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1859–2023 · THIN, AND PRINTED THIN
The record. Mishawaka's papers were many and long-lived — the Newspapers file owns them — but the step from its newsrooms to the book shelf is short in the record reached, and it is printed at that size. It begins before the books did: Merrifield's nine newspaper articles of 1859 were history written for a newspaper's columns, the course De Kever's essays would repeat a century and a half later out of a classroom rather than a newsroom. The Enterprise's longest editor, Edward A. Jernegan (1872–1920), left the paper itself as his monument; no book of his stands in the record reached, and the same holds for the Tribune's Mishawaka men of the next century — the bureau's books, if any were written, were not reached and are named as a gap in this section's note rather than filled. The one full newspaper-to-book course the city can claim runs through Kevin Gosztola, entered above: a Mishawaka birth whose journalism was formed and practiced elsewhere and came home only as a biography line. The city's own book-writing, in the end, was done by its teachers and its historians — the next article's small record and the De Kever shelf's eight volumes — and not by its press.
Sources:
- Newspapers (this record) — the Enterprise succession and Jernegan's editorship (1872–1920); the Tribune bureau's course.
- Peter J. De Kever, Mishawaka: A History (2023) — the Merrifield series of 1859.