Rural Living: Farm Animals, Grit Magazine Fans and Childhood Memories

By The Grit Magazine Editors
Published on January 1, 2007
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Raising geese on the homestead.

Read letters about rural living from Grit magazine readers.

Proving That Good News Does Sell

A friend of mine, the wife of a farmer, shared the September/October 2006 issue of the new and improved Grit magazine about rural living. We live in the rural area of eastern Lycoming County not far from Williamsport, Pennsylvania. 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. “Good news doesn’t sell, there 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 newspaper 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 magazine for my reading pleasure.

— Jack R. Jones
Hughesville, Pennsylvania

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