"This is no longer a vacation. It's a quest." - Clark W. Griswold, "National Lampoon's Vacation"
I met Heidi Maynard during my junior year of high school. She was already friends with Lance and it was through him that I first got to know her. She had the distinction of being pretty, funny, and exceptionally sweet and good-natured. Although I don’t think we ever had a single class together, I would […]
Having had great success with previous attemps at getting autographs from the two surviving members of the Three Stooges (seen here, with additional signed comic books from Curly-Joe seen here), I made yet another stab at amassing more for my growing Stooges collection. On May 27, I sent my last autograph request before the Summer […]
Thomas Benton Roberts was the only celebrity at the Hollywood ‘80 Sons of the Desert convention who signed my autograph book twice. I reckon that I had him do this because I really had no idea who he was at the time. Later on I realized that he appeared in the classic Laurel and Hardy […]
The name Roy Seawright probably doesn’t mean much to the average Joe. But to me in 1986, he was a super-celebrity, having worked with Laurel and Hardy at the Hal Roach Studios as a special effects man. He was responsible for aiding Stan Laurel in igniting his thumb in Way Out West, smoking his thumb […]
I met Lee McAdams during the Summer of 1988 when Shirely Yaussy, one of our fellow Beavercreek Church of the Brethren members and a close friend of our family, suggested that I might carpool with Lee to camp Woodland Altars for our week at Youth camp. Lee lived in Tipp City and immediately accepted me as […]