![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Dateline: May 3, 2007
Dec. 16th, 2007 07:13 pmIn the midst of a large sewing/craft project today (perhaps more on that later; it's a commissioned christmas gift. aieee! why oh why???) I came across a newspaper I had set aside for the purposes of commenting on it here....and then I never did. So I shall do it now.
It is the (then very new) free weekly in my town, the Carrboro Citizen. (this being the modern era, the paper starts right out with a solid web presence as well as traditional print.) I don't often remember to pick it up lately (I should just toss some support their way and buy a delivery subscription), but I always enjoy it when I do.
Anyway, the May 3 edition commemorated Town Day, and included a longish literary work (a fictionalized account of the founding of the town -- originally called Venable (!) -- in 1911), and a reprinting of the entire current Charter of the Town of Carrboro (which ran to 4 full pages, if I remember).
Both of those things are pretty cool, in a dedicated small-town newspaper sort of way. But the thing that made me want to write about it here was the solitary item in the "Corrections" box on the inside front page:
"Much to our great dismay, we incorrectly identified the author of The Picture of Dorian Gray. It was, of course, Oscar Wilde."
Sadly, I had not read the issue that instigated the correction. (and I love the "of course" they have stuck in there. we are a mill town glued onto the side of a college town, after all.)
ETA: after posting I decided to go ahead an subscibe -- which you can do for $26 per year, via PayPal. I'm not sure why this tickles me, but it does. (see tag below)
It is the (then very new) free weekly in my town, the Carrboro Citizen. (this being the modern era, the paper starts right out with a solid web presence as well as traditional print.) I don't often remember to pick it up lately (I should just toss some support their way and buy a delivery subscription), but I always enjoy it when I do.
Anyway, the May 3 edition commemorated Town Day, and included a longish literary work (a fictionalized account of the founding of the town -- originally called Venable (!) -- in 1911), and a reprinting of the entire current Charter of the Town of Carrboro (which ran to 4 full pages, if I remember).
Both of those things are pretty cool, in a dedicated small-town newspaper sort of way. But the thing that made me want to write about it here was the solitary item in the "Corrections" box on the inside front page:
"Much to our great dismay, we incorrectly identified the author of The Picture of Dorian Gray. It was, of course, Oscar Wilde."
Sadly, I had not read the issue that instigated the correction. (and I love the "of course" they have stuck in there. we are a mill town glued onto the side of a college town, after all.)
ETA: after posting I decided to go ahead an subscibe -- which you can do for $26 per year, via PayPal. I'm not sure why this tickles me, but it does. (see tag below)
