The Hill News

I am absorbed in nostalgia. A habitual obituary reader, my eye caught one today that I might have missed, so remote was the name, Fred Foy. The 89-year-old Foy was the voice of the Lone Ranger on radio in the 1930s, when I was a boy and radio was THE medium of entertainment. His stentorian voice intoning, "A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty, ‘Hi-yo Silver, away!’ ” each night took my young imagination to exciting places beyond my personal world in small-town New Jersey. Foy led listeners to places where television never could take its viewers because one watching isn’t using the same muscles of imagination required for radio.

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