Archive: Events

Tony Dow panel

2012 Schedule of Events

Seminars, panels and presentations preserve and encourage our pop culture heritage. Most of these events are slide show presentations and we encourage you to sit in on a few of these and learn something new… about something old.   THIS WEB-PAGE IS STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION. MORE PRESENTATIONS TO BE ANNOUNCED.   WEDNESDAY 8:00 p.m.  SPECIAL [...]

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Charity Auction

Every year the staff of the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention has been responsible for making someone’s life a little happier and the annual charity auction is a superb way for attendees to express their generosity. Hollywood legends such as Fess Parker, Casey Kasem, June Foray, Alan Young and many others have all contributed autographed items for [...]

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Patty Duke at the dinner banquet

Dinner Banquet

One of the highlights of the convention is the buffet dinner banquet. So popular is the dinner that every year we are forced to turn people down for tickets. Equal parts culinary magic, attentive service and artful presentation, the Hunt Valley Marriott makes history and memories for everyone who attends the banquet. The ingredients include [...]

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Don Ramlow

Don Ramlow and Old-Time Radio

Donald Ramlow has been involved with cultural arts since he was a young man, influenced in no little part by his grandparents, Donald Barringer, a musician ( who traveled throughout the US and Canada as “Don Barringer and his Wolverines) and his grandmother Helen (Mundy) Barringer who was briefly a silent film actress. Helen Mundy [...]

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Old Time Radio Recreations

The Gotham Radio Players

The Gotham Radio Players were formed in 1991 by a group of enthusiasts for the heyday of radio drama.  Their mission is to bring new productions of classic radio programs of the 1930′s, 1940′s, and 1950′s to the airwaves of the new millennium, as well as showcase original scripts written by the emerging audio dramatists [...]

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Sometimes it's only standing room only at an event.

HIGHLIGHTS OF PAST EVENTS

Over the past six years, the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention has been host to a number of great slide show presentations. The history of The Green Hornet was highlighted by commentary from Fran Striker Jr., whose father created the legendary masked vigilante. Terry Salomonson of Audio Classics in Howell, Michigan, presented a historical look back at [...]

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