{"id":17271,"date":"2018-09-22T06:59:50","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T03:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=17271"},"modified":"2018-09-22T06:59:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T03:59:50","slug":"a-headstone-for-tryout-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/09\/22\/a-headstone-for-tryout-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"A headstone for ‘Tryout’ Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Eagle Tribune<\/em>, Mass., newspaper today. I won’t link to the full story, as they block all Web traffic from the UK and Europe.<\/p>\n

‘Tryout’ Smith finally gets a headstone<\/strong><\/p>\n

22nd Sept 2018.<\/em><\/p>\n

HAVERHILL \u2014 A Haverhill man who operated a small printing press in his shed on Groveland Street more than 100 years ago and helped launch the career of horror-fiction author H.P. Lovecraft and others now has his own headstone at the Hilldale Cemetery.<\/p>\n

Charles W. “Tryout<\/em>” Smith, who lived from 1852 to 1948, was an early pioneer of the amateur journalism movement. He will be honored on Saturday with a ceremony capped by the placement of a headstone at his gravesite, where previously only a stone for his father, a Civil War veteran, existed.<\/p>\n

“Tryout<\/em> Smith was a very well known figure in a very specific market, the amateur journalism movement at the start of the 20th century,” said historian and author David Goudsward, a Haverhill native.<\/p>\n

Securing a grant from The Aeroflex Foundation, Goudsward, 57, contracted with Atwood Memorial to craft a headstone at Hilldale. A dedication ceremony<\/a> is Saturday [22nd] at 6:30 p.m. as part of Essex Heritage\u2019s Trails & Sails. <\/p>\n

Also on Saturday is a display of Smith\u2019s work, the release of a commemorative booklet and self-guided tours with H.P Lovecraft significance taking place between 1 and 4 p.m., at the Buttonwoods Museum, 240 Water St.<\/p>\n

Goudsward, who grew up in the Ayers Village section of Haverhill, lives in Palm Beach County, Florida with his wife, Heather Bernard, also a Haverhill native.<\/p>\n

[… and then the article goes on to give a potted account of Smith’s biography and connections with Lovecraft, which readers of this blog will already know about or be able to find on their shelves.]<\/p>\n

The local radio station also has a nice crisp crop of ‘Tryout<\/em>‘ Smith at his compositing table, which I’ve colorised and added a late 1880s map to. He’s in the process of picking out the metal type (individual letters) which will enable him to set up a page of his little magazine for hand-printing.<\/p>\n

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The Fossil<\/a><\/em> for July 2012<\/a> is a “Memories of ‘Tryout<\/em>‘ Smith” special issue, with several contributions by Lovecraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the Eagle Tribune, Mass., newspaper today. I won’t link to the full story, as they block all Web traffic …<\/p>\n

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