Yellow Pig Subscribers – It was recently announced that the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station near Harrisburg PA will be entirely shut down this year. In March 1979, TMI’s Reactor II melted down, causing the worst nuclear accident in the nation’s history. Later that year, my dad, who owned a discotheque in our hometown of Mt. Carmel PA (less than an hour from TMI), got in a Battle-Royale with the lead singer of the band “Blood Sweat and Tears”, David Clayton-Thomas, over whether the band would stick to their agreement to play at his disco “Movements”. Clayton-Thomas was an anti-nuke activist, and vowed his band would come nowhere near Mt. Carmel or TMI.
I’ve created a three-part blog series that chronicles this grudge-match between my dad and Clayton-Thomas, and will be giving a sneak preview to Yellow Pig subscribers (right now there are 22 of you!) before distributing it more widely on social media. I will be releasing it soon. I would value your input, feedback and comments, since I can make adjustments to the format before sending it out more broadly. There are three episodes, which you can either read, or listen to through an audio-recording. They are only 5-7 minutes each so you can read or listen to them all in under 20 minutes. Would love to know what you think!