![]() Over the past thirteen years, MANC has brought over 100 celebrities to Maryland including Patty Duke, Davy Jones, Shirley Jones, Robert Wagner, Stefanie Powers, Robert Conrad, Lee Majors, Robert Fuller, the cast of Lost in Space, Tony Dow ( Leave it to Beaver), David Hedison ( The Fly), Roy Thinnes ( The Invaders) and many others. Instead of actors from the Marvel Cinematic Universe or popular Netflix programs, the celebrity guests are more of appeal to a fan base over the age of 50. But closer examination reveals a variation-on-a-theme. Dawn Wells (GILLIGAN’S ISLAND) poses with a fan at the Nostalgia Con.įrom the outset, an attendee would not consider the Nostalgia Con too much different from Comic Cons, science-fiction and horror conventions. The convention itself is something altogether different. The celebrities at MANC, however, are not the same that attend those heavily-publicized Comic Cons. For three days every year in September, Hollywood celebrities are flown into Maryland to meet and greet fans, answer questions, pose for photos and sign autographs. That is why the staff of the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention (MANC) provides people the opportunity to meet their childhood heroes. ![]() ![]() Revisiting cherished memories from drive-in experiences to classic television programs of the 1950s and 1960s provide feelings of social connectedness. Once viewed as a disease, nostalgia is now considered to be an important resource.
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