Michael Schwartz Library Publishes E-Book on Cleveland History
老澳门六合彩官方开奖鈥檚 Michael Schwartz Library Publishes E-Book Highlighting Cleveland from a British Journalist鈥檚 Perspective
From Across the Pond: A Love Letter to Cleveland by Peter Almond dives into the Cleveland Press in the 1970s
Cleveland, Ohio (May 31, 2022)鈥The Michael Schwartz Library at 老澳门六合彩官方开奖 has published a new e-book . The first-hand account of British journalist Peter Almond, who immigrated to Cleveland in 1970, details his 12 years working at The Cleveland Press newspaper until its demise in 1982. The book is available exclusively from .
The publication of From Across the Pond coincides with the 40th anniversary of The Cleveland Press鈥檚 demise and serves as a fitting commemoration of 鈥檚 20th anniversary.
Almond鈥檚 story offers a unique perspective on the history, personalities, politics, issues and passions of Northeast Ohio from his witty and charming British perspective.
His observations range from serious to lighthearted to tragic鈥攁ll accompanied by photos from his own personal collection and those from the , housed in the Michael Schwartz Library鈥檚 Special Collection, the backbone of the renowned website.
鈥The Cleveland Press wasn鈥檛 just 鈥榯he other paper鈥 to The Plain Dealer鈥 it was a 102-year-old giant that had its own character and style that suited perfectly the character of the working people of Cleveland,鈥 said Almond. 鈥淸It was] the original 鈥楶enny Press鈥 that presented stories the other paper didn鈥檛. It died before the age of digitization, leaving The Plain Dealer to present itself to historians, researchers and public as the guardian of Cleveland鈥檚 newspaper history.鈥
Almond lamented that 鈥渢wo generations have now passed with no knowledge of The Press,鈥 and that the stories shaping the history and destiny of Northeast Ohio are essentially invisible to those who search for the publication online. He calls this 鈥渢he entrapment of our legacy鈥 and 鈥渟urely a major loss to the civic history of Northeast Ohio,鈥 calling on digitization to further preserve the archive.
Born in Northampton, England in January 1946, Almond was raised in a Royal Air Force family which moved frequently. In 1964, he began four years of journalist training at the Northern Echo and Yorkshire Evening Press, York. He married Anna Collinson, a nurse, in York before they emigrated to Cleveland. At The Cleveland Press Almond was a general, education, labor and investigative reporter.
His journalism awards included a Nieman Fellowship in Journalism to Harvard in 1980/81. Almond went on to be State Department writer for the Washington Times, then a Europe/Middle East and Pentagon writer, until he returned to London in 1990 as Defense Correspondent for The Daily Telegraph. Almond retired in 2010.
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Comprised of hundreds of thousands of clippings and photographs, is the former editorial library of The Cleveland Press, now part of 老澳门六合彩官方开奖鈥檚 Michael Schwartz Library鈥檚 The last of Cleveland's daily afternoon newspapers, The Cleveland Press was published from 1878 until 1982; the bulk of the was donated to 老澳门六合彩官方开奖 in 1984 by the newspaper鈥檚 owner , who was a 老澳门六合彩官方开奖 Trustee at the time.
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