Remembering Hot Metal
When you pick up a newspaper you simply see the public face. They have long been complex institutions. My family had a history in the business. During the early 1950s my father was publishing a group of five weekly newspapers in southern Ulster County. He bought them for $2,500 in 1951 from a motivated seller. He had been the general manager for the Hudson Valley Newspapers that had a plant on River Road in Marlborough. It was a ramshackle place but had a deep history in that community. If he could move the plant from Milton to Highland they were his. It’s long been known tha...
