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Deborah Nordoff

*"This is Debbie Nordoff, Ashford Falls Falls News." - Deborah Nordoff*

**Deborah Nordoff** is a newspaper and television reporter based in Ashford Falls and an employee of WTEN News through Ashford Falls Falls newspaper which has its own TV news affiliate.

Deborah is the daughter of Andrew Nordoff, a local real estate developer who became part of the town council with Douglas Greer. Resisting the name "Debbie" through her youth, she attended Ashford Falls High School, becoming friends with Helen Caldwell, Caitlin Featherstone, Maddie Harrington and Janet DuBois. With Helen and Caitlin, she was a frequent nemesis of local heiress Rachel Hedison who pulled numerous favors from Cecil Borden to further her reputation and hinder Helen's standing in their class.

While in high school, Deborah was pursued romantically by Danny Featherstone and Russell Coleman, who she often dismissed in order to attract Quentin Baldwin. She was on the school newspaper, "The Badger," and earned a scholarship through Monica Hedison, Dr. Alan Fairwood, Dr. Albert Waverly and town councilman Douglas Greer. She attended Ashford Falls Christian Normal with Janet, and became a rival of Diana Freeling, who was younger than her and more competitive. Through Caitlin, Deborah later got a job at the Ashford Falls Falls, starting out as a type-setter at the Ashford Falls Falls and gradually becoming a writer and reporter.

Through her career, Deborah started writing obituaries and small articles on local events for the newspaper, eventually writing articles on major events in town such as the murder of Monica Hedison, Rachel's car accident at the Ashford Falls Scenic Lookout, Ty Hedison's return to town and Len Snedeker coming out as a cross-dresser at the town's annual bicentennial. After the newspaper developed it's own TV news team through WTEN News out of Albany, she started extending her career into being a TV news reporter. She covered much of the local attacks on women in the Winter of 1988, becoming a victim herself and identifying Bud Mason as her assailant. Through her career, Deborah was Helen Caldwell's main source on the illicit activities of the Hedison Family, covering Rachel's second accident at the lookout and the buried story of Rachel and Janet being switched at birth as infants, an incident Janet used to try and get revenge on Rachel. Her feud with Diana also decreased in intensity, the two of them uniting against their common hatred of the Hedisons.

Over the years, Deborah renewed her relationship with Russell, the two of them eventually sharing an apartment at the Owens Apartment House. They split up during the 1995 Mayoral race where Deborah supported Sabrina Collins and Russell supported Carl Griggs, but after the election, they renewed their relationship.
Coleman's Repair Shop

**Coleman's Repair Shop** was the primary automobile repair shop in Ashford Falls, New York. Once located at the three-way intersection of Griffith Street, Church Street and Alley Street across from the original Ashord Falls Courthouse and on the southwest corner of the Ashford Falls Town Square.

Once known as the Old Stidham House, the structure was built in the 1860s and already empty by the 1900s. The front walkway and stone wall out front was demolished to make room for two-way traffic on Griffith Road, and the town's original repairman and junk dealer, Jonah Coleman, the father of Jack Coleman, opened the front up in order to build a garage out of it, even going as far as adding the exterior office later. After working for his father for several years, Jack took it over in the 1930s as more and more people started getting cars. He also stored cars in the back half of the property for Lincoln Hedison, Thomas Pritchett and a few other citizens until the city passed an ordnance against it.

When Russell Coleman started working there for his father, the garage became a local hang-out for several of his friends, such as Daniel Featherstone, Quentin Baldwin and Len Snedeker among others. Len even took a job here when Jack started cutting back his hours and as Jack continued to get overwhelmed, he hired Samantha Strickland to help out as well. Jack really wanted the garage to be a family affair with his wife and other children working with him, but William Coleman turned out not to be mechanically inclined and Taylor Coleman was too much his wife's daughter to be interested.

Len, however, continued working for Jack after Russell joined the Marines and Samantha joined the police academy. For a while, Len was running alone for a while, the business dropping back now that there were three more repair shops in town. Despite Jack being in strong health, he eventually reached a point he could no longer do the hard work. Russell returned after his medical discharge from the Marines, but in June 1985, he and Len were using the upstairs rafters to pull an engine out of a car when they broke the beam of the structure and nearly collapsed the roof. With the structure now condemned, Russell and Blake Hedison helped Len build a new garage out on Haverstraw Road and Russell broke off and created Rus Customs in nearby Winchester, later moving back to Ashford Falls years later.

Sitting derelict for a short time, the old mansion-turned-garage was demolished in August 1987. The cars which Jack once kept there were taked to the Old Coleman Home near the Haverstraw community. The old stores along Church Street behind it were also demolished.
Johnny Moran

**Johnny Moran** is an American actor known for the films "Pleasantville," "Open Season" and "Night of the Demons 2" alongside Amelia Kinkade, Zoe Trilling and Rod McCary.

