The Annual Mid Atlantic Nostalgia Convention again in Hunt Valley, MD, was a sentimental trip down memory lane as a vast array of vendors hawked their books, posters, dvd's, and toys to recall the older movies and TV shows. Several entertainment personalities showed for pictures and autographs including William Sanderson (Blade Runner and Newhart), Jay North (the original TV Dennis the Menace), Ron Ely (TV's Tarzan), and Robert Colbert (The Time Tunnel) among others. 

But the highlight was movie and TV star Shirley Jones who was Laurey in Oklahoma, a hooker in Elmer Gantry which won her an Oscar, Marian the librarian in The Music Man, and of course, the mom of the Partridge Family on TV. In fact her little co-star in Music Man and The Courtship of Eddie's Father (film) whom she still keeps in contact is Ron Howard!  Another big name attending the convention was singer/actor James Darren who was boyfriend to Gidget (film), a hero in The Guns of Navarone, a scientist in my favorite, The Time Tunnel, and a holographic singer/sage in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.  It was a thrill to meet these icons.