Comments on: Column: Limited Edition

By: Bob Martel

Bob Martel — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:28:29 +0000

Tuesday October 21st (four days from now) will be the one month anniversary of this columnist’s first & last work. Will there be any more? Or is this a one shot wonder? When I was a kid delivering the Mamaroneck Daily Times (in NY) when LBJ and then Tricky Dick were President, we had news and op/ed from each columnist at least once a week! Come on Del….
Bob

By: Notional Slurry » links for 2008-09-22

Notional Slurry » links for 2008-09-22 — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:32:02 +0000

[...] The Ann Arbor Chronicle » Column: Limited Edition "From adversity always seems to come a little opportunity. The Ann Arbor Chronicle – “the community newspaper and town hall” – is somewhat the way I remember the news, it just isn’t folded as tightly as my papers. The difference is I didn’t get paid anything to write this column and you didn’t pay anything to read it, so we’re even. I don’t like to owe anybody anything." (tags: social-norms newspapers social-publishing publishing history) [...]

By: David Feldt

David Feldt — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 01:51:22 +0000

I had a paper route also, carrying a canvas shoulder bag up and down East Hill in Ithaca, New York. My fondest memories however were when I was small – going to college town near the Cornell campus with my father every Sunday morning to get the Sunday paper, then sitting down with him on the couch to read the funnies when we got home.

I like the chronicle so far, but its a bit different to picture sharing Sunday comics with a small child on your lap in front of a computer screen. Then again my kids were all raised around computers and we had many shared experiences, so maybe the internet works for building family traditions as well…

By: Mary Morgan

Mary Morgan — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:39:14 +0000

My father delivered the Indianapolis Star in the late 1920s and early ’30s. Growing up, I remember him deftly rolling newspapers into a tight tube to use as tinder in our fireplace. He said he learned to roll them like that so they’d all fit in his carrier bag and be easier to fling – he tried to teach me, but mine inevitably unfurled. He’s forgotten a lot over the years, but I’ll bet he hasn’t lost that newspaper-rolling art.

By: Edward Vielmetti

Edward Vielmetti — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:16:20 +0000

I delivered the Marquette Mining Journal in my neighborhood in the UP in the late 70s. That was a good route (any day you can deliver a paper to a lighthouse is a good day), but the route I liked the best was the short-lived “Sunday Sun” which was all ad-sponsored free delivery so no collections needed.

By: Susan

Susan — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:06:28 +0000

Someone said recently, ‘when local newspapers die, so will democracy.’ But nobody said the paper had to be printed on same.

By: TeacherPatti

TeacherPatti — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:54:45 +0000

I loved this article. It made me wish I’d grown up in a different time/place (70s-80s, typical Detroit suburb).

By: Al Feldt

Al Feldt — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:17:54 +0000

This was a nice piece of nostalgia for me. It was more than 65 years ago when I folded and tightened my last copies of the Buffalo Courier Express. The last route I carried covered downtown which paid better tips than routes in residential areas and there was always someone their with money when it was time to collect. The added advantage was that there were many fewer heavy Sunday papers to deliver than on normal routes.

It takes a little getting used to but the Chronicle has some feeling like a small town paper used to have, except that the newsprint doesn’t rub off on your hand and shirt.