When I did my series on my days in Harrisburg and my friendship with AJ Moulfair awhile back, I wasn’t subscribed to the newspaper archive.

Now that I am, I found some articles that have stirred some memories.

For example, in either August or September of 1979 I threw a party, and of course, AJ was of the invitees.

As it happened, he had recently spent some time in New York City where he had seen a bunch of Broadway shows (and I subbed for him on his Opera Showcase radio program). So he received an invitation to speak at the Harrisburg Civic Club on the topic of current Broadway shows and to recommend the best ones for their members to attend.

So he used my party to preview his speech. Although I hadn’t planned it, I couldn’t have asked for a better entertainer. AJ was an excellent raconteur, cut from the same mold as Gore Vidal, and he had the rest of the party-goers in stitches as he went through the litany of Broadway shows and concluded that of the current crop there was none that was suitable for the ladies of the Civic Club.

Apparently he moderated his view slightly by the time he actually spoke at the club, at least according to this news clipping.

I did not see this article at the time, or I most certainly would have have given a AJ a good talking to. “Music wasn’t great”? Huh!

I guess his penance was that awful picture of him in the paper.