dear WORT.
happy 45th!
many thanks for the invitation to throw a few words into the virtual gathering. here’s a collection of WORT memory-jogger photos, starting off with a few pages from early program guides, that tell a lot of the story of the early days. clicking on the newsletter-page photos brings up bigger versions.
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here’s Numero Uno – volume 1 number 1. my writing style in those days was a completely-hopeless attempt, by an illiterate geek, to emulate my hero Lorenzo Milam. Milam was guiding light for a gaggle of us who started stations all over the country — we lost him this year (2020), along with so many others.
a pretty good exposition about why most of us did all that work – it was fun, we made lots of good friends and we kinda took care of each other. Jeff Lange did a lot of the graphics for the first-generation newsletters including everything on this page (i think). Continue reading