February 13, 2025

Hope and a Future – A Guest Commentary

Here we go again … another heartfelt message from my friend – known as the Wizard of Ads, Roy H. Williams! If…

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January 23, 2025

The Turnpike Servers The Nation

The World’s Greatest Highway System … that’s what the Pennsylvania Turnpike was billed as when the first section of it opened on…

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December 31, 2024

2025 … a Year to Behold?

As we look forward to, maybe the word is anticipate, what this forthcoming new year holds … I literally sit here with…

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December 24, 2024

Merry Christmas!

From yours truly, Marlin and my trusty webmaster Trishah … here’s wishing you and yours a very Merry Christmas! And to our…

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December 12, 2024

Be You. And Make the Best of It. – A Guest Commentary!

If you are a regular follower of Marlin’s Musings, you recognize the name Roy Williams. I first met him in 2002 when…

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November 27, 2024

Thankfulness … or an Attitude of Gratitude!

There’s a Christian praise song whose opening line is “Give Thanks with a grateful heart,” … which truly rings close to my…

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November 14, 2024

RADIO… the early 1930s

This is a book I first read several years ago, having been loaned to me by my longtime radio industry friend, Ken…

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October 31, 2024

NRHS Convention 2024

The National Railway Historical Society (NRHS) held its 2024 convention in Harrisburg, the capital of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Attendees traveled to…

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October 17, 2024

Jerry & His DayStarters!

Jerry Del Colliano and I first met when he came to work for us in 1964 at Philadelphia’s fledgling FM station, WDVR….

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September 19, 2024

Riding Rockets & Shooting Stars – A Guest Commentary!

While I fully expected to bring you a fresh Musing of my own, and while I have a number on the drawing…

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August 29, 2024

Music, Maestro, Please…

It’s an art and a science. It’s a universal language. It stirs the senses, kindles the fires of memory, and soothes the…

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August 15, 2024

Seventy-Nine Years Ago this Week!

The date was August 14, 1945 … while I knew a war was going on and that the man who would become…

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