Hope's Corner: Nothing not to love about newspapers

I purely love newspapers. Always have. I grew up in a newspaper-reading family. Not only were my parents newspaper junkies, but so were my grandparents. And, apparently, so were many of my ancestors. The task of keeping the family history has passed through my mother s line. And I am now this generation s genealogist. Okay, I am the family packrat. My mom and my Aunt June kept newspaper clippings. They also kept my grandma s newspaper clippings, who kept her own mother s newspaper clippings. I have a boatload of family newspaper clippings. And all of them tell stories. Many concern family births and deaths. Others are historical. Mom kept every word written about President Kennedy s assassination. Some are useful. My grandmother always wanted to compile a cookbook, and she had a huge file of recipes which she snipped from various newspapers. My first memories of newspapers were the huge morning editions of the Peoria Journal Star that arrived on the porch. And my paren