In all the rural district near about, and even in the town of Marshall, a mile away, not one person of unbiased mind entertains a doubt of it; incredulity is confined to those opinionated persons who will be called “cranks” as soon as the…