On the Road in Middle America

Linda

These photos are reproduced courtesy of Carol Serling and Linda Jay Geldens.

Linda's dad, Verne Jay, and Rod Serling were writers on the continuity staff of WLW, the NBC affiliate in Cincinnati, in 1950. These pictures were taken during a vacation that the Serlings and Linda Jay and her parents took at Brown County State Park in Indiana in 1950.

Rod Serling and Verne Jay collaborated on a murder mystery, "A Walk in the Night," that aired nationally on the "Philip Morris TV Playhouse" in 1954. It was the only time Serling had a co-author.

Carol and Rod sitting beside a tree next to a river; Rod is wearing his paratrooper boots.	Rod holding a quintessentially nerdy eleven-year-old (Linda Jay) up in the air.	Rod and Verne Jay playing a very low-tech, low-overhead game, "Who can throw the most rocks into the barrel?"
Rod in the background, with Helen Jay (wife of writer Verne Jay, mother of Linda Jay) at Brown County State Park in Indiana, 1950	Verne Jay, continuity writer at NBC affiliate WLW Radio-TV in Cincinnati; Rod Serling was on-staff as a continuity writer at the same time.