Good Morning Lowcountry Says Goodbye
Pluffmudders won’t find GMLc’s brand of local news and lore in the daily paper anymore. The Good Morning Lowcountry column has been dumped from 2B, it’s little home since 2000, as of last Saturday. Couple of reasons for this. 1) We’re in a hiring freeze and I am needed to help edit Community News. 2) We shrank the paper in width, and 2B is needed for runover copy, jumps of stories, other stories, etc. But, as I’ve been told, this was not so much a real estate grab as a warm body grab.From my point of view, GMLc might have run its course. I’m OK with turning my attention to other priorities at the paper.
Heather @ June 24, 2008
That is such really sad news. GMLC and the Obits were the only things I enjoyed reading at the PnC!
I’ll miss GMLc. The various writers who contributed to it - especially in the earlier years - were gifted, and the diversity of their talents kept the column free-flowing and fresh. Thanks Harriet, for keeping it going - you’ve done your time, best of luck with what’s next.
I’ve enjoyed GMLC and will miss it!
I enjoyed reading GMLc. Thanks for all that you did to make it a fun read.
I’m sad to hear this news, Harriet. GMLc was the first thing I always looked for in the paper and I always found it informative and entertaining. I’ll miss it a lot.
Chris, Sherry, Syd and Kelly: Thanks SO MUCH for the lovely comments and compliments to GMLc. In the early years at first I wrote it only one day a week and we had this great cameraderie and complicity among the several of us who were writing it. I began writing two, then three, then four, then six, and in 2004, seven a week … full-time. I kind of miss the days of Country of the Week, etiquette rules and other silly stuff. Hopefully, a book will ensue under the P&C’s Joggling Board Press imprint. I’m working on that. Thanks to you guys for reading. I don’t know what we’d do if we couldn’t read each other.
Harriet, do you know where one can buy a sealed can of pluffmud to send to people who live elsewhere. Wouldn’t that add a BLAST to their dreary everyday existence?
I figure YOU would know where to get such a needed item.
Thanks for all the GMLc columns!