Born in Chicago, Moran was already acting by age 16. He had appeared in some Chicago theater and numerous commercials and radio spots, starring in his first movie, "Up Against the Wall," with Marla Gibbs in 1991. Moving to Los Angeles, he starred in many other films, such as "Night of the Demons 2," "Open Season" and "Pleasantville" along with appearances in the television shows "True Colors," "Step By Step," "The Client," "Pacific Blue" and a recurring role in "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman."
Today, Johnny lives on the East Coast with his wife, Jennie, and his two beautiful girls, Julia Moran and Jessie Moran, both of whom are pursuing their own acting careers as well.
Sidewalk Restaurant

The **Sidewalk Restaurant** is a public eatery located on Winchester Road in Ashford Falls, New York. Formerly the Patio Cafe, it was founded in the Eighties on the plot of land created when Mayor Lionel Creekmore redirected part of Highway 12 away from the Ashford Falls Town Square. With the highway moved to preserve the structures on the square, a building was built on the corner of the square where main street connected with Winchester Road. That structure later became Pierce Veterinary, while the remaining space on Winchester Road became patio seating for a diner on the spot that became the Patio Cafe.

Known for gourmet sandwiches and continental dishes, the cafe closed down around 1989 as the exhaust from the cars going by made the extra seating unforgiving. While it was closed, Nicole Browne lived illegally on the property, but after she left town, the location re-opened as the Sidewalk Cafe. having taken over extra space from the warehouse next to it as a dining area. The outside seating on the street is still available to its clientele but it mostly optional. Annie Houghton and Mae Tisdale are former waitresses.

Its customers include Janet DuBois, Dr. Alan Fairwood, Daniel Waverly, Jason Pryde, Marcia Caldwell, Douglas Greer, Deborah Nordoff and former mayor Lionel Creekmore.
I Fought the Law (song)

**I Fought the Law** is a song written in 1958 by Sonny Curtis of the Crickets. It appeared on a homonymous single of the band in 1960.

The song was re-recorded in 1965 by the Bobby Fuller Four and reached No. 11 on the Canadian RPM Top Singles and No. 9 on the US Billboard Hot 100. Further versions were released, among others, by The Clash in 1979 and by Dead Kennedys in 1987.

Bryan Adams performed a cover version of the Crickets' song as an encore during a concert of his Into the Fire Tour on July 3, 1988 at the Rock Werchter 1988 music festival in Belgium. The show was recorded, and the song appeard on Adam's first solo album Live! Live! Live! which was released in 1988. The live performance also appeared as a music video on Adam's video album So Far So Good (and More).
Hedgecombe Cemetery

**Hedgecombe Cemetery** is a historic burial ground in Ashford Falls, New York. It was named after Victor Hedgecombe, who farmed the land in the 1890s.

Donated to the city around 1910, the grounds held a small family cemetery for the Hedgecombe Family, and it was donated to the city with the understanding the area become used as the local town cemetery. The grounds were used steadily as a burial ground from 1910 to 1922 until the 1930s when Kirkeby Chapel and Cemetery became more fashionble for its view.

In the 1950s, however, the graveyard at the First Evangelical Church of Ashford Falls was extended northward from behind the church on Church Road to Ritter Drive. In the process, the forgotten Hedgecombe Cemetery was re-discovered and was added to the grounds of the church. Surrounded by woodlands, the old Hedgecombe Family Cemetery and crypt is now a historical site, protected by a bill signed by Mayor Lionel Creekmore, for whom it was almost named for.

Over the years, several people have been laid to rest here. Both Fletcher DuBois and his wife, Louise DuBois have been laid to rest here. Monica Hedison, Amelia Warren, Johnathan Trout, former Sheriff Lionel Taft, Jerrold Waverly and possibly Jerrold's brother, Dr. Albert Waverly lay at rest here.

In the 1990s, Russell Coleman has been wandering the grounds intermittently looking for evidence of paranormal activity.
William Rollins

**William Rollins** is an American TV actor best known for his role as Jason Pryde on "Beyond Our Dreams."

Rollins was born September 25, 1980 in Springwood, Ohio, he grew up in a sports-oriented family. His father, Jack Rollins, was a high school football coach at Bates High School, and his mother, Janet Rollins, was a kindergarten teacher. He had three older sisters named Christine, Cynthia and Teresa.

At the age of eight, Rollins starred in a series of commercials for the Weston Hills Zoo that lead to commercials for Toyota, Burger King, Pepsi and Delta Airlines. The Pepsi commercials were so popular that he was cast as Jason Pryde, the childhood friend of Marcia Caldwell on the daytime drama, Beyond Our Dreams, later replacing Jeremy Lookinland as Billy Dillon, the son of Carter Dillon on the 1983 to 1994 Western comedy, "Psycho Dad."

While starring on both shows, Rollins lived on Staten Island with his Aunt Catherine Bartilson, a television writer, near the home of actress McKenzie Olsen, who played Mae Tisdale on Beyond Our Dreams, spending his hiatuses at home in Ohio. However, both shows were cancelled by 1994 and he returned home.

Attending Bates High School in his teens, William played football briefly until an injury wrecked his ankle. He then started getting into making short films, mostly about the legend of Freddie Krueger, the 1960s serial killer who once terrorized Springwood, Illinois. He dabbled in acting again with Beyond Our Dreams: Return to Ashford Falls, and roles in "Eddie vs Johnny," "Kenny Saves The World" and the film version of "Psycho Dad" with actress Alyssa Rees-Jones. He also did seven episodes of the paranormal documentary, "Most Haunted Houses," with his former "Dreams" co-star Maddie Bouchard, the two of them briefly dating.

