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Posted on January 6, 2018 by Bob Stepno — 2 Comments

This started as technostalgia and finally got me to write something I’ve been trying to get around to for a week… On Facebook, Kathryn Lord, a former Hartford Courant colleague posted this photo of our former Mansfield (Storrs) bureau  teletype…

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When a Pickle Showed Patriotic Colors

Posted on April 1, 2012 by Bob Stepno — Leave a comment

A reminiscence: According to one of the authors, this was an April Fool story that got misdirected to the Fourth of July. Back in the summer of 1979, I was writing the daily “People in the News” column that ran…

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Posted in Connecticut, editors, Google, History, humor, Newspapers, Stepno, The Hartford Courant
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