Every year at the annual Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention, a film festival that draws in thousands of people from all over the country, attendees are given a free full-color printed program guide. Besides the usual celebrity biographies and schedule of events, the program guide contains magazine articles worthy of reading. The program guide has been given away at the event for more than a decade and has since become the face of the convention. Those who cannot attend the event write in to ask for a copy, even paying for the shipping costs. Summed up, the program guides are treated like an annual magazine that people are willing to pay for, even if they do not attend the event.
Robert Matzen, an author of numerous books about vintage Hollywood celebrities, contributed three articles for the recent program guide. From James Stewart's World War II career to Carole Lombard's plane crash, Matzen was able to dig into he archives and document the details that were often overlooked by other authors and biographers. His articles are top-notch and for that reason I am including a link for people to download a PDF for free. Enjoy the program guide, assuming you were not able to get to the show this past September, and do yourself a favor by booking a hotel room and pre-registering your admission today for this year's event, September 7 to 9, 2023.
