February 3, 2021
Richard C. Johnston Sr. (Dick) passed peacefully surrounded by family at Beebe Healthcare in Lewes Monday, Feb. 1, 2021.
Richard was born at home in Burnham, Pa., to Avril Creighton and F. Lloyd Bay. At a young age, his mother remarried and he was adopted by James Johnston. Dick grew up in Flushing, Queens, N.Y. In 1956 he married his high school sweetheart, Patricia Ann Trapp. While raising a young family, he worked full time and attended Pace University in the evenings, graduating in 1964.
Mr. Johnston worked most of his career in the textile industry for West Point Pepperell, living and working in Ohio and North Carolina. In 1967 he was promoted to a senior executive position in NYC and moved the family to Manalapan, N.J., where they resided until 1990. Dick was dedicated to his family and wife Pat; they were inseparable. While living in New Jersey, Dick coached recreation basketball and was a Eucharistic minister and lector at St. Gabriel’s Pa
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Legacies). Yet, somehow, not nearly enough people are talking about one of the best: The CW’s
Nancy Drew, which manages to combine elements from all these subgenres into a sparkling, scary whole that somehow manages to feel entirely brand new.
Nancy Drew is an adaptation of Carolyn Keene’s beloved novels in only the loosest sense of the term. It stars an aged-up version of the eponymous sleuthing heroine and packs enough Easter eggs to delight anyone who grew up reading the books. But this show is very much its own thing; it blazes a new path forward even as it acknowledges its literary roots. As season two begins, here are four reasons you should give this new take on the famous sleuth a try.
Nancy Drew at 90: How the girl sleuth became an unintentional feminist
Ninety years after the first Nancy Drew books were published, the girl sleuth is as popular as ever. We take a look at how Nancy Drew came to be and how she became an unintended feminist role model for generations of women.
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The first book in the Nancy Drew series, The Secret of the Old Clock, was published in April 1930.(Penguin Random House)
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Nancy Drew continues the CW’s recent assault upon my childhood. Much like the reboots
Riverdale (2017–present),
The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018–present, moving from the CW to Netflix), and
Katy Keene (2020–present), the show shares very little with its original texts. While names are retained and the overall focus remains that of a female detective solving mysteries in her fictional home town, by and large it’s actually helpful if the viewer knows nothing about the original series or any of its various reboots through the years. While the show has a variety of Easter egg references with examples including the local high school being named Keene High (for Carolyn Keene), an episode titled “Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase” intended to hearken a nostalgic viewer to the second Nancy Drew book written in the 1930s, and a contemporary visual reference to the book cover for “The Secret in the Old Attic” the characters are largely unreco