How It Was

Well, that was interesting! A short vacation in Jerome— followed by blurred vision preparing for and recovering from cataract surgery— has kept me off the keyboard.

Jerome is a fascinating Arizona ghost town populated by about 400 living ghosts. Old hippies don’t die, or fade away, they move to Jerome and open gift shops and artists’ studios. Who’s to say they’re out of step with the rest of us? Certainly not I.

If you want spectral ghosts, you can find those there, too. The Jerome Grand Hotel, which is located in what was once the hospital, is supposed to be haunted; stayed there twice…never saw a ghost.

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We had breakfast at the Cup Cafe in the Hotel Congress the morning we left. That was the day the announcement of the funding for our streetcar line was announced  and street traffic was seriously disrupted.

I really wonder how Tucson’s drivers are going to take to the “nuisance” of sharing road space with the new streetcars.

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Jim Hopkins has relaunched his Gannett Blog, which he runs along with  blogs on the NY Times and News Corp. I’ve posted links in my blogroll. If you’re interested in the state of American journalism as commented on by (still) working journalists you might want to look at these. http://www.gannettblog.blogspot.com/

As always, read with a critical eye. Most commentators have a  dog in journalism’s current fight for survival. Still…good stuff.