¡Ay, Caramba in Kettering!
Sunday, October 4th, 2009
The Simpsons have been as American as apple butter for the last two decades, garnering numerous awards and critical recognition. In 2005, I had the chance to meet Dan Castellaneta, who voices the patriarch of the Simpsons family, Homer Simpson. So I was excited when the opportunity presented itself to get to meet our local Kettering sensation Nancy Cartwright, who has provided the voice of the irrepressible Bart Simpson for some twenty years. Read the rest of this entry »
I absolutely adore Peanuts. Not the salty snack food – although I am fond of those too – but the Charles Schultz series of comic strips and animated cartoons. So I was naturally excited to find out that Pamelyn Ferdin, who was the voice of Lucy Van Pelt in three of the Peanuts shows (two TV specials: It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown and Play It Again Charlie Brown – and one of my favorite movies A Boy Named Charlie Brown) was going to be appearing at the Chiller Theatre Show on April 18, 2009. 
The previous day had been an exhausting one at 
Bob and I had made our way from Atlantic City to Philadelphia, which was about 90 minutes away. We arrived at about 11:40am on the morning of Tuesday, June 16, 2009. We parked the car at the Independence Visitors Center parking garage and set out on a very long and tiring day’s adventures on foot. In fact, we saw so much in Philadelphia, which in essence was where the United States was born, that I am breaking this location into two separate postings. The sites represented in this first volume represent about three hours worth of activity – or roughly half the time it will take to actually complete this posting. I had not visited Philadelphia since