![]() ![]() ![]() She often used Barney as her foil in her weekly column, he was her muse. ![]() She worked double duty for many years, arriving home from a full of day of covering the news to hostessing at the family restaurant. In 1979, just as Barney was changing careers to become a proprietor of a restaurant, motel and store in West Pittsfield Ann began to work full-time at the paper, commuting daily to Waterville. Every day one of her kids would be coerced to dash on bike or foot to meet the bus in front of Humphrey’s Drug Store so her copy and photo negatives would make it to press on time at the Morning Sentinel headquarters in Waterville. She wrote about pressing topics that are still relevant today: prison reform, being Black in Maine, teen suicide, and women in the workplace. Ann covered every town meeting, anniversary, wedding, sports event, murder, accident, and fire – often with her son Patrick in tow to take photos while she wrote copy.įrom 1963-78 Ann worked at home covering the news and writing feature stories, interviewing famous and non-famous people alike, including Margaret Chase Smith, Bernard Langlais, Della Reese, Mickey Rooney, Rosemary Clooney, Henry Fonda, Barbara Cooney, and First Lady Rosalynn Carter to name just a few. In 1963, the family moved to Pittsfield where she was hired as the Pittsfield correspondent, paid $35 dollars a week. To quote Ann: “After a couple weeks of gathering the news I knew I was on to something. She jumped at the chance to supplement their family income and, as she shared with her readers in one of her hundreds of columns, it also gave her a break from the routine of changing diapers and picking up toys. He told her she would be paid 15 cents an inch and 5 cents a photo. A neighbor, who was a newspaper editor for the Morning Sentinel, needed a correspondent for the community of China. Related Ann McGowan, former Morning Sentinel managing editor, dies at 87Ī knock on the door by a stranger in 1961 would change her future. ![]()
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