D'ARCONTE: Everybody's been off to somewhere
Monday, February 8, 2010 2:44 PM EST
I heard from some pretty interesting people in interesting places over the past several weeks.
Who are they? You. Or those of you who brought me newspapers from exotic locales.
Like Janet Kerr of Attleboro. She's recently back from The Subcontinent. "Thought you might enjoy reading some papers I picked up on a recent trip to India," she writes in a note with copies of The Hindu and The Indian Express.
"What a vast difference in culture, poverty and people," she adds.
In North Attleboro, Valerie Stone is back from The Orient with copies for me of The Japan Times, The Shanghai Daily and China Daily.
Joan Roche of Norton has been off on a riverboat cruise - it was called Christmastime on the Seine - and she brought me back copies of The Daily Telegraph and The Daily Mail from London and Le Monde from Paris that she picked up on her way home.
"Six not-so-seniors went on this Grand Circle Tour," she writes. "It was our Christmas present to ourselves."
"The sights, sounds and adventures along the Seine were amazing.
"On board the ship we were known as the Tea Party Gals - after the Boston Tea Party.
"Paris was wonderful," she adds.
And Maureen Dempster of North Attleboro also brought me back newspapers from a recent trip to Europe.
Like others, Nancy Mulcahey of Plainville went East, and brought me a copy of The South China Morning Post.
"My son Jackson has been living in Hong Kong for two years and for Christmas he took me back with him to celebrate the New Year," she writes.
"We had a fantastic time. He knows the best restaurants and his way around to all the special places.
"Hong Kong had a cold snap also," she adds, "but for me, a New Englander, the weather was perfect!"
Funny, but I think all but one of the papers they brought back were in English.
Doesn't anyone...No, nobody stays home any more - but me. Some readers had fun right here in the good ol' USA. Read on:
"We travelled to see my mother-in-law in Greensboro, N.C., and my sister and niece in Clayton, N.C., then on to my husband's cousin at her beach house in Myrtle Beach, right on the water," says a note from Louise and Bob Johnson with copies of The Fayetteville Observer and the Greensboro News and Record.
"Beautiful weather all week. Tried to pick up a local paper when we left Myrtle Beach at 6 a.m. but the clerk said the paper boy delivered whenever he got up on Saturday morning!
"Got the Fayetteville paper up the road instead."
Thanks To Ken Nye, former operations manager here, for a copy of The Tennessean he brought back from a trip to Nashville.
"Friendly city," he reports.
"Just home from Austin, Texas, following a visit with our son John, who is enrolled in a doctoral program at the University of Texas," writes Sheila McKenna of Attleboro.
"The publication I am dropping off, The Daily Texan, serves the UT-Austin community."
Thanks to Ken McLean of South Attleboro for a copy of The Herald from Randolph, Vt.
See you next week.
ORESTE P. D'ARCONTE is publisher of The Sun Chronicle. Reach him at 508.236.0394 or at
darconte@thesunchronicle.com.
