Expanding local vocabularies
The Nov. 10 edition of the Observer-Reporter carried a headline reading “Trump Country.” I, too, feel an urge to submit an opinion about Donald Trump’s election.
Greene County extends far beyond the confines of Waynesburg. Local journalists who feel the need to expand their vocabularies should sojourn through the huge areas of “down east” Greene County. The people living there are not considered, as are Wall Street bankers, to be too big to fail. Incidentally, these people vote.
Places of interest abound “down east.” There is the Monongahela River, defunct coal-mining towns, such as Crucible, Nemacolin (where I was born), Sterling-Moffit and on and on.
Folklore has it that a picture is worth a thousand words. A press photographer taking pictures on the sojourn would certainly contribute mightily toward expanding local vocabularies.
Paul Lagojda
Cumberland