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Judy Bolton Days
First annual in 1991!
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
HARDY BOYS and NANCY DREW CREATOR
STRATEMEYER FICTION FACTORY
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Sunday, February 13, 2011
RICK BRANT GOLDEN DRAGON 3
THE QUEST OF THE GOLDEN DRAGON
or THE SOUTH SEAS CITY OF DEATH MYSTERY
A Rick Brant fan-written adventure from 1959., a sequel to The Phantom Shark.
Chapter Three: THE CITY OF DEATH
All chapters currently available are now on this alternate site:
THE QUEST OF THE GOLDEN DRAGON https://sites.google.com/site/rickbrantfanfiction/dragon
or THE SOUTH SEAS CITY OF DEATH MYSTERY
A Rick Brant fan-written adventure from 1959., a sequel to The Phantom Shark.
To get all the chapters currently available on this blog, click on 'Golden Dragon' under Labels on side panel.
Chapter Three: THE CITY OF DEATH
All chapters currently available are now on this alternate site:
THE QUEST OF THE GOLDEN DRAGON https://sites.google.com/site/rickbrantfanfiction/dragon
Saturday, February 12, 2011
THE THIRD HARDY BOY!
The THIRD Hardy Boy!
MICKEY ROONEY AS ANDY HARDY
A lot of people who grew up during the 1930s and 1940s confuse The Hardy Boys from the books with Andy Hardy from the Andy Hardy movies, as played by Mickey Rooney. These movies were family comedies and still can be seen often on TV on Turner Classic Movies. They were filmed throughout the thirties and forties and Mickey literally grew up while making them. However, they have nothing to do with the Hardy Boys books, even though Mickey Rooney is often considered to be a Hardy Boy. Well, actually, he was! He was Andy Hardy.
On this magazine cover from 1942 he is shown with Esther Williams, Hollywood's glamorous swimming star, and Ann Rutherford. The movie was Esther's film debut and actually came out titled Andy Hardy's Double Life.
People often confuse the Andy Hardy movies with the Hardy Boys books, and Mickey Rooney with being one of the Hardy Boys. Now you know why!
The movies are terrific period pieces, showing how life was in the thirties and forties for young people, and Andy is generally girl crazy in the later ones when he is a teenager. In a couple of them, his girl-crazy interest is Bonita Granville, who played Nancy Drew in the four 1930s Nancy Drew movies. So Mickey Rooney, the third Hardy boy who wasn't really a Hardy Boy, even did some on-screen romancing with the gal who was Hollywood's Nancy Drew!
MICKEY ROONEY AS ANDY HARDY
A lot of people who grew up during the 1930s and 1940s confuse The Hardy Boys from the books with Andy Hardy from the Andy Hardy movies, as played by Mickey Rooney. These movies were family comedies and still can be seen often on TV on Turner Classic Movies. They were filmed throughout the thirties and forties and Mickey literally grew up while making them. However, they have nothing to do with the Hardy Boys books, even though Mickey Rooney is often considered to be a Hardy Boy. Well, actually, he was! He was Andy Hardy.
On this magazine cover from 1942 he is shown with Esther Williams, Hollywood's glamorous swimming star, and Ann Rutherford. The movie was Esther's film debut and actually came out titled Andy Hardy's Double Life.
People often confuse the Andy Hardy movies with the Hardy Boys books, and Mickey Rooney with being one of the Hardy Boys. Now you know why!
The movies are terrific period pieces, showing how life was in the thirties and forties for young people, and Andy is generally girl crazy in the later ones when he is a teenager. In a couple of them, his girl-crazy interest is Bonita Granville, who played Nancy Drew in the four 1930s Nancy Drew movies. So Mickey Rooney, the third Hardy boy who wasn't really a Hardy Boy, even did some on-screen romancing with the gal who was Hollywood's Nancy Drew!
