I added two photos to my online memorial for Craig Slocum, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=5307782. They were taken at a Tree of Memory, Tree Lighting Service on December 14, 2000 in Las Vegas, Nevada. I payed tribute to him by decorating the special Tree of Memory with an ornament bearing his name. You have to click on the two photos to read the captions for them. A nice memory for the Christmas season!

Thanks Midnite! I will remember that. I modified my post.

Happy Thanksgiving cousins! Thanks for the card dom! My little girl's father from California is taking us out for Thanksgiving dinner at his favorite restaurant. I don't cook every year. Last year, there was too much food leftover for my daughter and I. It's hard to cook for just two people. Her dad was supposed to come over and he didn't. His other daughter and grandchildren live in Las Vegas too. On holidays, our daughter wants him to be here, and his other family wants him to be there. It creates a problem. He says we will have an early dinner, then later on he'll go to their house. I wouldn't see him at all except my daughter wants to see him, and I don't want to be alone on the holidays.     

I have updated my Craig Slocum Acting Credits page, http://rusty_slocum.tripod.com/credits.htm. Ryan's Hope has been added to his list of Television credits, and his Broadway theatre credits have also been added. The page includes other links to Cheryl's Craig Slocum Website, and his virtual grave site I created for him. Please leave flowers and a note in his memory. I will be updating the online memorial in December. Enjoy! 

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Congratulations on your weight loss success Annie, especially during this time of year! I love sweets, Coke, and Ginger Ale too much, but at least I maintain my heavy weight champion weight of 217 pounds and it never gets any worse than that. I do a lot of walking, that helps. Looks are not important to me, it all goes to the grave someday, but to be healthy is important, so maybe I will work on it next year. My daughter just came over to me, offering me a lick of her Charms Blow Pop, a grape flavored lollipop with bubble gum inside, leftover Halloween candy. Hard for Moms to lose weight.     

My Mom is here visiting my daughter and I this week, and she brought some old pics with her. Here I am with my brothers in 1968, that's what I looked like when I watched Dark Shadows back then! I used to watch it with the brother behind me, I don't think my oldest brother ever got into it like we did. I just thought I would share a memory from DS days.

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Congrats on your newest DS collectable Cheryl!! The Barnabas costume is indeed one of the more rare pieces of memorabilia associated with the show.

Thanks Bobubas! It's great that you also acquired a Barnabas costume then later made a fortune off of it! The box my costume is in is different. It has super heroes on it and says Ben Cooper Saturday's Heroes Favorite TV Character Costume, Barnabas, Dan Curtis Prod., Inc. As Seen On TV. The price is written on the box in black marker, $1.98 (a real blue light special, lol!)

I have a couple of those adult size shirts of the costume that you mentioned. One is like the T-Shirt you're wearing in the photos, the other is a long sleeve Sweat Shirt. It says on both of them in small print, Dan Curtis Productions 1968 Replica 1996.

I went to the 2000 Collins Association Halloween party at the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion in Norwalk, Conn. I'm glad I got there at least once. The Barnabas costume I have doesn't glow in the dark anymore, but the T-Shirt and Sweat Shirt do. That white screening glow paint for $100.00 is still working, good job, lol!

Thanks for sharing your photos! Your costume was in better condition than the one I have. The mask is in pretty good condition, but the apron is torn in several places. Can't be too choosy with an item so rare.

I met Sharon Smyth at the Dark Shadows Festival 1999 in New York. I have an unopened record album of Charles Randolph Grean. It has the original hit Quentin's Theme, also, #1 At The "Blue Whale", Serenade To Summertime, On The Trail, La Golandrina, Forgotten Dreams, The Perfect Song, Sunset, Shadows Of The Night, Manolito, and Deep Purple.

I remember hearing Quentin's Theme on the radio when I was a little girl during Dark Shadows original run. I was younger than my little girl then! My Mom just arrived today from CA, is here visiting for a week. Her and my daughter were playing the Barnabas Collins Dark Shadows Game earlier. They play that every time my Mom comes over. I have another game in my DS collection, it has the fangs with it, gave my daughter the one without the fangs, lol!