by Bob Hunter | Jun 5, 2024 | Uncategorized, American history, Journalism, Literature
Mark Twain visited Bermuda on the wooden steamer SS Quaker City in 1867 with 73 other travelers. It was at the end of a five-month cruise to Europe and the Holy Land. A San Francisco newspaper furnished his ticket in return for a regular series of travel stories about...
by Bob Hunter | Oct 13, 2021 | Journalism
Dick Fenlon’s death won’t get the notice it deserves this week. That is both sad and understandable. Probably half of today’s working population have never read a newspaper and most of the others have moved on to faster, more exciting (if less reliable) forms of...
by Bob Hunter | Sep 30, 2021 | Journalism
Back in 2017, Columbus Dispatch librarian Julie Fulton approached the Columbus Historical Society to see if it would take hundreds of bound volumes of old Columbus newspapers that the Dispatch wanted out of its printing plant. The danger to the volumes, which took...
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