Rollins has since been making short horror films and comedy skits.
Mariscos

**Mariscos** is a Spanish and French-speaking island nation seventy-five miles off the coast of Mexico known as a vacation spot for travelers and tourists. Covering 2,175 square miles, the people are descendants of the native inhabitants, Spanish settlers and French explorers. It has an agrarian society whose chief exports are sea food, goat milk, goat cheese and cigars. The only cities on the island are Equarico, Turbot and Carpaccio with small communities on the nearby islands of Abalone, Beluga and Caluga.

According to legend, the island was first settled by a Quecha-speaking people and conquered by the Spanish conquistadors in the 15th Century. The Spanish soon created a government on the island and a military post that developed into a totalitarian government by the 1700s which was overthrown by 1845. Converting into a Democratic Republic, the island elected its first President in 1933, becoming an ally to the United States during World War Two. In the 1950s, businessman Ricardo Cancilliere became President and started allowing tourists into the country, bringing money into their collapsing economy. Through his American friend, Lincoln Hedison, Equarico became a sister city with Ashford Falls, New York with several Mariscos residents moving to the communities of Kirkeby and Haverstraw near Ashford Falls.

Now a burgeoning vacation spot in the Pacific, the island has been visited for its beaches and hotels by Blake Hedison and Caitlin Featherstone. Carter Hedison and Rebecca Logue have been guests by Cavalleri. Dr. Alan Fairwood, Vernon Potts, Samantha Strickland, William Coleman, Bradley Larabee, Honor Thompson and Rachel Hedison have also vacationed here. Helen Caldwell has long attempted to get Dr. Paul Kirkwood to vacation with her here, but he has eluded her instead to pursue Rachel.

* Beluga and Cayuga off shore
* Ruins of the Old Mexican Palace over the bay
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Tony Steedman

**Anthony Francis Steedman** was an English character actor whose career spans over a hundred and fifty roles over almost fifty years in both England and the United States. He is possibly best known in the USA for the role of Socrates in "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure."

Not much is known about Tony's past. He was born somewhere in Warwickshire County, England on August 21, 1927 and pursued acting as a career; his first appearances were in the short "Story Conference" and the film, "The Case of Private Hamp." Most of his work was on stage in the West End of London and on television. His TV roles include appearances in "The Feathered Serpent," "The Professionals," "Coronation Street," "Dixon of Dock Green," "The Avengers," "Babylon 5," "The Sweeney," "Minder" and "Strange But True." He met his first wife, Ann Taylor, in 1957 during a production of "Oklahoma!" getting married that same year and having a daughter, Amanda Steedman, before they divorced in 1963.

Steedman had a recurring role as Dr. Butterworth in the British soap opera "Crossroads" and was a regular in the final two seasons of the BBC sitcom "Citizen Smith" from 1978 to 1980. He played Nazi General Alfred Jodl twice, first in "The Death of Adolf Hitler" in 1973 and in "The Bunker" in 1981. He also took several roles in the United States, appearing in the TV shows "The A-Team," "The Fall Guy," "The Facts of Life," "My Two Dads," "Golden Girls" and "Married With Children" before getting his iconic role of Socrates in the iconic motion picture, "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure." Working steadily on both sides of the Atlantic in both comedic and dramatic roles, he starred in Delirious with John Candy and Emma Samms in the USA and returned to England where he appeared in the TV shows "Casualty," "In Suspicious Circumstances" and "Animal Ark."

Sadly, in the later years of his life, Steedman suffered from Alzheimer's and passed away at the age of 73 on February 4, 2001 in Haywards Heath, England, survived by his second wife of almost forty years, actress Judy Parfitt. The two of them had jointly ran Allerway Limited, an artistic creation company, and had a son, David, who was born in 1964. He was buried in East London Cemetery, Plaistow, London.
Ted Shaw

*"Don't call me that. Please just don't call me that." - Ted Shaw*

**Theodore "Ted" Shaw** is the owner and manager of the Dirty Irene's Restaurant in Ashford Falls, New York. Not much is known about his life as he is a very private person, but it is known he is a native of town. As a teenager, he briefly dated local veterinarian Dorothy Pierce, but they drifted apart after he joined the Navy.

Serving abroad in the Mediterranean and South Pacific, Shaw rose to the rank of captain, but received an honorable discharge after an unrevealed injury in the Philippines. He married a former USO Dancer named Dawn Wilkerson and returned to Ashford Falls where he acquired the Old Haverstraw Diner. In the restoration, he found an old sign with the name "Dirty Irene's" on it, and he saved it for his restaurant.

With Dawn, Ted and his wife had two daughters, Emily and Megan, and a son a few years later named Patrick. He also took over ownership of two more restaurants in town, known as the Mallards near the Ashford Falls Scenic Lookout and the Golden Nugget near the Ashford Falls State Bank. For a while, Carolyn Strickland, Chloe Waverly and Wendell Vaughn worked for him. He once again became friends with Dorothy, who also became friends with his wife, but also with Ted Beauchamp, Danny Waverly and Daniel Featherstone, whose father, Nate Featherstone, also took a shine to Ted over their shared Navy experiences. Their friendship was almost entirely one-sided because Nate persistently called Ted "Little Buddy," a nick-name Ted wasn't fond of.

Over the years, Ted faced off with Carter Hedison in trying to acquire the Dirty Irene's or Golden Nugget properties several times. As a Democrat, he has had some political aspirations, trying to get on the town council in 1987, but losing to Heidi Shumaker, and running as mayor in 2001 against Nate and Carl Griggs, who won. He once was a member of the local Eagles Club, but he let his membership lapse.

