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...news from Boston was sketchy and unconfirmed. Still, no newspaper that took pride in its independence could ignore it. So the Connecticut Courant, in Hartford, boldly displayed the item: "We hear from Boston that last Thursday evening, between 300 and 400 Boxes of the celebrated East India TEA, by some ACCIDENT! which happened in an attempt to get it on Shore, fell overboard-That the Boxes burst open and the Tea was swallowed up by the vast Abyss...
When that historical incident from America's past appeared in the Courant in the issue of Dec. 21, 1773, the paper was already a veteran of nine years. It had staked a proud and exclusive claim to a title that it still holds. This year the Hartford Courant observes its 200th anniversary, a chronological fact that makes it the oldest newspaper in the U.S.* - an institution some twelve years senior to the nation itself...
Farms for Lease. Today, American schoolchildren commit to memory the names, dates and events that the Courant once committed to print. In 1765 the paper published a wrathful editorial ("The most arbitrary monarchs in the universe") and suspended publication for five weeks to protest the Stamp Act just enforced by England. Thomas Paine's revolutionary tracts were carried in full in the Courant; so was the Declaration of Independence-on an inside page, and under the mildest of headlines: A DECLARATION BY THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA...
...Nice Part. Some of the world premieres played during the week were clearly also swan songs-the one and only performance of some trail blazer's lapse into buffoonery. But the au courant audience had come to hear a conclave of the bizarre as well as the beautiful, and like buyers at a fall fashion showing in Paris, they cherished the new and outlandish for its own sake...
Herbert Brucker, articulate editor of the Hartford Courant and newly elected president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, took a more practical tack. Hoping to put the issue in perspective, and also to put it on the shelf, he suggested that he and his colleagues "put ourselves in the other fellow's shoes...