WOW Returns to Grovers Mill

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Ann Robinson, star of the 1953 ‘War of the Worlds’ (WOW) movie, visits Grovers Mill, the site of the Martian landing in Orson Welles’ historic WOW radio broadcast on October 31, 1938.##M:[more]##

She is shown with township officials at the WOW monument in Van Nest Park on the broadcast’s 67th anniversary. Pictured, from left, are Planning Board Chairman Marvin Gardner, Business Administrator Chris Marion, Robinson, Council Vice President Franc Gambatese, and Community Development Director Pat Ward.

Robinson arranged her visit after finding the website for Gambatese’s Grover’s Mill Coffee Company.

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