In 1989, Ted felt Irene's was threatened when a new restaurant known as the Worsham's was built across the street from his place, but three of his frequent customers, Len Snedeker, Russell Coleman and Quentin Baldwin, took it upon themselves to create a fake Native American burial ground on the site and other chicanery to delay or prevent the build. When they were arrested by Sheriff David Carmichael, Shaw had to swear he was not involved in the subterfuge.

Despite Worsham's opening in the area, Irene's stayed in business. In fact, the fresh traffic in the area helped his business, and he ended up opening a new restaurant, General Wayne's Bar and Grill on Wyckoff Road at the end of Canyon Road under partnership with Beauchamp.

In 1995, Shaw supported Sabrina Collins in the mayoral election.
Candace Waverly

*"This town needs a festival to inspire morale and bring us together. Something to make us proud.... other than our common disdain for Carter Hedison." - Candace Waverly*

**Candace Waverly** is a resident of Ashford Falls, New York and a descendant of the Satterwhite Family, one of the area's founding families. A member of the town's Fine Art Ladies League, she is well known in the town's social and community functions.
The Delirious Movie Wikia

## **The Ashford Falls Wiki**

The Home of Jack Gable's famous TV Series "Beyond Our Dreams" from the 1991 movie "Delirious."

## **Welcome To Ashford Falls**

Ashford Falls is the home of Paul Kirkwood, Janet DuBois and Rachel Hedison, characters from the fictional TV series "Beyond Our Dreams" featured in the 1991 movie, "Delirious" starring John Candy, David Rasche, Mariel Hemingway and Emma Samms along with a cast of comedy and drama actors. This website expands on the scope of that fictional universe, using details and quotes from the movie while creating new story-lines from other modern dramas ranging from "Dallas" to "Dark Shadows." After all, if struggling writers can expand the worlds of George Lucas and Gene Roddenberry and establish larger franchise universes, why can't I do with with a Tom Mankiewitz movie? This site also serves as the center of the TV and Movie Universe with storylines and biographies linking to TV shows and films while granting biographies to several little known or obscure actors and actresses from the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties using this site's premise as home base. If you have any questions or concerns or just an obscure actor whom you want to recommend, please send them here.

**Delirious** is a 1991 fantasy comedy film starring John Candy, Mariel Hemingway, Emma Samms and Raymond Burr (in his last film role before his death). It tells the story of a soap opera writer typing without a ribbon. When Jack Gates (John Candy) wakes up after getting hit with a truck, he wakes up within the world of his television series, a nightmare that turns into a chance to meet his dream date. The movie features the song "Delirious" by Prince from his "1999" album released in 1982. Although the movie was considered a commercial failure after its release, holding a 44% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, it has actually become a small cult hit with a small legion of loyal fans.
Monarch Road

**Monarch Road** is an affluent street and neighborhood  southeast of town off Canyon Road lined with several of the most expensive mansions and homes in Ashford Falls including the Hedison Mansion which is hidden behind an eight-foot tall brick wall. Dr. Albert Waverly, Dr. Alan Fairwood and Carl Griggs also have homes in the area.
William Mims

**William Mims** was an American character actor, possibly best known for his roles in the films "The Day Mars Invaded Earth," "The Ballad of Cable Hogue," and "Hot Rods to Hell."

Not much is known about his life and career. He was born on January 15, 1927 in Carthage, Missouri. As an adult, he made his debut in the 1956 film "I Killed Wild Bill Hickok," later receiving an uncredited role in "No Name on the Bullet" in 1959.

Through the Sixties, he worked steadily in the movies, mostly in Westerns, such as "Young Jesse James," "Walk Tall," "Sanctuary," "Battle at Bloody Beach," "Wild in the Country," "The Children's Hour Mr. Burton," "Lonely Are the Brave," "The Day Mars Invaded Earth," "The Ugly American," "Kisses for My President" and an almost unrecognized role as a frock-coat man in "Paint Your Wagon." Between movies, he appeared on such TV shoes as "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp," "Perry Mason," "Thriller," "Have Gun - Will Travel," "The Twilight Zone," "Wild Wild West," "Wagon Train," "Hogan's Heroes," "McHale's Navy," "I Spy" and "Adam 12." His most popular role on TV was the actor Granny thinks is General Grant on "The Beverly Hillbillies."

Through the Seventies, he made the movies "The Ballad of Cable Hogue" and "Lost Flight," but by this point, he was working almost exclusively as a character actor on TV, appearing on "Petticoat Junction," "Gunsmoke," "Mayberry R.F.D." "Night Gallery," "Mannix," "Bonanza," "Ironsides," "Marcus Welby, M.D.," "Kolchak: The Night Stalker," "Columbo" and "Fantasy Island."

In the Eighties, he starred on "The Dukes of Hazzard," "Matt Houston," "Charlie's Angels," "Simon & Simon," "Airwolf," "Murder, She Wrote" and the TV mini-series "North and South, Book II" as Secretary of War William Seward. His last role was in the TV series, "Falcon Crest."

