My Gramps and Microfilm

I stole an hour the other day and went to the library to look at microfilm of our paper from 1962. I’m working on a long-term research and reporting project. Some of the nation’s large newspapers — New York Times, Wall Street Journal — have been digitized and can be searched online. But if you want to look at issues of the Longview newspaper from 1962, that means slowly scrolling through microfilm a page at a time. These trays of microfilm tell the story of this community nearly five decades ago, the rough draft of our history. I often wonder in what manner historians will access our paper...

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