The Journal Tribune of York, Maine, died on Oct. 12 at the age of 135. The cause was money – actually, lack of it, the daily newspaper said.  Lisa DeSisto, the CEO of the company that had bought the paper 18 months earlier, told employees, “Despite efforts to reduce expenses and grow revenue, we have not been able to make the Journal Tribune profitable. When...

History is what actually happened, right? Or is history what we individually and collectively remember? Or is history what we choose to tell others that we remember? Or what we want to believe? We connect with the past in our own way. Sometimes there’s a prompt, such as the “On This Day in Michigan History” item in the MIRS newsletter or WKAR Radio’s daily “Michigan...