{
  "title": "CASTLES AND THEIR GHOSTS",
  "category": "[RADIO-SERIES]",
  "article": "[Decatur Evening Herald, 10/23/27] “…the series of stories which Wirtz [sic] W. Barnitz is\nrelating to National Broadcasting Company Red Network listeners under the general title ‘Castles\nand Their Ghosts’…”\n“Wirt Barnitz, editor of Nomad Magazine…”\nOriginally scheduled to have begun on Tuesday, June 14.\n[New Oxford Item, June 16, 1927] “Wirt W. Barnitz, native Hanoverian, traveler, editor and\nlecturer, began a series of stories by radio on Tuesday evening… The first of this series of talks,\nwhich will be related by Mr. Barnitz during the summer months through the New York station,\nwas entitled ‘Castles and their Ghosts’.”\n[Zanesville Signal, June 26, 1927] “He will be heard in one of these interesting narratives on\none Sunday evening each month… The unusual stories which he relates will be woven about many\nof the famous romantic castles of Europe which Mr. Barnitz has visited. Much of the history of\neach old stronghold will find its way into the narrative. Mr. Barnitz is believed to be one of the\noriginators of the radio short story form of literature and began his work with this sort of material\nin the early days of broadcasting.  His stories are related in a particularly noteworthy free and\neasy manner.”\n[Program information]",
  "origination": "WEAF, New York City, New York (NBC-RED).",
  "duration": "June 26-[October 23], 1927.",
  "personnel": "Wirt W. Barnitz (storyteller).",
  "extant_recordings": "None.\n[Program log]\nCASTLES AND THEIR GHOSTS (WEAF, NEW YORK—NBC-RED)\n[Tuesday—7:45-8:00 PM]\nJune 14, 1927\n[Sunday—8:45-10:00 PM]\nJune 26, 1927\nJuly 31, 1927\n“Castles on the Rhine and Their Ghosts”\nAugust 21, 1927\n“Medieval Castles and Their Ghosts”\n[Sunday—10:15-10:30 PM]\nOctober 23, 1927\n“The Ghost of Blarney Castle”\n“…The next ghost to step forth will be of Celtic variety… An ancient Irish\nspectre has resided for centuries in the Blarney Castle, it has been said,\nmaking the old pile at night no place for those of timid heart. Barnitz will\nrelate the experience of an encounter with this venerable ghost at a time\nwhen it was most palpably visible…”]",
  "chronology": "",
  "sources": "PERIODICALS: Decatur Herald.",
  "gallery": "",
  "images": []
}