For your viewing pleasure, there are scads of great hamshack and ham radio set images over on Retronaut where they’ve labeled them “the first internet.” It really was.
Category: Radio Girl
Welles and Woodstock
In front of the Woostock Opera House, May 2014
So I went to Woodstock. Not that Woodstock; I mean the village in Illinois where Orson Welles attended boarding school as a kid. He wasn’t born there, but since he had a sort of atypical upbringing biographers point to the Todd School as maybe the first stable environment he had ever experienced. He certainly made the most of his time there, and in later years Welles tended to think of Woodstock as his hometown.
What does Welles’ adopted hometown do to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the theater festival Orson co-produced so after graduating from the Todd School? A whole lot of events and exhibits! They bring in Welles experts (and I mean experts–these people knew their subject). They hold a film festival at the local historic movie house (We screened The Lady from Shanghai) and offer all kinds of other Welles/Todd School-related stuff.
Mother-Daughter Book Group Guide
Radio Girl by Carol Brendler Holiday House, 2013
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It’s here! Now there’s a discussion guide for Radio Girl for mother/daughter book groups, complete with an online old-time radio listening guide and a recipe for an authentic egg cream, Cecelia’s favorite thirst quencher! Click image below to see it full size and to download. If you use it, let me know how you like it.
For educators, there is also a nifty classroom guide prepared by publisher Holiday House to download for free!
Book Club Guide for RADIO GIRL
Carol Brendler Books 