Just in time for All Hallow’s Eve and the 75th anniversary of the Orson Welles radio adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel “War of the Worlds”, first published in 1898. The radio broadcast apparently frightened a number of people, but the “widespread panic” that supposedly ensued was overstated. Some people missed the opening which provided a context – that it was clearly a fiction – and the fake news broadcasts that subsequently followed did the rest. More info here.
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See below. The contrast in these two properties (and perhaps those who lived/are living there) is the stuff of deep meditation, with all the consequential themes in play: aging, beauty, vitality, loss, money, physical and mental health, luck, and the big one, karma. But appearances can be deceiving. How does one judge a book by its cover – or an owner by his home – and not be fooled?
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It’s unclear whether this place has been abandoned; though I have never seen a vehicle around, someone seems to be doing at least some maintenance, and it hangs on.
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There was probably more empty space on this bulletin board than in the entire general store where I found it. All the usual goods were scrunched in, PLUS a pooch lying in front of the cash register, AND a woodstove, AND an ATM machine, and even the town post office – entrance on the left in the picture. The crown jewel of the board had to be a handwritten record of the last 75 years of “ice out dates”, when the ice on Lake Elmore (immediately behind the place) finally melts. The earliest was in 2012 (March 26), and the latest was in 1972 (May 11).
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