Press Register begins '200 Years in 20 Days'

The Mobile Press Register as it was when I was there 1979-94.

In case you haven’t seen it, The Mobile Press Register is marking the 200^th anniversary of the newspaper with a series of features called "200 Years in 20 Days."

The series includes the news, sports and entertainment events that have occurred since 1813. The first installments today include stories about the events that led up to Mobile being acquired by the United States from the Spanish and the massacre at Fort Mims during the Creek War of 1813-14.

The series also will include “We Were There” features in which current and former employees and other writers provide their first-person accounts of reporting on some of the top news stories of the last 50 years. I’m one of those the paper has asked to write a first-person account. It will appear sometime by the end of the month.

I am looking forward to reading the other accounts by former colleagues and by MPR staffers I never knew.

I, too, am looking to former staffers to include their stories here. If you have a suggestion for a post, then please contact me.