It's been a long time since my byline appeared in the Sun-Chronicle
The last time an article I wrote appeared in the Attleboro Sun-Chronicle, my childhood hometown newspaper, the year was 1974 and the subject matter was a high school football game. I was 17 at the time and convinced beyond argument that sportswriting would be my life’s work.
Shows what you know when you’re 17.
Today the Sun-Chronicle has republished on its Web site yesterday’s Buzzblog post about Brookstone continuing to send its advertising catalogs to my mother, despite the fact that Mom passed away in 1989. The paper cares because the story is set in North Attleboro.
The paper’s editor and high school friend of mine, Mike Kirby, tells me that in addition to being on the Web site the item will also appear in the newspaper’s print edition … the one I delivered on my bicycle back in the day. (Just the other day, coincidentally, my 9-year-old son, Grant, asked if he could get a job delivering papers and I had to break the news to him that children no longer perform such work, at least not where we live. Pity.)
It’s been almost 40 years since I first experienced the thrill of seeing my byline published and 31 since I moved out of my parents’ home in North Attleboro. But I’m going to make sure Dad, who still lives there, snags me a copy of today’s Sun-Chronicle.
Most writers will understand.
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