tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78601162024-03-13T03:46:37.246-04:00Hometown TalesThis Blog is for the latest HT news, tales and events. Feel free to post your comment, tale or feedback. Enjoy.Gene Fitzpatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02874861365944015202noreply@blogger.comBlogger292125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860116.post-65921600422328494322013-09-11T12:18:00.001-04:002013-09-11T12:21:13.451-04:00The Response to 9/11: Tell Tales
At a Halt
We had just finished our first segment, "On the Trail of the Hookerman". Our plan was a magazine format television show featuring the tales of small towns. The "Hometown Tales" logo was designed by our friend who was an art director at the agency Bryan and I both worked at, DVC. The logo was awesome. Everyone at the agency knew of our endeavor and couldn't Gene Fitzpatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02874861365944015202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860116.post-19942072478522070912013-05-23T11:44:00.000-04:002013-05-23T11:47:58.051-04:00Remembering Ms. Doyle
For several years around Halloween, we visited Hillsborough Middle School.
Two outstanding teachers from that school, Ms. Moreno and Ms. Doyle, gave their students the opportunity to learn about folklore, history, legends and ghost stories. Specifically how those stories impact our culture around us. Hometown Tales helped that curriculum along with a yearly guest assembly.
Gene Fitzpatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02874861365944015202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860116.post-12044322456615275522012-05-06T19:19:00.000-04:002012-05-06T21:46:58.608-04:00HT Radio #353 With Wrestler the Jersey Devil
Video streaming by UstreamGene Fitzpatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02874861365944015202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860116.post-88589808621983378312010-07-18T10:42:00.001-04:002010-07-18T10:01:10.592-04:00Tales of PennsylvaniaEnjoy our Radio Show & Podcast on PA. Hometown Tales: Tales of Pennsyvlania.Obviously there are only so many legends and stories we can get to in a 1/2 hour but here's a start. I'm sure they'll be a part 2 someday.Tales of PA<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN -->var addthis_pub="htgene";<!-- AddThis Button END -->Gene Fitzpatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02874861365944015202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860116.post-54087818045434200702010-07-18T09:47:00.001-04:002010-07-18T09:51:43.279-04:00Altoona, PA - The World's Oldest Roller CoasterBeyond the tilt-a-whirl, merry-go-round and salt & pepper shaker at the Larchmont Family Amusement Park is a 48-foot high, wooden roller coaster built in the classic figure eight design. It was named “Leap the Dips” by designer E. Joy Morris back when it was built in 1902. It’s 102 years old and still operating. It’s the oldest operating roller coaster in the world.It was closed in the early 80'sGene Fitzpatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02874861365944015202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860116.post-80614836833615211882010-07-18T09:39:00.001-04:002010-07-18T09:47:36.754-04:00Central, PA - The Watermelon BabyThere is a strange legend told by camp councilors and big brothers in select parts of Central Pennsylvania. One that lacks many details and historical facts but is extremely interesting nonetheless. It usually involves a beat up old house just along Route 78 or the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Inside that house lives a deranged person raised by abusive and wicked parents. A pair of parents that Gene Fitzpatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02874861365944015202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860116.post-65891928095462406352010-07-18T09:29:00.003-04:002010-07-18T09:35:00.263-04:00Centralia, PA - Town on FireJust a couple of hours drive from NJ (west on I-80) is a little slice of hell: fire, brimstone, smoke, ruin. Take a moment to create a picture of hell in your head (forget about the bible and all those lost and tormented souls). Now, slap that image down on a map of eastern Pennsylvania and you’ve got a fairly accurate assessment of Centralia, PA.Centralia is a small town located in Columbia Gene Fitzpatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02874861365944015202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860116.post-42296385559493129032010-07-18T09:27:00.001-04:002010-07-18T09:29:28.788-04:00Girardville, PA - The Molly MaguiresBetween the 1840s and 1860s million of Europeans: Polish, German, Russian, Welsh; probably even your very own great grand parents entered New York harbor to be greeted by the message: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." And then there were the Irish who got a completely different message: “Irish need not apply.”Life back in Ireland was cruel and here it Gene Fitzpatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02874861365944015202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860116.post-64586369275715031552010-07-18T09:19:00.002-04:002010-07-18T09:26:44.227-04:00Kecksburg, PA - Herbie the UFOMysterious lights spotted in the sky are common, a quick glimpse of an alien-like creature in the woods on a dark night has been reported by several but a full-blow UFO landing in your backyard is the mother-load. (HT Discusses in Show #323 & #324)On a cold winter night in 1965 thousands in the midwest saw a streaking fiery illumination dance in the sky but several just outside of Pittsburgh Gene Fitzpatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02874861365944015202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860116.post-4983383836182365622010-07-18T09:12:00.003-04:002010-07-18T09:19:16.337-04:00Western PA, The State of WestylvaniaIn the early days of our nation the union was extremely fragile. Incorporating different settlements into the “United States” was a difficult endeavor. Especially when states would be held accountable to laws of a larger federal government ruled from a central capital in Philadelphia. This was no more evident than across the Appalachian Mountains in Western Pennsylvania. Since the early 1770s Gene Fitzpatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02874861365944015202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860116.post-88497516271462500442010-07-18T08:22:00.004-04:002010-07-18T08:25:43.056-04:00Radio Show #323 & 324 - Building for the UFOs !Check out the latest Radio Shows from Hometown Tales. Show #323 we discuss The Amityville home for sale, more on meat, the town of the broken bridge, some other tales of England, dwinkleflunking, the first hamburger of Rome, UFO crash in Kecksberg, PA and much more. Then check out Show #324 where we discuss building the suspense on UFO crashes, heat wave, brain freeze, living with husband and Gene Fitzpatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02874861365944015202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860116.post-78874503669234205682010-06-15T13:26:00.003-04:002010-06-15T13:42:28.536-04:00Tons of MP3sHey Everyone,You'll notice a list of all our Radio Shows on the right column of this site. Just scroll down a bit but we also figured we'd update a couple of the last shows in a post. We didn't post for every show in like the last 20 or so.But here they are.HT Radio Show #321 - Bryan And the Tornado. Hear about Bryan's trip to the midwest where he went Storm Chasing.HT- Radio #320 - Weird Gene Fitzpatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02874861365944015202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860116.post-59401250158209804352010-02-15T13:14:00.003-05:002010-02-15T13:17:38.872-05:00Radio Show #308Bryan's infection, Melusine, The Town on Fire evacuated, trolls in Florida, an update on Suicide Bridge and much more. Intro music by DINOS Alive.Gene Fitzpatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02874861365944015202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860116.post-24932516558340639572009-12-30T15:37:00.004-05:002009-12-30T22:03:21.089-05:00What's your Favorite Snack Cake?Twinkie? Susy Q? Devil Dogs?In Hometown Tales Radio Show #302, we discuss your favorite snack cakes, where they are from and what story is behind them. <!-- AddThis Button BEGIN -->var addthis_pub="htgene";<!-- AddThis Button END -->Gene Fitzpatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02874861365944015202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860116.post-52392904045239722552009-12-01T11:24:00.002-05:002009-12-01T11:27:15.650-05:00The Sky KingRecently, on Show 300, I mentioned one of Time's magazine's top inventions of 2009. The Sky King Paper Airplane. You should give it a try. Here's how to make it.Read MoreGene Fitzpatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02874861365944015202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860116.post-44251208921510198872009-12-01T11:16:00.002-05:002009-12-01T11:24:14.052-05:00We have 300 ShowsWow, we've recorded 300 Hometown Tales Radio programs ! No pomp and circumstance just a basic show with some celebratory Cheerwine Soda and Poundcake. Enjoy. MP3 HereVIDEO STREAM HERE<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN -->var addthis_pub="htgene";<!