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The library in my town has a 1998 newspaper clipping about a 'killer bee invasion' pinned to the wall, and nobody there can tell me who put it up
I was killing time at the East Side branch on Tuesday while waiting on a parts delivery and noticed this yellowed article taped inside the reading room, complete with a headline saying Africanized bees had reached our county within 48 hours. I looked it up on my phone and the real story was that a single swarm hit a farm 60 miles south, got sprayed, and that was the end of it. Does anyone know a good way to check old local paper archives, cause I want to see how many other panic stories from the 90s are still hanging around as 'history'?
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mason_reed4722d ago
Honestly that line about panic stories from the 90s still hanging around as history really hits home for me. I grew up in a small town and our library had the same kind of thing, old clippings about satanic cults and razor blades in candy that turned out to be total nonsense. The worst part is nobody ever takes them down, so new people just walk in and think it actually happened. For archives, your best bet is asking the librarian about microfilm reels, most branches keep old local papers on those even if they act clueless about the wall stuff. Some papers also got scanned into sites like Newspapers.com or the state historical society's digital archive, but small town papers are hit or miss. It bugs me how much fake fear gets pinned up like a trophy and real facts just fade out.
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