Recalling the 1968 Miss America backlash
The year 1968 will be forever remembered as one of the most tumultuous in American history. It was a year defined by the assassinations of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, the Tet Offensive in Vietnam and civil unrest in the streets of many...
Paul Anka and Atlantic City: Perfect together
It’s impossible to catalog all of the changes Atlantic City has experienced over the past seven decades, but there is at least one constant that has spanned that time: Paul Anka. When the 84-year-old singer-composer takes the stage of the Event Center at Borgata...
Fake news: April Fools’ hoaxes by newspapers
The Monster of Deadman’s Hole (1888) The San Diego Union reported that two hunters had killed a bizarre, half-human half-animal beast in an out-of-the-way location called Deadman’s Hole northwest of San Diego. The creature was said to have the body of a bear,...
Greg Winter was one of the Phillies Boys of Summer
If Greg Winter was a few inches shorter than 6-foot-3, he would be a legend. In the spring of 1978, the Phillies were looking for someone to serve as their new mascot. Winter, who was a member of the Phillies grounds crew at Veterans Stadium at the time, was summoned...
When the Andrews Sisters and the McGuire Sisters conquered the Shore
Long before the girl singing groups of the 1960s came along and dominated the record business, there were two female singing groups that not only sold millions of records, but also had long and stellar careers on stage, radio, television and in the movies, beginning...