-- AddThis Button END -->Gene Fitzpatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02874861365944015202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860116.post-79542418164270599602009-11-28T08:44:00.004-05:002009-11-28T08:57:16.537-05:00The DemonsWhile it's certainly been a hectic month or so for Bryan and I. However, we have managed to get out two really great shows. We've done 2 parts of demons. I really enjoyed discussing these. It was one of the more intellectual shows (if that's possible) that we've done. I think mostly because we talked a lot about how the different way cultures look at things. And how connotations have Gene Fitzpatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02874861365944015202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860116.post-80516442820362928772009-11-14T07:22:00.003-05:002009-11-14T07:28:38.443-05:00Where Have We BeenWell, sometime life really gets in the way. Both Bryan and I had a couple of really busy weeks. I was running for Town Council in my local town. An awesome experience but unbelievably time consuming. It all paid off, I won. However, it was tough to fit in some new shows along the way.And Bryan, well he was on a diet. He said it's been tough. We finally managed to get a new show out and Gene Fitzpatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02874861365944015202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860116.post-33406042969143998792009-10-16T08:30:00.006-04:002009-10-16T08:43:03.973-04:00Chupacabra? Aliens? What did this in DenvilleMike from Denville, NJ woke up to an interesting event this week. Magically a deer carcass appeared on his lawn, completely skinned to the bone. Aliens? the Chupacabra? or just some kids pulling something from the woods.No signs of struggle, no drag marks. Animal Control on it's way.Gene Fitzpatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02874861365944015202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860116.post-57183616783822515332009-10-06T15:21:00.004-04:002009-10-06T15:26:49.600-04:00KISS the Religion?As you may or may not know, I am a closet KISS fan. Just something that brings back my childhood. Although, don't worry I do recognize that KISS is not exactly the upper echelon of musicianship. They are just easy, mindless and entertaining.So today they have a new album coming out with new music. There is a big get up at WalMarts for this release. I happened to be at a WalMart in Linden, Gene Fitzpatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02874861365944015202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860116.post-73290149422385986522009-10-05T21:06:00.010-04:002009-10-05T21:32:07.922-04:00Ft. Riley, Kansas - Beginning of the End of the World (Almost) Fort Riley has been home to General George Custer, the Buffalo Soldiers of the 9th and 10th Cavalry Regiments, Blackjack Pershing’s 1st Infantry Division (“The Big Red One”) as well as the one of the greatest natural disasters to cast a shadow over all of humanity: the Spanish Flu of 1918. Similar to the more recent 2009 Novel H1N1 (“Swine”) Flu, this pandemic strain of influenza quickly Hometown Taleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17449730639837994979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860116.post-67801814604773933072009-09-16T17:46:00.001-04:002009-09-16T17:46:49.645-04:00HT Stock Ticker 09/16/2009HT Related What the heck is that?! Cerro Azul Glowing bananas help researchers track cell death Austria Giraffe in Toys R Us ads, films dies at Boston zoo Boston, MA, United States GUINNESS IS 250 YEARS OLD Dublin, Ireland Potpourri, Human Oddities REPORTERS NOTEBOOK: Name it Spud -- kitten's a little couch potato Huron, OH, United States Cheerleader Hunts, Kills 10 Paul Orch.http://www.blogger.com/profile/05837363685248138547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860116.post-14286239825157619902009-09-10T08:35:00.003-04:002009-09-10T08:41:22.768-04:00The Mongolian Death WormIn our latest Radio Show & Podcast, we discussed the Mongolian Death Worm. At first you'd think the idea of a large sand-burrowing worm that spews venom and electricity seem absurd but you'd be surprised at the strange worm-like creatures that really do exist in our world. Hear & learn more about the tales and reality of this mysterious beast.SUBSCRIBE IN iTUNES Gene Fitzpatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02874861365944015202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860116.post-24636034109150838262009-09-09T11:21:00.001-04:002009-09-09T11:21:37.985-04:00HT Stock Ticker 09/09/2009HT Related Significance of 09/09/09 National Literacy Day Birds on a Wire Inspire Notes of Song São Paulo, Mexico City, Mexico Sailor Jessica Watson hits bulk carrier before solo round the world voyage Point Lookout Potpourri, Human Oddities Cubs open win with eight straight hits Pittsburgh, PA, United States US couple marry at son's funeral Buffalo, NY, United States Paul Orch.http://www.blogger.com/profile/05837363685248138547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860116.post-53004941552915725162009-08-30T19:23:00.005-04:002009-08-30T19:33:23.906-04:00Swords vs. Deadliest CatchIf you've listened to our show recently you know I was excited about the new show on the Discovery Channel about line fisherman, Swords. Similar to Discovery's Hit Show, the Deadliest Catch, producers and videographers follow around several Northeastern fishing boats on their quest to make a living during fishing season, excepts Swords features Sword-fisherman on the East Coast vs. Catch's Gene Fitzpatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02874861365944015202noreply@blogger.com