Grover’s Mill! Yeah, I went there, 75 years later. There’s a park and a plaque, and signs along a path with background info about Orson Welles and the panic broadcast of 1938, all on the exact spot where the Martians were said to have landed!
Category: All About Radio!
The War of the Worlds–Seventy-five Years Later
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) has produced a show about that fateful night when young actor/director Orson Welles’s radio production of H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds sent so many people into a panic. AND IT’S ON TONIGHT AT 9:00pm, or 8:00pm Central where I live!
Here’s a very tiny snip:
http://video.pbs.org/video/2365100679/
Should I point out that the actual anniversary is tomorrow, not today? Nah.
Launch Day: the Movie
Hot off the cutting room floor! Here’s the video of launch day for Radio Girl, including must-see clips of folks whistling “like canaries.”
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Carol Brendler is the author of the young adult novel RADIO GIRL (Holiday House) September 5, 2013.
Coming 2014: A picture book, NOT VERY SCARY, illustrated by Greg Pizzoli, from FSG.
Also by Carol Brendler: WINNIE FINN, WORM FARMER (FSG, 2009) a picture book illustrated by Ard Hoyt.