GREAT BEGINNINGS, 1727
“Elected Silence, sing to me
And beat upon my whorléd ear,
Pipe me to pastures still and be
The music that I care to hear.”
(the beginning of “The Habit of Perfection,” a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1844-1899)
THE EXPRESS, R.I.P.
On July 13, 1961, “The Drayton Leader” ceased publication, leaving Drayton without a newspaper. Gunnard and Truman Ness stepped into the void by publis…