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1937-2009:
America's Guiding Light Fades Away
by
Rob Taylor
On
Friday at 3:00 pm WSEE Channel 35 will run the one show that will have
a profound effect on viewers...after 72 years the soap opera...Guiding
Light will be airing it's last episode...the one episode that soap
opera fans hoped would never come!
Guiding
Light was first broadcast on the radio on January 25th, 1937.
For those of you who are trivia buffs...that was just five days
after Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated for his second
term as president and
Time magazine had just described television as "science
which shows no serious signs yet of becoming an industry." It
made the move to television on June 30, 1952.
That
means that at least five generations of listeners and viewers
have followed the many marriages, divorces, affairs, murder
trials, bizarre dream sequences and thousands of other creative
plot twists that constitute the multi-decade family
histories of
the Bauer, Spaulding, Chamberlain, Reardon, Cooper and Lewis
families of Springfield, U.S.A. Fans have remained loyal through
12 presidents, one world war and even a dubious cloning story
line.
Guiding
Light is currently listed in the Guinness Book Of World
Records as the longest running soap opera in history.
Guiding
Light and other soap operas were so popular at one time that
college students planned out their class schedules around
their favorite soaps and workers often re-scheduled their
lunches, or even called off work, to watch when a soap had
some cliff hanger they just HAD to see.
After
more than 5,000 radio broadcasts and more than 15,000
television episodes writers said that the plotlines are
becoming harder to develop and with ratings falling it became
inevitable that the show would come to an end.
Erie
County Poet Laureate Named
by
Chuck Joy
Please
join the ERI Jams Staff in congratulating Ms. Berwyn Moore, whose
selection as Erie County's first Poet Laureate was announced on
September 9!
Berwyn Moore is an Associate Professor of English at Gannon
University. She was selected from a worthy field of 16 applicants by a
juried procedure, not only for the quality of her poetry, experience,
and presentation, but also for the quality of her proposed project.
Erie
County's poetry process includes that the Poet Laureate provide a
project utilizing poetry to contribute further to the cultural
strength of the community. Berwyn's project is exciting and
multifaceted, including an open poetry workshop at Gannon University
on Saturday, September 26, 3-5 PM, in Palumbo 3200.
The
Lipizzaner Stallions' 39th Anniversary Tour Coming To Erie
In
1970, Producer Gary Lashinsky created a new family arena
attraction, starring The "World Famous" LIPIZZANER
STALLIONS. Many horses and riders were brought from Europe to
perform in this unique family oriented arena attraction. Over
the years, twenty-three million people throughout North and
South America, Great Britain, Europe, Australia and Hawaii
have seen this internationally acclaimed spectacle.
2009
represents the 39th Anniversary season of The Lipizzaner
Stallions. All new music, choreography and routines have been
incorporated in this anniversary edition with a major emphasis
on the historical background
and foundation of the Lipizzaner
breed, from its original breeding and use as a horse of war to
a horse of nobility and aristocracy to a living form of
equestrian art.
The
show emulates the Spanish Riding School of Vienna, Austria, in
its presentation of Lipizzans, and maintains a traditional as
well as entertaining performance similar in many ways to what
you would see at the Spanish Riding School of Vienna. Also
included in the performance is a segment called the "Airs
Above the Ground." These are the spectacular leaps and
maneuvers, once used by riders in saddle to protect and defend
themselves on the battlefield, which are now preserved as an
equestrian work of art. When you see the Lipizzans perform, it
is like stepping back four hundred years and viewing one of
the greatest equine ballets in history. www.lipizzaner.com
They will be appearing at the Tullio Arena on Saturday,
September 26th at 2:00 pm and again at 7:30 pm
Tickets are $23.50 & $20.50. Groups of 15+ can save $5.00
per ticket. Tickets may be bought at the Tullio Arena Box
Office, charge by phone at 814-452-4857, any Ticketmaster
location or at Ticketmaster.com
Behrend
To Host An Open House Night in Astronomy: "Telescopes Big and
Small"
On Thursday, September 17th University
of Hawaii astronomer Dr. Alan Tokunaga will discuss “Telescopes Big
and Small” at the next Open House Night in Astronomy at Penn State
Erie, The Behrend College.
Tokunaga’s non-technical presentation will be held at 7:30 p.m. on
Thursday, Sept. 17, in 101 Otto Behrend Science Building. It is free
and open to the public and will be followed by astronomical viewing
using the telescope in the college’s Mehalso Observatory, weather
permitting.
“While the newest large telescopes garner much of the press
coverage, mid-size telescopes, or those less than four meters (13
feet) in diameter continue to be major contributors to astronomical
research,” Tokunaga says. “I’ll discuss the increase of
telescope aperture from the creation of Galileo’s first instrument
in 1609 to the present, when construction of telescopes as large as 30
meters (100 feet) in diameter is planned.”
Tokunaga is division chief for the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility, a
3.0-meter telescope at Hawaii’s Mauna Kea Observatory dedicated to
planetary science and mission support. His primary research is the
study of low-luminosity objects in star formation regions that may
become either stars or brown dwarfs, and collaboration with
astrochemists to analyze laboratory analogs of carbonaceous materials
in the interstellar medium.
Open House Nights in Astronomy are a public outreach program of the
School of Science at Penn State Behrend. They are suitable for
children 8 years and older. For additional information, phone the
school at 814-898-6105.
WQLN
Kids Club Day at the Zoo with Miss Rosa!
The PBS Kids preschool destination is proving to be increasingly
interactive, engaging and contemporary.
If
your children are daily viewers of Arthur, Martha Speaks, and other
PBS Kids programs, they probably delight in the sticky and interactive
environment brought to them between shows through Miss Rosa.
Guiding
kids through curriculum-based activities as she introduces Spanish
words and phrases related to the curriculum of the day, Miss Rosa has
become synonymous with the characters your children love to watch.
This September 19th, your children can see Miss Rosa perform beloved
stories just for them at the Erie Zoo! Your children will also get to
meet Miss Rosa during a Meet and Greet after her performance. Don’t
miss this great event featuring children’s activities, animals and
Story Time with Miss Rosa. Open to the general public, but all WQLN
Kids Club Members receive complementary admission! To join the Kids
Club, contact Maureen Deegan at 217-6050.
