You know what Else?
Maybe ‘fascinated’ is not the correct word for what I feel when reading these old newspapers… maybe nostalgia or maybe I just love old newspapers and magazines. I have a collection of Life magazines from the 1940’s price 10c. This copy of The Enterprise from 95 years ago, for instance, quoting the Saranac Lake Chief of Police Frank E. Sheldon about the weather on the day of the parade of the first Winter Carnival in 1898. For me it was like talking to him. I think it is so sad that newspapers are disappearing at an alarming rate. Will there be any method for one to describe 95 years from now what was happening here in 2020? Will anyone care? Will someone still have a video on their cell phone, a snippet of some television story or perhaps a search of computer archives to tell the story? I doubt it.