With grateful thanks to our Matt Leong who delivered this piece of awesome artwork for Jack’s book “The Age of Adventure- The Signet”
Go rush out and buy your piece of original work from Matt while you still can at Draw Something Cool. I have to gush as well, about Matt who is another of a short list of artists that I can never say enough about. Matt seems to have an endless imagination for drawing and not to mention comes up with some fantastic Audio Dramas. Please go check out and buy some of his work today!
When writing the Age of Adventure series, I leaned heavily upon my memories of my home towns, “Fergus” and “Elora” that was the source for Willard’s home towns of “Angus” and “Alora”.
Here’s Wikipedia’s description of “The Grand” river, inspiration for “The Divine” river.
Willard’s public school “James Black Elementary” was a mix of my public school James McQueen and my sister’s school John Black PS.
The Swimming Pool Will sneaks around that’s just situated on the banks of “The Divine” is based on the old swimming pool in Fergus. Unfortunately its been closed down. It needs a transfusion of funds, if anyone is a multi-millionaire looking at this.
One of my jobs I kept in university was working security nights at this Inn. They have a waterfall, and generate their own power and sell it back to the town for a profit!
Can you see Kyann and Willard playing in the Elora Gorge? Maybe here?
I’ve included all three promos here. All lovingly narrated by the amazingly talented, and my friend, Mr. Zombie Astronaut himself W. Ralph Walters from The Frequency of Fear.
I’d like to wax a little more fan-boy praise of Mr. Walters. Not only does he have a golden voice, not only does he write, produce, and act in his Frequency Lite shows. He also is a phenomenal artist.
I’m the grateful recipient of some of his posters, and they are truly works of art. If you have any money and any desire to produce something, PLEASE do yourself a favour and seek out his genius.
I grew up with the CBC. I can honestly say that much of my love of Audio Drama was ignited by this network. CBC Radio was on first thing in the morning, and I remember listening to shows on weekends, and in the evening. CBC kept me informed and grew my understanding of Canada, the United States, and the World. CBC is family to me. Nothing more and nothing less.
And because it is family, CBC has kept me comforted during long lonely drives, rides across the country where everything was unfamiliar- CBC was home.
So I’m asking, from me, Jack Ward, that you support this initiative. CBC STILL keeps me, many Canadians here and abroad, and citizens from all around the world informed, entertained, and connected- ESPECIALLY now through their podcasts. As a public broadcaster its been able through the generations to create some of the best new audio drama in the world, train some of the most exciting new talent, and annoy politicians and private businesses because their business has been reporting the truth.
Help protect one of these last bastions of the public, please?
Thanks to new Listener Lisa, I got a gentle reminder that since Libsyn had moved us to their new server, we had some of our earliest Season 1 episodes in a mixed up state.
So going through the feed, I discovered some duplicates files as well as reorganize the order of the shows.
Now, hopefully Listener Lisa will let me know if any of the podcast files are a little wonky… and hopefully she’ll enjoy the early days of the Sonic Society!
