In the novel, Mykel’s boss at the radio station, Sol Ketner, had been on a network radio show entitled Stories From the Charnel House. He not only played the narrator, Old Ichabod, the keeper of the charnel house, but occasionally other voices. The show was cancelled after they produced a version of A. E. Van …
The Facebook friend, who said that people wouldn’t want to read my novel, said it would only appeal to “geeks” who like “obscure references.” This is the same person who said nobody would want to read about radio (see the previous post). I realize there are names that appear in the story that younger people …
November second will mark the centennial of radio broadcasting. KDKA in Pittsburgh delivered the results of the presidential election, between Warren Harding and James Cox, on November 2nd 1920. My first radio job was in 1988 and I have been a radio professional since 1995. Radio plays an important part in THE DYNAMIC DUO OF …
In today’s terminology, Alice Schnatzky is Sherry Riddenhour’s “frenemy.” If she was a girl of my generation, she would frequently snarl “Whatever!” at everything she didn’t like, which would be just about everything. Both are from Knob Noster, Missouri and they have known each other since elementary school and graduated together. Alice thinks she is …
The character of Sherry Ridenhour is based on several girls & women that I have been friends with in my life, although there is one person, I met during the first part of my college career. She was a very positive person, who could pick you up with just a smile or the sound of …
I discovered this video, on You Tube, of a group of high school seniors having a party and dancing 1965. I was looking for examples of the popular dances of that era, because I’m working on a chapter, where Mykel & Clint attend at Valentine Day Date Dash Dance at the Alpha Sigma House with …
CHAPTER 9 Mykel and Clint woke up and got ready for the second day of classes in the new semester. They had already figured out that they had one class together today. “You know I enjoyed going to that hootenanny over at the Campus Union last night,” Clint remarked. “We ought to do that again …
I mentioned this song in Chapter 7. It plays on the radio, while Mykel & Sherry are eating the pizza, leftover from the party.
CHAPTER 8 When the boys departed the elevator, the girls were waiting for them in the lobby. Carlene and Silvy got off the other elevator and were walking right behind them. Kathy greet them, “Glad all if you could make it! I think this will be fun!” Sherry stood smiling at Mykel. He walked over …
CHAPTER 7 Mykel went back to the dorm with the new text books for his Monday-Wednesday-Friday classes. He took off his coat, which crackled with static electricity, to the point, that the hairs on his head began to stand out in several different directions. He took his purchases out of the sack from the bookstore: …
WIP: DYNAMIC DUO OF THE OZARKS 