Many people inside this media didn’t really know Larry. In fact, I didn’t work with Larry very often, as he was under the management of our former Advertising Manager Kurt Kuehnert. Despite Larry’s soft presence in this media company, he was never overlooked by those who did know and work with him.

Until it’s not.

No, I’m not joking. It’s a serious question. Because everyone in my house this year has been sick seemingly nonstop.

A couple weeks ago, my wife’s cousin (who has a son around the same age as mine) invited us to go on a flashlight Easter egg hunt sponsored by their park district. My first thought was that it sounded pretty neat. Normally Easter egg hunts involve about ten thousand screaming kids making a mad dash across an open field, scooping up hastily hidden eggs like they were harvesting precious commodity. Although slightly odd, a nighttime Easter egg hunt sounded just enough different to be interesting and fun. It also sounded less congested and hectic. We were in.

For obvious reasons, I clicked on the headline and the very first thing that caught my attention when the page loaded was, of course, the illustration: a black silhouette of a fountain pen tip against a bright red background. I generally enjoy The Atlantic’s illustrations, but I immediately dismissed this as lazy.

This year, we launched the print edition of My Huntley News, giving the Huntley community for the first time in many years a local news source beyond the digital variety, and so far as we can see, it’s been widely accepted throughout the village.

When I think of thrift stores, which I honestly haven’t frequented in a little more than twenty years, I think of cool finds from the 70s (or maybe a little before or after) because clothes from the 70s were the clothes most found in thrift shops when I frequented them.

In this instance, MHN Lead Reporter Michelle Moreno, with permission, used a friend’s profile to post a question to a Facebook group for a recent story. Michelle clearly identified herself and her intentions. A couple respondents, though, were later shocked to find their words in print, assuming Michelle had “lifted” their comments without permission from a group chat, though Michelle was the author of the question and clearly stated it was for My Huntley News.

And then, all at once, my entire opinion on Hitchcock’s classic masterpiece changed.

It’s true, students of science tend to have much more work to do that students of writing, but I’m not talking about narrative writing or even narrative non-fiction (which is still fiction). I’m talking about journalism, which is a craft.

But I’d like to tell you about Marvin.