The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 14, April 8, 2007, Article 4

SOME BACKGROUND ON THE ANA/ANS APRIL FOOLS PIECE

Ray Williams posted a copy of the piece on the Yahoo colonial coins 
group Tuesday. Dan Friedus wrote: "A classic worthy of Martin Nathaniel 
Daycious himself (and on the 15th anniversary of M.N. Daycious' 
masterpiece.)"

"The address of the alleged new home is truly inspired. The Peale 
Museum belonged to the City of Baltimore which had to shut it down 
sometime in the 1990s. They eventually transferred the museum collection 
to the Maryland Historical Society which apparently is considering 
trying to raise money to re-open it but it's the first museum in the 
country and it's now just locked up despite having both a great location 
and a great collection."

Dan's 'Martin Nathaniel Daycious' reference is to an April Fools joke 
perpetrated on a number of numismatic bibliophiles in the spring of 
1992. For more information, see the following 2002 E-Sylum item:

SHADES OF MARTIN NATHANIEL DAYCIUS
esylum_v05n15a06.html

The Orson Welles reference is to the October 30, 1938 Halloween radio 
broadcast of "War of the Worlds" which many listeners didn't realize 
was fiction. Hearing what sounded like legitimate news reports of 
meteors, space ships landing, and tentacled Martians disposing of 
7,000 armed soldiers with heat rays, thousands hid in cellars or fled 
in panic. Where did the Martians land? Grovers Mill, NJ.

For more background on the War of the Worlds hysteria, see: 
Full Story

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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