FIRST JUDY BOLTON DAY 1991 *PHOTOS 2*
more JUDY BOLTON DAY PHOTOS 1991
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| Judy Bolton fans on the North Hollow Road, photographing the meadow that leads to the Dry Brook Hollow house, the old Smeed Farm. |
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| The wall of deer inside the Dry Brook Hollow house. |
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| Mike DeBaptiste in Potter County Courthouse, used as a site in The Pledge of the Twin Knights. |
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| Mike with Ann Creamer and daughter Meg outside the Potter County Courthouse. |
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| The swimming pool in Sizerville State park, used as a site in The Voice in the Suitcase. |
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| Lorraine Rogers with Mike DeBaptiste and Joyce Wallner in Dry Brook Hollow (Odin PA). |
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| Ruins of the Austin Dam, used as the Roulsville Dam in The Vanishing Shadow, |
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| John Rotello and Mike DeBaptiste completing a book sale outside the Laurelwood Motel. |
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| Lorraine Rogers and Mike DeBaptiste speak at assembly in Austin PA (Roulsville) Firehouse. |
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| Lorraine and Mike with Peg Rotello in Austin Firehouse. |
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| Host John Rigas of Adelphia Communications talks to Judy fans Meg Creamer, Lorraine Rogers, Diana McInerney, and Rosemarie DiCristo at Saturday evening banquet at the Crittenden Hotel in Coudersport PA. |
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
FIRST JUDY BOLTON DAY 1991 * PHOTOS*
JUDY BOLTON DAY PHOTOS 1991
- Here are some photos from the first Judy Bolton Day weekend held in Coudersport PA in 1991. You can click on the photos to enlarge.
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| Bucolic scene in front of the Dry Brook Hollow house |
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| The Farringdon -Pett mansion along the banks of the Allegheny River |
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| Meadows next to the Dry Brook Hollow house, the old Smeed Farm. |
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| Joe Slavin, Rosemarie DiCristo, Lorraine Rogers, Meg and Ann Creamer, Joyce Wallner, Mike DeBaptiste, and Diana McInerney on the front porch of the Farringdon-Pett mansion (the Judge Lewis house). |
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| Joyce Wallner and Mike DeBaptiste in front of the Laurelwood Motel. |
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| Jack Sharpe, Joyce Wallner, Mike DeBaptiste, Lorraine Rogers, and Rosemarie DiCristo gather in front of the Laurelwood Motel on Saturday morning to begin their first annual tour of Judy Bolton sites. |
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| Judy Bolton fans Joe Slavin, Mike DeBaptiste, Ann and Meg Creamer, Lorraine Rogers, and Diana McInerney in Potter County PA for the first annual Judy Bolton Day weekend in October 1991. |
more photos to come..........
FIRST JUDY BOLTON DAY 1991 (Part 2)
THE FIRST ANNUAL JUDY BOLTON DAY WEEKEND 1991
Regardless of what some others may be claiming, this was the first actual Judy Bolton Day weekend get-together in October 1991. Some of us had been there the year before searching out sites and laying the groundwork for future visits, but it was a different time of year and it wasn't an 'official' event. At this point, we were still representing the Phantom Friends, which is why the name is used in the article which appeared in several fanzines in 1992, including The Judy Bolton Society newsletter. Click on the images for reading!
This year's event, 2014, will be the 24th annual Judy Bolton Day weekend, not the 15th, as some are claiming.
Regardless of what some others may be claiming, this was the first actual Judy Bolton Day weekend get-together in October 1991. Some of us had been there the year before searching out sites and laying the groundwork for future visits, but it was a different time of year and it wasn't an 'official' event. At this point, we were still representing the Phantom Friends, which is why the name is used in the article which appeared in several fanzines in 1992, including The Judy Bolton Society newsletter. Click on the images for reading!
This year's event, 2014, will be the 24th annual Judy Bolton Day weekend, not the 15th, as some are claiming.
Monday, February 7, 2011
HARDY BOYS RETURN TO CABIN ISLAND
THE SECRETS OF CABIN ISLAND
This is a fan-written novelet sequel to the original-text The Mystery of Cabin Island, everybody's favorite Hardy Boys winter adventure. More ice-boating on the bay, more mysterious happenings on Cabin Island, an unexpected thrilling ride to New York City on the Flying Express, and New Years Eve spent at a gathering of a sinister cult of danger in an old Manhattan warehouse!
All right here on this blog:
http://hardyboys-stratomiker.blogspot.com/2010/12/hardy-boys-cabin-island.html
Check it out while WINTER is still here to chill and thrill you!
