TINY PAPER RETURNS TO TINY TOWN!

HILARIOUS HAVOC TO BE WROUGHT AS MINI NEWS OFFICE OPENS

Hello, from the nexus of the universe!—Nanton.

I'm pleased to report to all you fine lifelong-Nantonites, love-obsessed interloping Natonians (like me) and just-here-because-[insert name]-had-to-pee Nantinians, that a new miniature news office has opened for the very first time in history.

History needs to be made, not just preserved, and Nanton is the Town-Formerly-Known-As-Where-History-Lives-But-Where-History-Still-Lives-Despite-The-Tagline-Change. So. Where better than a 1906 MacEwan Schoolhouse to conduct a summer’s worth of experiments?

The Town was kind enough to loan their Visitor Information Centre to double as my little Experiment newsroom/gopher-blind. this summer.* The office is at the corner of Nexus and Other Nexus, off Nexus 2 North. Don't believe me? Last week a couple from Fairbanks was going to New Mexico or Arizona or somewhere, and another couple from Fort Worth was going to where this other couple was from in Alaska to ride motorcycles across the Arctic Circle. One local pseudo-scientific official called Nanton a nexial collision-sphere. People of Earth meeting as they drive south and north across North America.

“Sweet experiment,” I said to the couple with the bucket-list goal of crossing the 66º 33’ parallel of latitude. “I would come with you but who would man the mini news office? ... Nanton NEEDS it mini news after all ...”

They inquired as to the existence of this newspaper—did I have a copy? As I explained the newspaper’s non-existence or at least, not-yet-done-it-ness, I told them I was working on an experiment that very minute.

So here it is: Experiment Numero Uno— can I reconnect a copy of the Nanton Experiment with Dan and Patsy Peralta of Granbury, Texas, who said (and I can quote because it’s in writing in the Guest Log): “Very nice town.”

And very nice printing, Patsy. I hope you both had a lovely ride in the land of midnight sun, and that a copy of this paper reaches you in the mail upon your return.

May all life’s journeys and experiments hold wonderful surprises.

* no gophers were harmed writing this newspaper.