“Return with us now to those thrilling days
of yesteryear!”
Early in life we have many exciting dreams about what we want to become. Some of us want to be sports stars; some
want to be soldiers, police officers or firefighters; some doctors and
nurses. The list can, and often does, go
on and on, changing only with our newest life experiences and encounters.
I
wanted to be the Lone Ranger – certain that the words I was reading in comic
book pages were being transcribed directly from tales the masked man himself
was sharing with someone preparing the story for my edification. That belief, of course, was reinforced
through the magic of our Motorola console radio, which filled our tiny living
room with the wonderful sounds of his voice, the neighing of his great horse Silver,
and the sonorous sounds of the narrator.
The series, which first came onto the airwaves
in Feb. 1933, was still going strong on radio stations everywhere when I was a small
boy in the early 1950s, although it was about to be usurped by the TV show of
the same name. Either way, I was caught
up in the wonderful stories each week and waited anxiously for their
arrival. In between, I read the comic
books and dreamed of being like my hero.
Clayton Moore as The Lone Ranger
Silver as Silver
But when I reached the age of 7 or 8
I accepted the fact that the Lone Ranger – at least as I knew him – wasn’t
real. At first I was disappointed. But then I realized that the power of words could
make any dream reality. I could be any
character in any story, transported through time just by reading.
Thus as the narrator would say: “Return with us now to those thrilling days . . . !” Writing,
done right, can make it so.
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