This is a fan-written novelet sequel to the original-text The Mystery of Cabin Island, everybody's favorite Hardy Boys winter adventure. More ice-boating on the bay, more mysterious happenings on Cabin Island, an unexpected thrilling ride to New York City on the Flying Express, and New Years Eve spent at a gathering of a sinister cult of danger in an old Manhattan warehouse!
All right here on this blog:
http://hardyboys-stratomiker.blogspot.com/2010/12/hardy-boys-cabin-island.html
Check it out while WINTER is still here to chill and thrill you!
BRITISH HARDY BOYS
WHILE THE CLOCK TICKED
UK Harold Hill & Sons edition, 1950s
This cartoon ad appears on the back of some other Harold Hill Hardy DJs advertising this title.
UK Harold Hill & Sons edition, 1950s
This cartoon ad appears on the back of some other Harold Hill Hardy DJs advertising this title.
Friday, February 4, 2011
JUDY BOLTON-LIKE ADULT MYSTERY SERIES
THE FOXGLOVE CORNERS MYSTERY SERIES
by Dorothy Bodoin
This adult cozy mystery series of sixteen books by Michigan writer Dorothy Bodoin is very much like the Judy Bolton Mystery series by Margaret Sutton; any Judy Bolton fan or juvenile girls mystery fan is sure to love it. The series features Jennet Greenway as its heroine. She is a school teacher in a suburban Detroit high school and lives in a country area an hour north of the city dotted with lovely lakes and forests. Within it lies Foxglove Corners, an out-of-the-way neighborhood of Victorian homes and thick mysterious woods that yields far more than its fair share of mystery and suspense. It's a magical place, like Judy Bolton's Potter County PA, and like Potter County, it has a real-place alter-ego, Metamora, Michigan.
The Judy Bolton books are sometimes mentioned in the Foxglove Corners books. In the first book, Darkness at Foxglove Corners, Jennet moves into her new house at Foxglove Corners and buys herself a housewarming gift - a first edition copy of The Haunted Attic, Judy Bolton #2, at a nearby antique store. In the sixth book in the series, my special favorite, The Snow Dogs of Lost Lake, it is Christmas time, and Jennet buys herself a copy of The Secret of the Musical Tree, Judy Bolton #19, a Christmas mystery, at her favorite antique store.
The books are also similar to the Judy Boltons insofar as the mysteries are very cozy, usually concern friends and acquaintances, and they are constructed with eerie and magical plots, very much like the Judy Bolton books. Jennet also meets the man of her dreams in the series, Deputy Sheriff Crane Ferguson, and a relationship develops with him throughout the books. These books also feature dogs as important characters, usually collies, and Jennet has her own personal pet collie named Halley.
The titles are:
DARKNESS AT FOXGLOVE CORNERS
CRY FOR THE FOX
WINTER'S TALE
A SHORTCUT THROUGH THE SHADOWS
THE WITCHES OF FOXGLOVE CORNERS
THE SNOW DOGS OF LOST LAKE
THE COLLIE CONNECTION
A TIME OF STORMS
THE DOG FROM THE SKY
SPIRIT OF THE SEASON
ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST
WHERE HAVE ALL THE DOGS GONE?
THE SECRET ROOM OF EIDT HOUSE
FOLLOW A SHADOW
THE SNOW QUEEN'S COLLIE
THE DOOR IN THE FOG
In this terrific mystery, Jennet's house in town is destroyed by a tornado and she moves into her dream home in Foxglove Corners out in the country an hour north of the suburbs. It offers her bucolic peace and a new romance with a handsome lawman. But there is a secret in the old yellow Victorian house down the lane that threatens her new life when murderous revelations in an old tornado-tossed journal put an evil plan of revenge and terror into motion.
This is my personal favorite and a very special book. It is Christmas time and Jennet is warming up to a happy holiday season, finally meeting her boyfriend Crane's family from down south. But a chance encounter in a snowstorm at nearby Lost Lake with three ghostly white collies pulls her into a mystery about the legend of 'the snow dogs of Lost Lake', ghost dogs whose sightings are said to be harbingers of bad things to come. When murders in the snowy woods begin to accompany the sightings of the ghost dogs, and Jennet stumbles upon a mysterious painting of the very same dogs in an antique shop, she knows she has to get to the bottom of the eerie mystery no matter what dangers she may have to face.
