I started working at the North Conway Reporter in October of 1967. That job gave me lunchtime access to the paper’s morgue, where copies from at least as far back as the 1920s still lay piled on the floor. Microfilm was just catching on then, and I may have been pawing through the only complete collection of Conway’s longest-running chronicle.
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