Mars Attacks!
Seventy years ago tonight, Orson Welles vaulted to fame when the Mercury Theater on the Air broadcast their famous adaptation of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds.
I remember attending the Fiftieth Anniversary celebration of the broadcast, held near Grover's Mill, New Jersey, while I was in grad school. What a blast! I enjoyed driving through Grover's Mill late at night in the autumn. There was something about the darkness of the place (very few street lights), the thick growth of vegetation, and the fog rising up from the pond. I could see people believing that a strange shadow might be a Martian invader.
Happy Halloween!