Mims passed away from a cardiac arrest on April 9, 1991 on Studio City near Los Angeles, California. He was 64. He was survived by his wife of thirty-six years, Nancy Lou Irgang.
New York Delicatessen

The **New York Delicatessen** is a local Ashford Falls eatery on Main Street known for it's New York-style sandwiches and dishes. It was built to match the architectural style of the original New York Delicatessen on West 57th Street in New York City. For this reason, it is sometimes locally known as the *West 57th Street Delicatessen*.

The eatery first appeared mysteriously in the Ashford Falls Town Square during the weekend of Jack Gable's visit to Ashford Falls. Owned and run by Manny Kretchmer, the owner of the New York restaurant, its exterior appearance on the square is a violation to the historical zoning laws protecting the appearance of the square, but it still manages to be a popular restaurant and gathering place in town.

Selling over twenty-five styles of sandwiches with a number of side items, the location is also available for catering, but most of its business is from its lunch and dinner crowds. Jack took Janet DuBois here on their first date together, and Dr. Paul Kirkwood has ordered lunch from here, sometimes meeting Helen Caldwell or Rachel Hedison here. Lionel Creekmore, Benny Waverly, Sabrina Collins, Len Snedeker, Danny Featherstone, Dr. Elizabeth Freeling and Maury Gifford have also been seen dining here.
Winchester Road

**Winchester Road** is the local name applied to Highway 12 and Highway 191 which weaves through the end of the Adirondack Mountains through Ashford Falls from Albany and Brant Lake in the South to Winchester and Port Henry in the North. Before 1940, it was known as Northeasterly Road and became known as Adirondack Turnpike, Winchester Turnpike, Ashford Road and Craddock Pass before 1954 when the area first started appearing in local road maps. Weaving through the hills, peaks and valleys in the area, the road is covered by stretching vistas of woodlands, ravines and Winchester Lake, covering the fifteen miles between Ashford Falls and Winchester with little traffic. In the 70s, Mayor Lionel Creekmore extended Winchester Road around town to keep trucks from going through town, forming the northern Winchester Turnpike outside of town from a part of the former Culbertson Road near Hedison Pharmaceuticals and Ashford Falls High School area.

* Route to WinchesterGo to Winchester
* Route to WinchesterGo to Winchester
* Winchester Road North at Haverstraw RoadGo to Haverstraw Road
* Winchester Road South near Canyon RoadGo to Canyon Road
* South Tunnel heading north (before Coogan's Creek)
* Coogan's Creek Bridge on Winchester Road heading northGo to Coogan's Creek Bridge
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Mill City

**Mill City** is a small community located six miles west from Winchester and on the northwest shore of Winchester Lake. Founded somewhere between 1790 and 1800, it was established as a lumber camp and later a limestone quarry in the Early 19th Century, but it went into decline after the Civil War as more people settled in nearby Ashford Falls. In recent years, the area is mostly dotted with abandoned warehouses and factories, but it still the home of several families and shops, such as Mill City Typewriter Repair. The community became part of Winchester in 1985.

Today, many of the old back roads and alley ways are used by fast cars fanatics like Daniel Featherstone and others. Sheriff Earl Hackett from Winchester regular patrols the area to deter trespassers and would-be paranormal explorers like Melissa Strickland.
Paragon Jewelers

**Paragon Jewelers** was one of three local jewelry stores in Ashford Falls, the others being Hancock Jewelers and the locally-owned Ashford Falls Jewelry Store. It was located on Church Street around the corner from the diner and between the car rental place and the Ashford Falls Public Library with Madame Lily's Ballet School upstairs on the second floor. Rachel Hedison was a regular customer here, having met Jack Gable in front of the store. Samantha Strickland also had her grandmother's jewelry appraised here.
Vernon Potts

*"I'm here to print the news. It might not be pretty. It might not be appropriate. It might be misspelled and full of typos, but it will be the news.... Not a bunch of horror fluff that would have people screaming in the streets." - Vernon Potts*

**Jonna Spears** is a resident of Ashford Falls, New York and the editor of the Ashford Falls Falls Newspaper as well as producer for the newspaper's public access news program. Principled, astute and decisive, he is also known for his role on the town's city council.
Samantha Troy

*"Oh, trust me, the name "Harry Potter" is going to be very famous someday." - Samantha Troy*

**Samantha Troy** was a nanny to Fletcher DuBois and Louise DuBois in Ashford Falls in the Late Sixties and Early Seventies. Not much is known about her, but she is apparently far older than she seems, apparently maintaining a youthful appearance and capable of feats and accomplishments that locals might perceive as "magic." As a nanny to young Rachel Hedison and Janet DuBois, she had a seemingly mystical rapport with the girls as infants and an ability to somehow get numerous chores done at once.

According to her resume, Samantha has been a nanny to several children over the years, including but not limited to Marilyn Munster of Mockingbird Heights, California and Richard Petrie of New Rochelle, New York. She was later hired by Monica Hedison to help with her children, Rachel and Blake Hedison in 1963. Although Monica gave Samantha a room in the Hedison Mansion, Samantha seemed to make her home somewhere else in town. However, Monica later arranged to have Samantha work for Louise DuBois and help raise Janet DuBois for the rest of her employment.

After Louise passed away, her husband let Samantha go to raise Janet by himself. She later turned up in Westport, Connecticut, helping raise Amanda Stephens, the second daughter of Darren and Samantha Stephens, the children of the Collins Family in Collinsport, Maine and Christine Seaver for Dr. Jason and Maggie Seaver of Massapequa, New York. However, by this point, she was going by the name "Julie Costello." She has also gone by the names "Tabitha Reason" and "Sabrina Jordson."

