Posted on 11/18/2003 10:25:45 AM PST by steppenwolffe
Edited on 04/22/2004 12:37:52 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
TERRE HAUTE, Ind.
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You have to survi-, er, pass the initiation ritual in Las Vegas first.
Wait until Flaggster the walkin' dude checks in here himself. Maybe you two can arrange something directly.
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I worked for the Chicago Daily News from 1970 until they shut the doors in 1978. I did some magazine and other work for a while, then went down to Knox County to work for Larry Hiatt's chain of papers, which included dailies in Princeton and Bicknell, plus one in Mt Carmel Illinois, and several weeklies as well, including the ones in Monroe City, Bloomfield, Linton and a couple of other locales.
The Morning Evansville Courier was probably more competition to our AM flagship daily than the more local evening competition was; among other things, we had a rep for including story details they had sometimes left out.
I ended up with a paper in St Louis for a while, then relocated to Memphis, where I've covered the Mid-South for a couple of magazines and online news outfits, plus consulting on story projects for investigative reporters and editors and a researcher or two.
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Experienced? Yes, I have. -Not necessarily stoned.
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By their works ye shall know them.
--Matthew, 7:16
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This is the latitude where the pronounciation of "sodie-pop" begins.
I thought we were better than the French when dealing with anti-Semitism.
In the same week, both a French school and an American museum are gutted by fire, because those buildings were related to Jewish education and art.
Sad.
Yep, thereabouts. I'm of course familiar with Belleville from my time working the St Louis downstate area for the Chicago Daily News and for the year or so I was with the short-lived St Louis Sun, as well as my associations with Scott Air Force Base and the St Louis-area raiolroads' Gateway Yard facility.
But I go back a bit before that, too: I was born in Urbana when my dad was an Illini engineering student at the UofI, and went to a Catholic grade school in Lawrenceville on the Indiana state line across from St Louis on Illinois 50 after our family returned from Cuba just before the Castro takeover, dad having worked at the Santa Clara CalTex/Texaco refinery there. The Lawrenceville *Indian Plant* was at the timer Texaco's third largest producer, though we'd moved nearer the town of Bridgeport by the time I started high school.
My first time as a newspaperman was as a photographer, covering spot news downstate from the Cairo-St. Louis-Lawrenceville triangle, then I later moved up to the Chicago area [McCook] and Milwaukee while working photo jobs for the Daily Noise and later paycheck providers. I spent a little time as a railroader as well, working for the C&EI, The Big Four/NYC and Illinois Central in Illinois, and the Southern and Pennsylvania railroads in Indiana.
I spent nearly as much time in Indiana, or maybe a little more, and the *sodie-pop* flows there too. But if you spill any on yourself, a warshrag will take care of it.
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I found a mighty pretty little corner of the Granite State on the river at Conway that's within my budget- barely, and I've had some pretty good times at Laconia. My kid's interested both in the NH porcupine movement and in similar efforts in Wyoming, where we've got some family land. But it looks good. And there sure are some mighty nice folks there for new neighbors; I can't tell you how many nice NH folks have offered me advice and assistance.
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