Back when we and our partners Steve & Laurie Craw were closing down our newspaper in 1977, we evidently asked our mutual friend Mike Burton to store our sign in one his barns. He recently uncovered it and offered it to me. This relic will hang on a wall of our shed to remind us of those two sleepless years of youthful idealism, tilting at assorted windmills. A few Romans may be able to pair this image with one stored deep in their memories from a drive down Maple Street in the seventies.
As we were planning for our new weekly newspaper in 1975, with the bicentennial of the nation around the corner, we thought we'd capitalize on the interest in history, to use the name "Broadside", after those news sheets of the late 1700s.
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