Samantha briefly returned to Ashford Falls in Late 1988 as a student at Ashford Falls Christian Normal, becoming friends with Janet DuBois and Deborah Nordoff. After graduating, she was last seen hitch-hiking out of town for a nanny job in Cape Side, Massachusetts and crossing Coogan's Creek. She later turned up as a nursing student in London as friends with Helen Caldwell and Lisa Craigmiles, protecting Helen from Loren Rhodes. Her current whereabouts are unrevealed.
The Girl

*"Excuse me... but my eyes are up here." - The Girl*

**The Girl** is a native and long time resident of Ashford Falls. She is known for her jogging regime through town, but mostly for distracting the male locals in town.

For several years, the Girl's name and identity was unknown as she popped up and around town, mostly as she shopped or walked along Main Street and Church Street. In her time in town, her extreme looks have had her admired by Carter Hedison and distracted Russell Coleman, Danny Featherstone, Ty Hedison, David Truman and Daniel Waverly. Rachel Hedison swatted at Dr. Paul Kirkwood for ogling her, and Dr. Angela Harker previously chuckled behind Paul's back for admiring her. Ted Shaw said he knew the girl's mother.

In 1995, the Girl was finally heard speaking as she went door to door campaigning for Sabrina Collins's run for mayor. At Collins's victory party, she was identified as the little sister of Bobbi Pierce as Russell Coleman tried asking her out.
Santa Rosita

**Santa Rosita** is a coastal city and port located south of Long Beach, California with which it shares its north and eastern borders. It is often considered a suburb of Long Beach despite having its own police department and city hall; both cities being considered part of the Greater Los Angeles area.
Mickey Schwartz

**Michael "Mickey" Schwartz** is an American television writer, director and producer best known for the TV series "Beyond Your Dreams."

Schwartz was born into a Jewish family in Chicago, Illinois, the son of theater owner Heinrich "Henry" Schwartz and Cynthia Schwartz. One of seven children, Schwartz and his parents relocated to Los Angeles when he was four months old. Though spending his childhood in California, Schwartz still refers to Chicago as his hometown and is a big fan of the Chicago White Sox baseball team.

Inspired by the comedy teams of the 30s, 40s and 50s, Schwartz began his film career working as a mailboy at 20th Century Fox, later working as a "go-fer" and then as an assistant director during the filming of "Carly and the Chocolate River Factory" starring child actress Laura Claybourne in her big screen debut, replacing the film's original assistant director, who became ill and was sent home. During that time, Schwartz became acquainted with actors Richard Crosby and Peter Vincent, both of whom would later work in his films. Following "Carly and the Chocolate River Factory," Schwartz worked on several films that were shot in Canada including "Once Upon a Time in the Klondike," "The Town That Dreaded Midnight" with Leigh Costello and "The Haunting of Chaney Mansion" with Alex Lambert, Hector Whelchel and Jennifer Hood.

Schwartz stayed in Canada for a while working as an assistant director on television. On a visit to New York City in 1981, he became friends with filmmaker Jack Gable on the set of *Edge Of Tomorrow*. The two collaborated on several projects afterward and when he began developing Beyond Our Dreams in the 90s, he hired Mickey to be his director and head writer. During the series, Schwartz ran interference between Jack and Lou and Arlene Sherwood trying to control the creative content of the series, but he also found himself frustrated by Jack's unrequited infatuation with Laura Claybourne, now a beautiful leading lady with an impressive acting career.

After the series ended, Schwartz continued to turn out comedies, such as "An American Werewolf in Toronto," "Tennessee Fried Film" and "Trading Spaces." It was during the making of "Three Comrades" that he learned about the passing of Jack Gable and was hired to finish Beyond Our Dreams:Return To Ashford Falls a reunion movie bringing back the cast the from the series.

In recent years, Schwartz has been working almost entirely on television producing TV shows, such as "So Random," "McKenzie Falls," "Sonny," "Zombie High" and "Jungle Joanie." In 2000, he returned to Ashford Falls with Sisters, a series about the daughters of Mayor Lionel Creekmore sharing a house that although wasn't a huge success, it did make it to three seasons. He also developed Twilight, which ran from 2003 to 2008 and focused on the character Melissa Strickland's pursuit as a paranormal researcher, resembling "X-Files" and "Supernatural."

Schwartz has been married for twelve years to Deborah Crosby, the daughter of Richard Crosby, an interior decorator. They have three daughters, Samantha, Sabrina and Tabitha.
James A. Watson

**James A. Watson** is an American television character actor possibly best known for his appearances on episodic television roles through the 70s and 80s; he is possibly best known for his appearances in the TV series, "Quincy, M.E."

