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Article: 'We Take You Now To Grovers Mill'; On Halloween Eve, 63 years ago a 'War of the Worlds' broke out in rural Jersey.
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- The Washington Post
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- October 31, 2001
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ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen, here is the latest bulletin from
the Intercontinental Radio News . . . . It is reported that at 8:50
p.m. a huge, flaming object, believed to be a meteorite, fell on a
farm in the neighborhood of Grovers Mill, N.J.
We take you now to Grovers Mill, N.J.
Mabel Dey -- you can call her "Lolly" like everyone else does --
was 16 years old when the Martians landed here. And even today, 63
years later, she can remember the smallest of eerie details from that
foggy night when Grovers Mill found itself in the interplanetary
cross hairs.
It was Oct. 30, 1938, and Dey was at church.
"That particular night, I was at the piano," remembers Dey, "when
someone, I think it was ...