PEOPLE celebrates General Hospital, TV’s longest-running soap: 60 years, 15,000+ episodes and countless loves, trysts and plot twists! This all-new special anniversary edition features interviews with Genie Francis, Maurice Benard and many more cast favorites from Port Charles. Go on the set and behind the scenes in photos that capture the record-breaking show’s biggest events from Dr. Steve Hardy’s first patient in 1963 to Holly Sutton’s

James Owen Hannay was an Irish clergyman who wrote dozens of novels, stories and plays under the pen name "George A. Birmingham." General John Regan is a sharp satirical play about a charming huckster who spearheads a campaign to honor a purported local hero by erecting a statue in his honor in the small Irish village of his birth. The drama hit too close to home when it was first staged in Ireland—locals rioted to protest the perceived