{"id":18845,"date":"2017-08-11T10:26:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T16:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=18845"},"modified":"2017-08-11T10:26:58","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T16:26:58","slug":"backstory-17-years-later-back-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2017\/08\/backstory-17-years-later-back-in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Backstory: 17 years later, back in the news"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Bill\"<\/a>

Ed Kemmick\/Last Best News<\/p>

From the clip files: My original story on Bill Reichert from Aug. 21, 2000.<\/p><\/div>\n

There are some good things about being a dinosaur.<\/p>\n

I first wrote about Bill Reichert and his amazing collection of 45-rpm records 17 years ago, and my story was published in the Billings Gazette on Aug. 21, 2000.<\/p>\n

He had about 10,000 45s then, which was amazing enough, as were his almost comically meticulous records documenting each disc.<\/p>\n

I hadn’t seen Bill in the intervening 17 years, but last week I heard from Dick Wesnick, editor of the Gazette when that story was published, alerting me to some cool news: that Bill was about to donate his entire collection to the Center for Popular Music at Middle Tennessee State University.<\/p>\n

So I caught up with Bill earlier this week, spoke with the director of the Tennessee center and posted my story<\/a> this morning. What a rare treat and a strange privilege to be able to follow up on something like this all these years later.<\/p>\n

The original story was published too long ago for it to be in the Gazette’s digital archives, but fortunately I used to clip everything I wrote and glue the stories into spiral notebooks (did I mention that I was a dinosaur?), and above you’ll see a photo of the original.<\/p>\n

My only regret is that I didn’t take photographer Jim Woodcock along with me this time. My photos weren’t too bad,\u00a0but even on my best day I could never hope to get a shot like the Woodcock photo accompanying the original story. Oh, well.<\/p>\n

And I wanted to add this: I mentioned a few things about the Center for Popular Music<\/a> in the story, but I recommend clicking on the link and doing some exploring there yourself. I’ve been a fan of\u00a0old-time American music for most of my life, so talking to center director Gregory Reish on the phone was like being a kid and talking to Santa Claus.<\/p>\n

What a huge\u00a0honor that our own Bill Reichert, a product of Wolf Point and a longtime resident of Billings, is making this donation to such a fine institution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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