Digging through my stuff has unearthed some gems of nostalgia, including my first-ever published newspaper article. After I graduated UConn in 1992 (magna cum laude in English, bitch! Not that you can tell from the demonstrations of grammar in this blog), I pursued journalism. My first job was with the weekly newspaper The Weston Forum. I’m sure if any of you were living in Weston in 1992, you probably remember well the very moment on Wednesday, June 10 when your eyes came to rest on this piece of earth-shattering news, brought to you courtesy of then brand-new reporter Will Hines:
A magnet for drama, I was, even then. This was front page, mind you.
I actually feel like it’s too easy and also inaccurate to make fun of the small-towniness of small town newspapers. Yeah, we’d have things like barking dogs on page 3, but my editors and peers were truly talented writers, and it was one of my favorite jobs ever. Still, I couldn’t have started my career on a more understated step.
On my iTunes now:
Child Star by The Unicorns from "Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?"
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Aug 26th, 2005 at 4:40 am
“Connecticut Light and Power representatives said they did have any reports from Weston residents of power outages.”
Not.
–Erik "here’s my embarrassing link: http://www.s-t.com/daily/10-97/10-13-97/a02wn019.htm" Tanouye
Aug 26th, 2005 at 10:11 am
I wrote some articles about city council meetings for “the Hamden Chronicle” during a period when I had decided that I didn’t need to return to college. Sadly the Hamden Chronicle doesn’t seem to have a web presence, or if they do, articles are not archived on it. “Storm Causes No Damage” is a hilarious romp compared to what I was reporting on.
Aug 26th, 2005 at 11:10 am
I never even saw that grammatical error until now, 13 years later. How horrible.
The other funny thing about that issue, which you probably can’t make out, is that the top two headlines on that page were switched. They are each on top of the other’s article. It was the editor’s first week as well as mine, and we both were still getting our sea legs.
But really, the executive editor of the Acorn Press (which included something lik 8 weeklies counting The Forum), and the editor/head writer of The Ridgefield Press (the main paper of the chain) — as well as many other people — were truly interesting, genuine people who were great writers. It wasn’t a lot different than hanging out with a bunch of comedians — in all the best ways.