Although he was an accomplished drummer, Alan Abel marched to his own beat. I met him while playing in the Westport Community Band in the 1990s – what a long, strange gig it has been.

Dear NASA, can my Fother and I go to the Moon on Apoll 13.

To foresee and to catalogue all the implications of having a radio-controlled miniature printing press in every home of the nation would indeed require a bolder and better mind than mine.– John V.L. Hogan

Original member of the the Macy’s Student Advisory Commission.