Newspapers hanging up to dry
This week took us to the Eastern Star Museum in Grahamstown. It's the centre and origin of much of South Africa's printing history, with regards to the press.
It was quite interesting: it definitely gave me a renewed appreciation for computers. Thank goodness we have proper printers now! Setting up each individual letter in the forms was just far too finicky. I can't imagine having to do full sheets for the real newspapers, and the letters are even smaller! What a dirty job as well...
Because we love to cut loads of copies of newspaper manually
I suppose it was somewhat beneficial for us to visit this place. It was interesting to see where we, as journalists, came from, however, I don't think that it is necessarily imperative to us being good journalists.
I did find myself wondering, though, why Grahamstown was so important and at the forefront of so many social and economic advances, yet we find ourselves still stuck in almost the same kind of time! We seem to come up with all these amazing companies or discoveries or progressions, only to have them passed on to some bigger and better place, not advancing this town nearly as much as the other city (often Johannesburg) we had just advantaged.
Finicky, finicky, all the time
Now, it is time for me to make a postcard. To no one in particular... Using on of the pictures you see in this blog post. Fun times!!! :D
But no one even reads backwards anymore, anyway!
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