80 years ago, Earth was invaded by Martians

By Ashley Hunter Riverbend News “We know now that in the early years of the 20th century, this world was being watched closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own. We know now that as human beings busied themselves about their various concerns, they were scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.” So began a particular Sunday evening on Oct. 30, 1938. Orson Welles was behind the microphone that evening as he opened up the broadcast of Welles’s Mercury Theatre Company's production of The War of the Worlds. Only 23-years-old, W