The Grahamstown Gazette's December 2019 issue was its final one in its current form. The signs are looking good for it to rise like a phoenix in the new year and set off in a new direction, and I'll be keen to get back on board when that happens. In the meantime, this was the farewell I added to my December column.
The Grahamstown Gazette has had a huge impact on me in the last five (geez, is it really five?) years. It’s been a chance to improve at something I'm good at and I enjoy doing (ie. researching weird local historical shenanigans and spinning a narrative round them) in a way that benefits a whole chunk of the community (my adoring fans!). It’s been fantastic to be part of a collective like the Gazette crew, where everybody's spinning their own specialised little corner of magic to bring together the whole. Wherever the Gazette winds up from here, we owe a lot to our fabulous Crusty Ed!
If you’ve enjoyed my writing, please feel welcome to pop into the library and tell me so. Most of my Gazette back catalogue is available on my blog, locquaciousantiquarian.blogspot.com.
Ngā mihi nui,
Nicole
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A stray observation: correct me if I'm wrong here, but I believe the Gazette's demise, and the Hauraki Herald's Thames office's closure earlier this year, mean Thames will be without a locally-published newspaper in January for the first time since the Thames Guardian and Mining Record kicked off in 1871. Let's not keep it that way for too long, okay?
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