Not much is known about his early life. He was born James Albert Watson on November 21, 1945 possibly in California, later attending the University of Redlands in Redlands, California and London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. He later joined a major repertory theater company, later performing with major theater companies such as "The American Conservatory Theater" in San Francisco and "The Mark Taper Forum" in Los Angeles. His first television role was in "The Virginian," followed by roles in "Medical Center," "Ghost Story," "Cannon" and "The Mod Squad" along with roles in the movies "Halls Of Anger" with Calvin Lockhart and Jeff Bridges, "The Old Man Who Cried Wolf" with Edward G. Robinson, Martin Balsam and Edward Asner, "The Last Child" with Michael Cole and Edward Asner again, "The Organization" with Sidney Poitier and "The Strangers in 7A" with Andy Griffith and Ida Lupino. Most of his career was on television, starring in iconic TV shows as "Love, American Style," "Mannix," "Wonder Woman," "Kojak," "The Rockford Files," "Police Woman" and "Emergency." Through the Eighties, he also appeared on "Gimme a Break," "The Love Boat," "Trapper John, M.D.," Diff'rent Strokes," "Hill Street Blues," "Dallas," "Matlock" and "Amen," mostly as characters in authority such as police officers, lawyers, judges and priests. His film roles included "Goldengirl," "Backstairs at the White House" and "Airplane II: The Sequel" with Peter Graves, Robert Hayes and William Shatner. He has been nominated for an NAACP Image Award and he has received a variety of honor. His co-stars have included such talents as Edward G. Robinson, Michael Crichton, Mary Tyler Moore, Jamie Foxx, Tom Selleck, Candice Bergen, Red Fox, Rob Reiner, James Coburn, Jeff Bridges and Sidney Poitier.

Watson has since been producing and directing his own theater productions, winning an Emmy nomination consideration, and appearing in "The Mark Taper Forum" with Gordon Davidson. His stage work includes "Death of A Salesman" at South Coast Repertory Theater and August Wilson's "Jitney" at The South Coast Repertory Theater and The Pasadena Playhouse to superlative reviews and recognition. He has also done commercials, appearing as a cop in a Honda Accord commercial in 2000. His most recent stage work was in "Blue Print To Freedom: An Ode To Byard Rustin," directed by Phylicia Rashad at the La Jolla Playhouse in 2014.
Monica Keena

**Monica Keena** is an American actress and model best known for the films "Snow White: A Tale of Terror" and "Jason vs. Freddie."

Keena was born in Brooklyn, New York on May 25, 1979 and raised in Brooklyn, New York City, the daughter of William Keena, a financial sales manager, and Mary Keena, a nurse. She also has an older sister named Samantha. She attended Saint Ann's School, a progressive private school in Brooklyn Heights.

At the age of thirteen, Monica auditioned for acceptance into LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts, choosing the drama department as her preference. She was accepted in both the dramatic and the vocal arts departments. Soon after starting her classes at LaGuardia, Keena played in her first role in the short film, "Burning Love." Through the 90s, she made further appearances in the movie industry, making her film debut in "While You Were Sleeping," followed by a supporting role in "The Devil's Advocate" and a lead role in "Snow White: A Tale of Terror."

Keena also portrayed Bertha in a stage reading of Strindberg's "The Father," later appearing in numerous television and movie projects, such as the TBS Original Movie "First Daughter," "Crime and Punishment in Suburbia," "While You Were Sleeping," "The Simian Line and Lynn Redgrave" and "Bad Girls From Valley High." In 2003, she played the heroine in the cult horror flick, "Freddy vs. Jason." In 2006, she starred in "Left in Darkness," "Brooklyn Rules" and the 2009 remake of "Night of the Demons." During the filming of "Night of the Demons," she became romantically involved with Edward Furlong, a relationship that turned abusive and later became estranged.

She has also worked in television, starring on the short-lived comedy "Undeclared," "Dawson's Creek,""Entourage," "Law & Order," "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," "Homicide: Life on the Street," "Feds" and "Grey's Anatomy."

In 2017, she has worked on the films "The Ghost and The Whale," "Manson Girls" and "Karma."
Winchester Cathedral

**Winchester Cathedral** is an abandoned Catholic monastery in the former community of Mill City, now part of the city of Winchester, north of Ashford Falls. It was built in the Early 1820s by monks living apart from town from bricks and masonry from the local limestone quarries later acquired by Gage Winchester. Seemingly abandoned by the 1920s, the grounds near the old structure are now owned by the Winchester Riding Club and are now known as the "Winchester Cathedral," a name used by the riding club members, such as Rachel Hedison.
According to legend, the old monastery is haunted by grey hooded figures wandering through the trees at night.
Zach Grenier

**Zach Grenier** is an American film, television and stage actor, probably best known for his roles in Fight Club (1999), The Good Wife (2009) and Deadwood (2004).

Grenier was born February 12, 1954 in Englewood, New Jersey with Polish descent, later moving to Ann Arbor, Michigan where he attended Pioneer High School. Not much is known about his early career, but his earliest film roles include the movies "Kenny," "Radio Days" and "Working Girl" with roles in the TV shows "Kate and Allie," "Tattinger's" and "The Equalizer," "Miami Vice" and "Golden Girls," followed by the movies Problem Child 2," Delirious, "Cliffhanger" and "The Man Without a Face." He was a regular cast member on the short-lived series "C-16: FBI" from 1997 to 1998 and a recurring role in "24" with Kiefer Sutherland.

His film roles include appearances in "Swordfish," "Pulse," "Zodiac," "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" and "J. Edgar" with Leonardo DiCaprio. In 2009, he appeared on Broadway opposite Jane Fonda in "33 Variations," earning him a Tony Award nomination.

