Hope Springs Eternal
Description
The tragic legend of Edgar Pennington, who vanished from the fishing village of Mystic Point on his honeymoon, is related by Alistair Hodge, a folklore scholar. Despite the doubts of a fisherman and a constable, Alistair believes Edgar has traveled back to 1692, when the village was a Puritan settlement.
Just two weeks after his marriage, back in 1942, Edgar Pennington disappeared from a deserted New England beach during the few minutes his wife, Alice, went back to their house to give some instructions to their servant. Because they were so deeply in love, Alice cannot believe Edgar won’t return, despite the local constable’s feeling he committed suicide and a U.S. government agent’s claim he was a German spy taken aboard a U-boat. For 35 years she has waited, certain he’ll be back at any moment.
Folklore expert Alistair Hodge tells the sad story of Edgar Pennington, who disappeared from the fishing town of Mystic Point during his honeymoon. Even though a fisherman and a police officer don't believe it, Alistair thinks Edgar went back in time to 1692, when the town was a Puritan community.
CBS Radio Mystery Theater is a radio drama series created by Himan Brown that was broadcast on CBS Radio Network affiliates from 1974 to 1982, and later in the early 2000s was repeated by the NPR satellite feed. In New York City it was not aired by the then all-news WCBS but by its originating station, WOR, which produced and announced it as simply Radio Mystery Theater.
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