This is the fifth installment of the WMSP series that began here. During the year I spent at WMSP, I got to know a bunch of the people there, some of whom I can put a name to, and some of whom I cannot. Joyce Tracy is one of the former. She was a woman … Continue reading Other Notable WMSP Folks
Harrisburg
A Very Special Episode
This is the fourth installment of a series. Catch with Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. One of the downsides of hosting the Tuesday edition of Musical Offering was that it already had a programmer, a lovely woman whose name I no longer recall, nor can I find her name on any of the saved … Continue reading A Very Special Episode
April, 1979
This is the third in a series that began with Part 1 and Part 2. Before I began searching through the boxes of saved letters and stuff, I’d have sworn that my volunteer career as a classical host on WMSP lasted nearly two years, but documents don’t lie. I didn’t get my Third Class License … Continue reading April, 1979
AJ and JT Go to Philly
This is the second part of a series that began with Part 1. I can’t find anything to help me date when Pat introduced me to AJ Moulfair, nor can I recall anything specific that can help me assign an approximate date to it. Best guess is that it was sometime in the fall of … Continue reading AJ and JT Go to Philly
AJ and Patrick and George – Oh My!
My memories of my time in Harrisburg don’t conform to reality. I lived there for three months shy of three years and it seems like I couldn’t possibly have done all the things I remember doing in such a short time. But my memory is wrong. For example, relying on my memory, I didn’t think … Continue reading AJ and Patrick and George – Oh My!
246 East 49th Street
One of the many surprises that I found as I’ve been going through the boxes of collected stuff is an empty envelope from my Harrisburg days with the return address of 246 East 49th Street, NYC. Now who could that be? It took me a moment but of course the answer came to me. It … Continue reading 246 East 49th Street
I Don’t Know Jack
As I continue to sort through boxes and boxes of saved odds and ends from decades of my life, including such quotidian objects as telephone bills and bank statements (not, I hasten add, all statements, just a random few here and there), I am frequently stymied as I encounter names of presumed friends or acquaintances … Continue reading I Don’t Know Jack
New Year’s Eve 1978
I’ve never been one for celebrating New Year’s Eve, and I usually just stay at home those nights, but in 1978 I decided to make an exception as a friend and I headed to New York City, the locus classicus of New Year’s Eve celebrations, to ring in the New Year with panache. Pat … Continue reading New Year’s Eve 1978
The Chicks
I was going through a box with old letters and things in search of some documentation for a future series of posts that I plan to write, when I came upon my old little red book of addresses. I used to maintain that book when I lived in Harrisburg and for the first few … Continue reading The Chicks
A Blue Rabbit Stuck in the Snow
I did something stupid this week, and while I won’t be writing about it, it did remind me of another of the many stupid things I’ve done over the years.It was while I was living in Harrisburg in the late 70’s and working at Channel Home Center. I owned a 1978 model blue Volkswagen Rabbit … Continue reading A Blue Rabbit Stuck in the Snow