Some of these books were originally published by Hilliard and/or Five Star and are now listed on online sites for very high prices, often $100 or more. Even the current editions by Wings ePress are listed at very high prices on some sites. You don't have to pay the high prices.
All of the Foxglove Corners books are now available directly from the new publisher Wings ePress for a reasonable price ($11.95 or $12.95) plus shipping. They are beautiful trade size paperbacks and promptly arrive in the mail within a few days. They are also available as ebooks in various formats at half the book price.
The website is http://www.wings-press.com/
Ms. Bodoin also has written other mysteries which are not part of the Foxglove Corners series. These are similar cozy mysteries usually set in and around the same Michigan area, often with ties of some sort to the Foxglove Corners stories. One of her specialties is winter cozies and the Foxglove Corners series has a few great ones. Among the standalones, Snowhedge and A Shadow on the Snow will really get you gettin' all comfy and cozy. Others are The Cameo Clue, Love Deadly Love, Ghost Across the Water, and Secret for a Satyr. Most of these titles are available in mass market paperbacks by World (Harlequin mystery) on eBay and Amazon for low reasonable prices.
You can read more about Dorothy Bodoin and her books, including complete first chapters, at her website:
www.dorothybodoin.com
Don't miss out on these books! They are terrific!
by Dorothy Bodoin
This adult cozy mystery series of sixteen books by Michigan writer Dorothy Bodoin is very much like the Judy Bolton Mystery series by Margaret Sutton; any Judy Bolton fan or juvenile girls mystery fan is sure to love it. The series features Jennet Greenway as its heroine. She is a school teacher in a suburban Detroit high school and lives in a country area an hour north of the city dotted with lovely lakes and forests. Within it lies Foxglove Corners, an out-of-the-way neighborhood of Victorian homes and thick mysterious woods that yields far more than its fair share of mystery and suspense. It's a magical place, like Judy Bolton's Potter County PA, and like Potter County, it has a real-place alter-ego, Metamora, Michigan.
The Judy Bolton books are sometimes mentioned in the Foxglove Corners books. In the first book, Darkness at Foxglove Corners, Jennet moves into her new house at Foxglove Corners and buys herself a housewarming gift - a first edition copy of The Haunted Attic, Judy Bolton #2, at a nearby antique store. In the sixth book in the series, my special favorite, The Snow Dogs of Lost Lake, it is Christmas time, and Jennet buys herself a copy of The Secret of the Musical Tree, Judy Bolton #19, a Christmas mystery, at her favorite antique store.
The books are also similar to the Judy Boltons insofar as the mysteries are very cozy, usually concern friends and acquaintances, and they are constructed with eerie and magical plots, very much like the Judy Bolton books. Jennet also meets the man of her dreams in the series, Deputy Sheriff Crane Ferguson, and a relationship develops with him throughout the books. These books also feature dogs as important characters, usually collies, and Jennet has her own personal pet collie named Halley.
The titles are:
DARKNESS AT FOXGLOVE CORNERS
CRY FOR THE FOX
WINTER'S TALE
A SHORTCUT THROUGH THE SHADOWS
THE WITCHES OF FOXGLOVE CORNERS
THE SNOW DOGS OF LOST LAKE
THE COLLIE CONNECTION
A TIME OF STORMS
THE DOG FROM THE SKY
SPIRIT OF THE SEASON
ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST
WHERE HAVE ALL THE DOGS GONE?
THE SECRET ROOM OF EIDT HOUSE
FOLLOW A SHADOW
THE SNOW QUEEN'S COLLIE
THE DOOR IN THE FOG
Some of these books were originally published by Hilliard and/or Five Star and are now listed on online sites for very high prices, often $100 or more. Even the current editions by Wings ePress are listed at very high prices on some sites. You don't have to pay the high prices.
All of the Foxglove Corners books are now available directly from the new publisher Wings ePress for a reasonable price ($11.95 or $12.95) plus shipping. They are beautiful trade size paperbacks and promptly arrive in the mail within a few days. They are also available as ebooks in various formats at half the book price.
