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Still Seeking Samantha
I apologize, I'm slapping this together before bed ...
But I got all excited today while listening to your archived interview with Michael Mott, when the conversation turned to Ray Palmer, FATE magazine, and then suddenly I heard you say you visited Mr. Palmer at his home in Amherst, Wisconsin! I grew up there!!!!!!
If you were there in the mid 70s shortly before Mr. Palmer's death, I would have been just a little kid. But I went past the old Palmer Publications building every day to school.
All evening I've been overtaken by nostalgia for Amherst, which I couldn't stand as a teenager--there's nothing there! I remembered my grandmother mentioning something about Mr. Palmer once, and how he published strange books with pictures of milk can lids that had been tossed into the air, and rocks that supposedly had the forms of "people" inside.
It was just SO cool to listen and fill in some of those very dusty memories with new information. And after just doing a few quick searches on the Internet, I see now what I had absolutely NO idea of when I was growing up: that Mr. Palmer was such an important and influential figure in the genre of science fiction. If I had known that back then, I think I would have tried to seek out members of his family to learn more, and to see if I could get my hands on some of those old pulp publications.
And speaking of the Palmer family, another lightbulb went on as I was Googling Ray Palmer: I actually met his son, Ray B. Palmer, about 10 or 12 years ago. He just happened to be paying a spontaneous visit to a family member of mine who he knew from many years earlier, and I dropped in at the same time. He was just the nicest guy you ever could have wanted to meet. Here's a link to an interview with Mr. Palmer's son that I stumbled across: The UFO Forum.
And here are some other images of Ray Palmer and my boring little hometown of Amherst, WI
If you ever happen to come through again, I hope you wouldn't mind allowing me to buy you a cup of coffee.
I wanted to find some pictures of things that you might have remembered from back then. I'm sorry, I couldn't find much. You might remember the water tower, Tomorrow River Supper Club on the banks of the Tomorrow River, the old mill dam on the Mill Pond:
But I got all excited today while listening to your archived interview with Michael Mott, when the conversation turned to Ray Palmer, FATE magazine, and then suddenly I heard you say you visited Mr. Palmer at his home in Amherst, Wisconsin! I grew up there!!!!!!
If you were there in the mid 70s shortly before Mr. Palmer's death, I would have been just a little kid. But I went past the old Palmer Publications building every day to school.
All evening I've been overtaken by nostalgia for Amherst, which I couldn't stand as a teenager--there's nothing there! I remembered my grandmother mentioning something about Mr. Palmer once, and how he published strange books with pictures of milk can lids that had been tossed into the air, and rocks that supposedly had the forms of "people" inside.
It was just SO cool to listen and fill in some of those very dusty memories with new information. And after just doing a few quick searches on the Internet, I see now what I had absolutely NO idea of when I was growing up: that Mr. Palmer was such an important and influential figure in the genre of science fiction. If I had known that back then, I think I would have tried to seek out members of his family to learn more, and to see if I could get my hands on some of those old pulp publications.
And speaking of the Palmer family, another lightbulb went on as I was Googling Ray Palmer: I actually met his son, Ray B. Palmer, about 10 or 12 years ago. He just happened to be paying a spontaneous visit to a family member of mine who he knew from many years earlier, and I dropped in at the same time. He was just the nicest guy you ever could have wanted to meet. Here's a link to an interview with Mr. Palmer's son that I stumbled across: The UFO Forum.
And here are some other images of Ray Palmer and my boring little hometown of Amherst, WI
If you ever happen to come through again, I hope you wouldn't mind allowing me to buy you a cup of coffee.I wanted to find some pictures of things that you might have remembered from back then. I'm sorry, I couldn't find much. You might remember the water tower, Tomorrow River Supper Club on the banks of the Tomorrow River, the old mill dam on the Mill Pond:
