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== Preface ==
If anyone ever appreciated Brunswick, young Russell Baker was that person. Reading pages
48 through 53 of his book, Growing Up, reinforces the pride we feel about the glory that once was
Brunswick's.
He saw our town at the right time: busy, bustling, prosperous, noisy, and inviting. As with the
Brunswick that reaches out from the pages of Edward C. Shafer's 1891 newspaper, The Herald,
Baker's description reminds one of the fervent activity of the boomtowns of the Old West.
Reading the decades of newspapers, leafing through volumes of minutes of town meetings,
searching ordinances, talking "down Memory Lane" with a dedicated group of old timers, studying
maps created by a devoted town historian, this staff has come close to knowing what Brunswick
was like before Russell Baker visited the town in the 1920's. Wit:h this book, we have attempted
to show the reader a way of life that was a precursor of his 1920's experiences, and we have tried
to show what happened in the seven decades that followed.
We make no pretensions of having provided a scholarly book; we are not particularly scholarly.
But we have tried to produce an honest book, as we saw the times we lived through and as we
interpreted what we have read and heard.
We Brunswickians of all periods must be very proud when we see what the men on the rails
did to help orchestrate the greatness that once marked this town.
- Editor - Mary McMurry Margrabe
- Managing Editor - Elizabeth R. Frye
- Photography Editor - Wendell Stewart
- Computer Operator - Richard Harrington
- Writers - Betty Lou Cavalier
- - Richard Harrington
- - William Harrington
- - Mary Margrabe
- Researchers - Elizabeth R. Frye
- - Mary Margrabe
At the close of each article the letters "S" and "W" stand for Source and Writer.
Names of sources are included; writers' initials refer to staff members.
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