The website is http://www.wings-press.com/
Ms. Bodoin also has written other mysteries which are not part of the Foxglove Corners series. These are similar cozy mysteries usually set in and around the same Michigan area, often with ties of some sort to the Foxglove Corners stories. One of her specialties is winter cozies and the Foxglove Corners series has a few great ones. Among the standalones, Snowhedge and A Shadow on the Snow will really get you gettin' all comfy and cozy. Others are The Cameo Clue, Love Deadly Love, Ghost Across the Water, and Secret for a Satyr. Most of these titles are available in mass market paperbacks by World (Harlequin mystery) on eBay and Amazon for low reasonable prices.
You can read more about Dorothy Bodoin and her books, including complete first chapters, at her website:
www.dorothybodoin.com
Don't miss out on these books! They are terrific!
Saturday, January 29, 2011
RICK BRANT GOLDEN DRAGON 2
THE QUEST OF THE GOLDEN DRAGON
or THE SOUTH SEAS CITY OF DEATH MYSTERY
A fan-written Rick Brant adventure from 1959. A sequel to The Phantom Shark.
To get all the chapters now available click on 'Golden Dragon' under Labels on the side bar.
Chapter Two: THE GOLDEN DRAGON
All chapters currently available are now at this alternate site:
THE QUEST OF THE GOLDEN DRAGON https://sites.google.com/site/rickbrantfanfiction/dragon
or THE SOUTH SEAS CITY OF DEATH MYSTERY
A fan-written Rick Brant adventure from 1959. A sequel to The Phantom Shark.
To get all the chapters now available click on 'Golden Dragon' under Labels on the side bar.
Chapter Two: THE GOLDEN DRAGON
All chapters currently available are now at this alternate site:
THE QUEST OF THE GOLDEN DRAGON https://sites.google.com/site/rickbrantfanfiction/dragon
Thursday, January 27, 2011
RICK BRANT GOLDEN DRAGON
THE QUEST OF THE GOLDEN DRAGON
or THE SOUTH SEAS CITY OF DEATH MYSTERY
A Rick Brant fan-written adventure from 1959. This book could be considered as a sequel to The Phantom Shark. To get all the chapters currently available on this blog click on GOLDEN DRAGON under 'Labels' on the side bar.
Chapter One: STEALTH IN THE NIGHT
All current chapters are now available on this alternate site:
THE QUEST OF THE GOLDEN DRAGON https://sites.google.com/site/rickbrantfanfiction/dragon
or THE SOUTH SEAS CITY OF DEATH MYSTERY
A Rick Brant fan-written adventure from 1959. This book could be considered as a sequel to The Phantom Shark. To get all the chapters currently available on this blog click on GOLDEN DRAGON under 'Labels' on the side bar.
Chapter One: STEALTH IN THE NIGHT
All current chapters are now available on this alternate site:
THE QUEST OF THE GOLDEN DRAGON https://sites.google.com/site/rickbrantfanfiction/dragon
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
MARGARET SUTTON SHORT STORY
TWICE HAUNTED (Part 3)
by Margaret Sutton, author of the Judy Bolton mystery books
Sweet Sixteen Magazine - January & March 1947
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by Margaret Sutton, author of the Judy Bolton mystery books
Sweet Sixteen Magazine - January & March 1947
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Monday, January 24, 2011
MARGARET SUTTON SHORT STORY
TWICE HAUNTED (Part 2)
by Margaret Sutton, author of the Judy Bolton Mystery books
Sweet Sixteen Magazine November 1946
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Click HERE for Part 3!
by Margaret Sutton, author of the Judy Bolton Mystery books
Sweet Sixteen Magazine November 1946
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Saturday, January 22, 2011
MARGARET SUTTON SHORT STORY
TWICE HAUNTED (Part 1)
by Margaret Sutton, author of the Judy Bolton books
Sweet Sixteen Magazine Aug.-Sept. 1946
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Click HERE for Part 2!
by Margaret Sutton, author of the Judy Bolton books
Sweet Sixteen Magazine Aug.-Sept. 1946
Click on images to enlarge for reading. Then click on URL at bottom left of image to enlarge further.
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