I work for a small weekly newspaper in Maine. This journal is an account of what its like working for an independent business who’s mission is to be both a part of a community and to stay out of it.
I attempt to write something once or twice a week with most entries clocking in at about 300 words.
The header image is courtesy of Project Gutenburg. It is taken from a text entitled Wreathes of Friendship by T. S. Arthur and F. C. Woodworth. The full text can be viewed at this link.
From the chapter, The Weekly Newspaper:
When the paper did come, we literally devoured its contents. With us it was an oracle. If the “Courier” affirmed or denied a thing, that was enough for us. It was an end to all debate. How confiding children are! He who has read “Robinson Crusoe” when a boy, finds it almost impossible to regard it a fable when he is a man. The newspaper, that makes its weekly visit to the family circle in the country, leaves the marks of its influence upon the mind and the morals of the child. It forms his tastes and controls his character. How careful, then, should parents be, in the selection of periodicals to be the companions of their children.
