Bill Wolcott

Bill Wolcott

War of 1812 has lots of connections to us
December 17, 2011
Don’t overlook freedom
November 13, 2011
The scariest movies ever, in my mind
I don’t enjoy scary movies, so my list of scariest is limited. First on my list would have to be “The Wizard of Oz.” The Wicked Witch of the West gave me the creeps and so did her creepy monkeys. Margaret Hamilton was so frightening to children that Mr. Rogers invited the actress to his neighborhood, cleaned the green paint off her face and show she was really a nice person.

October 30, 2011
Who would have thunk, the magic of peanut butter?
If you are what you eat, I guess I was about 50 percent peanut butter as kid. Mom made great dinners for our family of 10, but I had peanut butter for breakfast and peanut butter at bedtime. We rarely ran out.

October 22, 2011
Deciding the news is no trivial matter
September 25, 2011
Want a treasure that’s hard to measure, take a Penney tour
September 18, 2011
Thought-provoking fillers can be fascinating
Before modular layout, newspaper pages were designed with a shotgun, not by page designers.
Stories were spotted all over the place by the person in the slot. We put big headlines on top tried not to bump other headlines. That way, the headlines wouldn’t run into each other. If they did, we used italic type to supplement the Roman.

September 4, 2011
Good day, Irene, for folks in Lockport
While taking a break on the only chair at Ottavino Park behind the Union-Sun’s East Avenue office Saturday afternoon, I thought about how lucky Lockport was to have that old sun shining down on it.
It was a good day, Irene. Off to the east, a big storm was rolling up the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, threatening lives and property. One million people were without power as the hurricane pounded the Mid-Atlantic.

August 28, 2011
Smart phones can wait, babies can't
August 21, 2011 1 Photo
Lessons learned at traffic court
August 13, 2011
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