The Mountain Ear was founded by Jane Golden Reilly and Steve Eastman in May 1976. The award-winning news weekly and lifestyle journal of Mount Washington Valley was sold by Eastman to Salmon Press in March 2005. Its last issue was in December 2014.
Eastman — who died at age 58 from a brain tumor in 2008 — always wanted to publish an annual book called "White Mountain Chronicles." In collaboration with Eastman's widow, Sarah W. Eastman, brother Tom Eastman (assistant editor at The Ear before coming to The Sun in 2007) and former staff writer Karen Cummings, The Conway Daily Sun is publishing some of those stories relating to local history. This story, written by staff writer Gabrielle Griswold, now of Philadelphia, originally appeared in The Ear on Dec. 16, 1999. It has been updated by the Sun, but the original version will appear on a website being created by Sarah Eastman and Cummings.
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