Sat, 29 Sep 2007
Small-town news in the 21st century
This is the future of reporting - these jounalists know what to do with the internet (they could make their urls a little more friendly, though :-)
Don't miss Pauline Briney's weekly column called Methinks. She's been writing essays and poetry for decades and is one of the best essayists around. She was blogging like Lileks when Lileks was in diapers:
At my age, every day is a present and I intend to make the most of each one. Some of my friends say they hate birthdays and they hate getting older. Not me, I've never been an age that caused me to want to go back, because I've learned that every age has its own compensations. Well, I'm only 83 so I'll let you know more about more birthdays when I get old.
She has the Lileks eye for local history, too:
The Sept. 30, 1966 issue of the Findlay Enterprise included this portion of an advertisement for the Johnston’s supermarket located in Findlay. In the top left picture are Cratous and Rita Benner; in the bottom left picture is Gladys Mowry with an unidentified clerk; and Merle Minor is pictured in the photograph at right. Of interest to current-day shoppers, prices for items on sale included, for example, sirloin steak for 99 cents per pound; Del Monte tuna for 29 cents a flat; Meadow Gold ice cream for 69 cents per one-half gallon container; No. 1 Illinois Jonathan apples for 49 cents for a four-pound bag; and Banquet frozen meat pies, six eight-ounce pies for $1.
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