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My Great Great Great Great Great Grandfather

Turkey Day

Early Radio, Hanover, PA

WHVR

Broadcasting in the late 1940s from the Trust Building on Center Square in Hanover, Pennsylvania, WHVR's first announcers were Mack Edwards, Ed John, Ned Rutledge, and Chuck Zink.

Mack Edwards and Chuck Zink went on to jobs in television -- Edwards in Baltimore and Zink in Miami. Besides his announcing duties, Ed John (‘the fella with the two first names”) also owned a pet shop in Hanover. Ned Rutledge stayed with WHVR for over 50 years.

I listened religiously to Chuck Zinc who had an evening show called Pot Luck With Chuck. He played the songs of the day and had some running patter with a little dummy whose name escapes me. I could never understand the concept of a dummy on the radio. I remember Zinc heading a March of Dimes drive for polio. People would call in and pledge money to the drive and a member of the Happy Ramblers Motorcycle Club would pick it up.

On Saturday mornings, WHVR broadcast from the Victory restaurant on Broadway, sponsored by Utz Potato Chips. Edwards and later Rutledge would interview patrons and always make a big to do over someone celebrating a birthday.

On Saturday evening at 7:00, the Reverend Ralph Rudisill presided during a remote broadcast from The Gospel Tabernacle, a local church in Hanover. Rudisill was "fire and brimstone" kind of a pastor with a Pennsylvania Dutch accent who whipped his flock into a frenzy - “Come down through the roof, Lord," he shouted, "we’ll pay for the shingles!!” Wish I had a recording of one of those broadcasts; they were unbelieveable.

Country music in the morning: Hank Snow, Roy Acuff, Hank Williams, Lefty Frisell.

In the late afternoon, I came home from school and listened to Sky King and the Green Hornet on a Mutual Broadcasting System feed.

And on Sunday evening, the family would listen to Jack Benny, Amos and Andy, and Phil Harris on the old FADA radio in the living room.

Wonderful memories of a unique time in broadcasting!

Moon Over the Longarm

Nancy

Hangin' On

The leaves of the Ginkgo remain on the tree until late in the season and then can all fall rapidly in a single or a few days and even in 1 or 2 hours!

Autumn in the Wahington D.C. Area

The Biggest Billygoat Gruff

Victory from the Jaws of Defeat

Redskins 22 - Cowboys 19

Less then twenty seconds left in the game...the Cowboys line up for an easy game-winning field goal...I turn to my friend and say 'that's the game'....but NO...the Redskins block the field goal and return the ball into Cowboys territory where the Skins set up for a field goal and, miracle of miracles, they MAKE it! The game changes on a dime and emotions change on a dime too which made the victory seem more intense and much more satisfying.

Renfrew Park

The farmhouse and barn in Renfrew Park, Waynesboro, Pennsylvania

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Formerly the property of a Pennsylvania German tanner, the once self-sustaining farmstead now is 107 acres of parkland with fifty acres designated as a wilderness/wildlife preserve.

Partial Limericks

…To do what, and with which, and to whom.

…And lightening shot out of his ass!

…And finished her off in mid-air.

…T'was Roger the Lodger by god!

…But his balls hung out and he lost 'em.

…and her tits on a hill in Brazil!

Pole Steeple

Pole Steeple Cliffs sit 526 feet above some picturesque lakes near the mid-point of the Appalachian Trail in Pine Grove Furnace State Park, PA. The rugged quartzite cliffs are estimated to be at least 300 million years old.