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Laura - 2005-02-15 13:47:56 Pretty miserable when our own city historian is driven away by Heritage, to join the News.* * * * * * * * * * * * Trash Brat - 2005-02-15 13:52:44 Will they be delivered to the Dam trash can?* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2005-02-15 13:53:15 I'm thinking about delivering my copy there, permanently.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2005-02-15 13:56:25 :) Trash Brat, the way you write that comment, somehow it makes you sound--no offense, now, I'm just kidding--like that monster in the trash can on Sesame Street. I have this vision of a similar creature huddling in the dam trash can, eagerly waiting for the next Courier one of these days ("mmmmm, ahhhhh, Courier.") * * * * * * * * * * * * lynne - 2005-02-15 13:57:55 That is kind of a bummer. Ypsilanti isnt that big of a city and really could benefit from the "small town" flavor a charming local paper like the Courier was. I never got around to getting a subscription but I would read it online a lot. Oh well. * * * * * * * * * * * * Eric * - 2005-02-15 13:59:59 Ypsilanti has an official historian and James Mann isn't that person.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2005-02-15 14:01:44 Well, it formerly had quite a range of voices. But now, I'm told that editor Renee and Kathleen Conat are best buddies and that Conat will get all the stories. Any remaining space they can't shove an ad into, they'll probably have stories by "special writers," and I bet you dollars to doughnuts that those "special writers" will be crafting "news" stories that can be economically used in more than one of the regional Heritage chain of papers (Saline, Chelsea, Belleville, &c., &c.).* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2005-02-15 14:02:07 Eric *: Really? Who is it?* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2005-02-15 14:03:31 For heaven's sake, don't leave us all dangling like that--who is it, pray tell? (and, if I can't think offhand who it is, perhaps it means this person hasn't made, shall we say, much of an impression).* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2005-02-15 14:07:42 Eric*, you're not thinking of the city archivist in the historical museum, are you? 'Cause an archivist is not a historian. By any stretch of the imagination. * * * * * * * * * * * * Trash Brat - 2005-02-15 14:08:32 No, I do not live in the garbage can, or at the Dam. I go there to stare at the waterfall and not be bothered by anyone.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2005-02-15 14:09:04 I know. As I said I was only kidding.* * * * * * * * * * * * Eric * - 2005-02-15 14:10:42 The City's charter calls out for a historian. I'll let you do the leg work on this one.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2005-02-15 16:09:55 Actually it turns out Mann won't start on Monday, but in early March. And it will be local history in general--not Ypsi history in particular. No good. If you ask me, we need a good writer to step into the breach and become the regular weekly voice of Ypsi history. Lest it peter out otherwise.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2005-02-15 23:19:54 The only good news is, they say, that the AAN will be paying Mann almost twice as much as what the miserly Heritage eked out for his columns.* * * * * * * * * * * * add your comment: |