A fascinatng article in today's NYT by historian Ellen Gruber Garvey about "Back Number Budd," whose collection of old newspapers was once said to be the largest in the world. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/20/obituaries/overlooked-no-more-robert-m-budd.html?unlocked_article_code=ve4NG8lqkOvpBJhb58YKYu1HjHOP7Yy1zlFKZEsbs0VWUWmZIARRZCj8Pyown-Y3A48OLQRIbOky4Brsw3O11FduEvkiU0xCdjm8IngUtff2AaYSvtzH6P3Qe_FliJoduZ2spqkikqtHKbQO9iOQTC7Q5UAyfRCem0MPk4WXKA1j1z7Bpg3EsEDyGuh7YhAPqS3eoWQMattr2Flst08ZHB2rTCNszLLGuP7IDoE_LQwZFiy_skdL13VmSZ2sJEdC55tz8OIXEGMy8PuXFElFtlYqTdcEyhZwjN4gpBVjB3hn-f55s0Ll0OTWvyGV-gfx_MiSHDFI5N9cZc-U26DWsxN0kCtk1d6_d9KWrw&smid=url-share #bookhistory #newspapers
@patrickleary Have you read her fantastic book Writing with Scissors? I've had students read some of it for their scrapbook description assignment.