His TV appearances mostly featured him in positions of authority in crime procedurals, including the TV shows "JAG," "Enterprise," Crossing Jordan," Deadwood," "CSI: NY," "Medium," "Boston Legal," "CSI: Miami," "Numb3rs," "Cold Case,"CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" and "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit." In 2010, he was cast on the television series, "The Good Wife," as David Lee, a senior attorney, a role that soon became part of the recurring ensemble. He was promoted to series regular at the start of the fifth season in September 2013.
Manoo

*"Could be another poacher..." - Manoo*

**Manoo Tefekee** is an African conservationist and biologist living near the Moloku Reservation in Zambia. He is also the teacher and mentor of Janet DuBois.

Born in Nigeria in 1955, Manoo is the son of a Hausa chieftain and the great-grandson of a Hausa shaman. In his teenage years, he traveled to the United States with his relatives and learned medicine by studying in Chicago, also taking classes in conservationism and entomology. He returned to Africa in 1980 and practiced as a doctor in both his native Nigeria as well as in Gambia, Sudan and Tanzania.

In 1985, Manoo was living in Zambia as a conservationist when he started mentoring a few students studying the local ant mounds, among them Janet DuBois, the sole female of the group. As her teacher, he befriended her and helped her develop her respect for ants. He also acted as her father figure, counseling her in her local social interactions and warning her of a local poacher named Randall Ewing.

In 1991, with the death of her father, Janet left Manoo to return home to the United States to settle her father's estate, leaving in the middle of research for her doctorate. A month later, Manoo was surprised one night to see Janet mysteriously and inexplicably returning back to the village. The following day, Janet received a message reportedly from Carter Hedison asking her to return to see him in Ashford Falls. It took a year until she returned and picked up her studies once more.
Sisters

**Sisters** is an American television sitcom, starring Hope Fairfield and Gina Sterling as Tricia Creekmore-Bates and Lisa Creekmore. Tricia is a career-minded wife and mother whose life is disrupted when her sister, Lisa, comes home. Lisa is a former party-planner whose business is bankrupted by a politician, who didn't pay his bill, leading her to move in with Tricia and her family in the fictional suburban town of Ashford Falls, New York, the setting of the TV drama, Beyond Our Dreams. As a result, several characters from the previous series tended to cross over, such as Janet DuBois, Melissa Strickland, Blake Hedison and the sisters' parents, Lionel Creekmore and Jacqueline Creekmore. Actress Beverly Summer was added in the recurring role as the older sister.

The show premiered September 26, 2000 and ended March 2, 2003 on a cliff-hanger on Tricia and Jack, her husband, facing an inevitable divorce. Although the show was not renewed for a fourth season, it was resolved in an episode in Twilight revealing that Lisa had finally moved out to save her sister's marriage.

## Cast

* Patricia "Tricia" Creekmore - Hope Fairfield
* Lisa Creekmore - Gina Sterling
* Jack Bates - Steve Keller
* Megan Bates - Jennifer Rhodes
* Hillary Bates - Lacey Gilmore
* Justin Bates - Bobby Hall
Winchester Lake

**Winchester Lake** is a large alpine freshwater lake at the tip of the Adirondack Mountain in Northern New York. Stretching across the Warren County and Essex County line, it stretches 12 miles long and covers 3940 acres along Highway 191 between Ashford Falls and Winchester with depths of 250 to 275 feet. The south end is represented by Ashford Falls Scenic Lookout.

The lake is a local tourist attraction home to winter sports, summer outdoor recreation and scenery enjoyed throughout the year. Known to partially freeze over in the winter, it is home to trout and local catfish. Gage Winchester had a private boat dock here during the Fifties and Sixties for fishing and family gatherings.

In 1986, it was discovered that there was a discrepancy in the location of the county line on the west and east shores of the lake. When this error was finally rectified, it surrendered more than 500 acres of county area to Essex County which included the abandoned Winchester Cathedral and two-thirds of the riding trails owned by the Ashford Falls Riding Stables.

In 1990, William Samuelson had been hired to write a history of Ashford Falls. During his research, Rachel Hedison informed him that the woodland on the west side were supposedly haunted by Native Americans and Irish laborers from the nearby limestone quarries.

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Hannah Valesic

*"You break it, you've bought it." - Hannah Valesic*

**Hannah Valesic** is the owner and proprietor of "Oddities & Ends" in Lakeville, New York, She is also a practicing Wiccan and a psychic.

Not much is known about Hannah's past. She claims she was born in Germany, but Melissa Strickland has noted several times when she has slipped several times into a Chicago accent. She has confessed to have once worked as an actress, leading Russell Coleman to have accused her to have once been a porn star known as Hallie Valley, a claim she vehemently denies.

As a psychic, Valesic has enjoyed a minor celebrity status around Ashford Falls and Winchester, often getting invited to parties at the Hedison Mansion and Ashford Arms Hotel to entertain guests with her psychic abilities. However, most of her fortune comes from her bookstore in Lakeville where she also sells New Age relics, good luck charms and reported love spells. She also spends some time exploring Haverstraw Canyon to "commune with nature" where she has encountered Rachel Hedison, Len Snedeker, Dr. Paul Kirkwood, Bobbi Pierce and Russell Coleman.

Valesic has been approached several times to lend her psychic impressions to objects presented to her by Melissa Strickland, ending up with items that once belonged to Johnathan Trout, Nancy Archer and Carter Hedison. She also accompanied Strickland and Jenny Turbeville in an exploration of the Trout Mansion in Wyckoff.