For the January Book Photo Challenge on Tumblr (Books and Cupcakes), I made this. I think of it often.
Grover’s Mill, New Jersey!
The marker is bigger than I thought!
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!
Grovers Pond is adjacent.
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!
Will you watch with me?
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.
Carol Brendler Books 