Discovering reminders of the past

Letter from the editor

It's amazing what you can find tucked away and forgotten in the corners of a well-lived-in building.

At least that's what we here at the Bigfork Eagle discovered recently as we moved furniture to make way for a new coat of paint in the office.

Around each corner was a new adventure and reminders of our newspaper's past.

Here were a few of our favorites:

-A cut-out of a can of IGA peeled tomatoes from the days that the paper had to be pasted up rather than designed by computers. It was only in the 1990s that that process gave way to electronic design programs and computer transmitted files.

-A Canon A-1 film camera from the days before digital cameras turned our dark room into a storage space. It was in the early 2000s when that transition took place.

-A 30-volume set of The Encyclopedia Americana published in 1963, before we used Google to help verify dates or events in history.

-Copies of the Bigfork High School yearbook, LeLac, dating back to the 1980s. A look back through them shows us today's teachers, parents and some community leaders with hair and clothing styles much like what will be seen in this weekend's Bigfork Playhouse Children's Theatre production of "Back to the 80s."

Many more relics of our past were discovered, including some forgotten birthday candles and dog treats.

Rearranging desks and filing cabinets turned into a helpful exercise in recognizing and appreciating what brought us to where we are today.

-Jasmine Linabary