Small-town news

[Kevin Vahey]

One night at WMUR we tried to pull a fast one.

In Berlin, NH a roof collapsed on a skating rink and many were killed.
Our news director Ed Williams informs me that we will do a live remote
from Berlin. I'm saying to myself OKKKK.

I wheel one of the studio cameras out into the so called lobby and
pointed it out the window. Poor Tom Bonner stood on Elm St pretending
to be in Berlin. During the 'live shot' a Manchester city bus stops
behind Tom. Not missing a beat Tom reports that rescue workers from
Manchester have just arrived.

Another night I answer the phone and it is ABC wanting to know if we
had footage of a plane crash in NH. I replied what plane crash....

I could write a book about 1819 Elm