What's On TV Today (1974)?

 I think I'm going to try to post a lot more at the HP. It's fun.

I did about a half hour of deep dive into the name and address listed on the cover of this TV Guide. I found the house in Rockland, Maine, where it was delivered. I found a preacher/author/publisher in Rockland with the same last name, who may or may not, of course, have been connected to the people. This fella has written a good bit about Universalists in Maine, and, indeed, the house where this TV Guide was delivered is just up Broadway/U.S. 1-A from a Universalist church. In its Google Maps picture, you can see several hand-printed signs in front of the church, along the street:

UB BRAVE

Rise Up in spite of the Ache

We Work For Justice

Rise UP

Don't Agonize/ORGANIZE

Well, whoever it was who lived in this house and paid for this TV Guide that my wife purchased for me off eBay, thank you. And thank you, Wife, for I sure enjoy flipping through it.

Here's what was on TV this Wednesday, Oct. 30, 1974, in Rockland, Maine.

Man, The Waltons sure was a big deal. My mom loved it.

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Thank You, Michael C. Cable

Super-sad article by Keith Lawrence in Owensboro's Messenger-Inquirer today about Sgt. Michael C. Cable, a 26-year-old from Philpot who was killed in Afghanistan on March 27. Sgt. Cable reportedly was playing with local children when he was stabbed in the throat. It's an incomprehensible world in which a 26-year-old from Philpot--he was born May 17, 1986, just a couple of weeks before Matthew and I were graduating Heath--gets killed in Afghanistan fighting in a war that is still going on 12 years after a couple of dozen lunatics with box-cutters tried to tip the whole world into chaos and fear. It's a freaking incomprehensible world. Thank you, Sgt. Cable, for your service. So sorry for your loss, Philpot. Dear Lord, please make the terrorists fail, and please end the wars.