Friday, October 4, 2024
The Waupaca Area Public Library’s new exhibit goes back to the days when telephones were connected to walls and words appeared on paper, not screens.
It’s about typewriters and on display are Underwoods, Remingtons, Coronas, and even an IBM Selectric. The typewriters were rounded up and borrowed from people throughout Waupaca County to create the exhibit.
Visitors are not able to clickety-clack the keys and do a hard carriage return as all of them are protected by glass display cases.
The old typewriters are of interest but throughout the exhibit are profiles and quotes from more than 80 people who used typewriters sometime during their lives. It’s a wide-ranging mix.
Many authors are represented such as Mark Twain, James Salter, William Faulkner, Kurt Vonnegut, Agatha Christie and many others. There are journalists such as war correspondent Ernie Pyle and Green Bay native Red Smith. Cultural and political icons are interspersed such as Marilyn Monroe, Pope Francis, Muhammad Ali, Taylor Swift, Clark Gable and Tom Hanks.
The exhibit will end Wednesday, Nov. 6.
