I had a personal mantra as a newspaper correspondent some years ago. If I was where other reporters were, then I was most likely in the wrong place.
I did not always succeed in that goal. There was much routine stuff that my editors felt needed covering – politics, tornadoes, diplomacy, economics, small-town shootings. And did I mention politics?
This is another in the ongoing series of Memories (links to all the others are below) from my journalism and political career and life, which thankfully is also ongoing.
I always wanted to report and then write unique stories, unusual tales that felt different, about interesting people and details, curious, offbeat things readers might not know they wanted to know. After a while, I got a reputation for that, which explains a phone call I received from the U.S. Coast Guard.
Every spring, that service flies patrols out of Newfoundland to…
