March 8, in the mid-1950s:
It snows this evening in Hoosac, Minnesota, according to The Lamp from the Warlock's Tomb (1988). After which, Anthony Monday begins fretting about how Miss Eells and her brother, Emerson, will get up to Stillwater "when the moon is full in March" to deal with the mysterious Mrs. G. Warmish and her even stranger Astaroth ceremony.
March 8, 1959:
The night Bellairs made his television debut. Bellairs and three other students represented Notre Dame on the G.E. College Bowl program. In a battle of the wits with Georgetown University, these other Four Horsemen from Notre Dame all buzzed in their answers, but Bellairs made the night memorable. The moderator offered bonus points for every line of Chaucer's Prologue to the Canterbury Tales the team could quote in Middle English. "That was like throwing a lamb chop to a wolf," Al Myers, Bellairs's long-time college friend, said. "He used to be able to empty rooms with that very recitation."
March 8, 1991
Bellairs dies at his home in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He was 53.
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