Mail Call: January/February 2007

January/February 2007
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Proving That Good News Does Sell

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A friend of mine, the wife of a farmer, shared the September/October 2006 issue of the new and improved GRIT magazine. We live in the rural area of eastern Lycoming County not far from Williamsport, Pennsylvania (the original home of GRIT). Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Sometime in the last five years or so the PBS station (WPSU) based in State College, Pennsylvania, aired a special titled “Hometown Williamsport,” which covered four of five institutions that are known nationally and internationally. One was GRIT.

During the segment, they interviewed several former employees. Mike Rafferty made the following statement, “Good news doesn’t sell, the GRIT was a good news newspaper telling upbeat stories and articles, but during the Vietnam era the public wanted to hear the guts and gore war stories and the GRIT lost much of its readership.” What a sad commentary. I shared his statement with a large group during a church gathering. My friend heard and offered her copy of (the new) GRIT for my reading pleasure.

 
Jack R. Jones
Hughesville, Pennsylvania
 

Found Us on the Web

I am 53 years old and carried the GRIT in Cottageville, West Virginia, when I was a child. I wondered what had happened to it since I hadn’t seen it in years. Then I found the Web site.

I best remember a feature called “I’m proud of my town” (which once featured Ravenswood, where I live now) and the fact that the Sunday comics were in black and white!

MarC McComas
Ravenswood, West Virginia
 

Thanks, Marc. As we go along, we’ll be increasing the number of features available exclusively on our Web site, so keep checking www.GRIT.com for further developments.  – Editors

 

People After Our Own Hearts

Just received my first issue (September/October) and really enjoyed the “Animal Attraction” (boy, that sounds like us), “Barn Cats,” feed store and alternative gift articles.

The “Animal Attraction” story really hit home with us. We moved to northern Michigan 15 years ago. As purebred city folk from southeast Michigan, we felt overwhelmed by our 23 acres. I can remember my husband and I looking out over our land, shortly after we moved in, saying to each other, “What have we done?!”

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