The Report From Potter's Point

FairhavenGuy · Post by **FairhavenGuy** » Mon May 03, 2004 10:25 pm

Some of you may know that my wife and I publish a small, monthly magazine here in Fairhaven, MA. Each month I write a fiction column called The Report From Potter's Point. I actually first created Potter's Point as a weekly newspaper column in the 1980s. It ran in the weekly papers in Somerset, Dartmouth and Middleboro back then.

Anyway, this month's issue of Navigator is just about ready to go to press. I'd like to give you a sneak preview of The Report From Potter's Point for this month.

Hope you enjoy it.

Harry · Post by **Harry** » Mon May 03, 2004 10:44 pm

Fun reading Chris. Of course I might be prejudiced seeing how you used the name Harwid.

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Tue May 04, 2004 8:07 pm

My Explorer won't open your attachment.
It wouldn't open other documents either.
Sorry.
Har, can you copy and send to me?
Thanks
(It may be a Mac thing)

Harry · Post by **Harry** » Tue May 04, 2004 8:46 pm

Will do Kat. It's in PDF.

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Tue May 04, 2004 9:06 pm

Thanks Har!

Hey FairhavenGuy! That was fantastic! Can I be in the next installment?
I was really impressed!

Has anyone else downloaded this hey you guys?

Haulover · Post by **Haulover** » Wed May 05, 2004 1:41 pm

i'd love to see it. i can't download it. can you forward it to me? it's weird. it's trying to come in as an image but there's no image.

FairhavenGuy · Post by **FairhavenGuy** » Wed May 05, 2004 4:45 pm

Okay, I'm attaching it again as a text document. The first one was a PDF.

Hope this works.

FairhavenGuy · Post by **FairhavenGuy** » Wed May 05, 2004 5:02 pm

Harry, glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for inspiring the family name.

Kat, I actually thought of having the Harwids' murder date coincide with your birthdate, but I don't know it and you didn't include it in your profile, either here or in the old forum.

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Wed May 05, 2004 7:46 pm

Nope. My Explorer "doesn't know how to handle this type of file." Thanks again, anyway.
Hey Haulover, did you get it? If not I will send.

FairhavenGuy- it was very inventive! Surely you can stick 2 Koorey sisters in there next installment? That's a lot of material to choose from!

Haulover · Post by **Haulover** » Wed May 05, 2004 9:39 pm

fairhaven:

i got it that time. i enjoyed it. very inventive and "curious."

i'd like to participate myself. what are your needs? i have much "stuff" that could use a home. history, for example? obviously i'm not seeing the whole publication, but if you're looking for ideas from potential contributors, let's talk.

Eugene

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Wed May 05, 2004 10:23 pm

If he foots the $2,000 a year himself, I bet he would like the contributions of a monetary kind! Maybe it'd be tax deductible?

Haulover · Post by **Haulover** » Thu May 06, 2004 12:13 am

i'm sure he would appreciate monetary contributions. i don't understand your $2,000 figure. and i don't believe it would be tax deductible. and i don't understand your response. i wanted to know more about it, and i assumed he would be the one to tell me.

FairhavenGuy · Post by **FairhavenGuy** » Thu May 06, 2004 8:39 am

Haulover,

Glad you liked the story. Our magazine is a hometown, monthly publication with feature stories on Fairhaven people, businesses, history, etc. In addition we print a Kid's page, again primarily with a local focus, recipes, poetry, etc. We pay a small amount ($1 a column inch) to a couple of monthly columnists. Otherwise, my wife and I write the whole thing ourselves. We print 5,000 copies that are distributed free at about 70 locations in Fairhaven and neighboring Acushnet, Mattapoisett and downtown New Bedford. We don't do subscriptions at this time.

The magazine is supported by advertising. Right now it's 32 pages., with about 40-45 paid ads a month. We've made a very small profit since the first issue and now it amounts to a part-time income that helps make ends meet.

Very small potatoes, really.

I'm not sure what Kat's referring to, but if anyone wishes to send us large boxes of cash, we'd find a use for it.

It won't be tax deductible.

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Thu May 06, 2004 11:06 am

I thought I read that your newsletter cost you 2,000 a year to publish? Did it start that way and now you are getting in the black?
Well, either or, it's fantastic that you are making it work and doing such a good job at it and having fun!
That's satisfying and fulfilling!
Congratulations!

Haulover · Post by **Haulover** » Thu May 06, 2004 11:12 am

I get the picture. That was an excellent idea too!

FairhavenGuy · Post by **FairhavenGuy** » Thu May 06, 2004 2:57 pm

Kat, back a couple of months ago when Stef suggested that printed copies of The Hatchet would cost subscribers an extra $30 or so a year, I posted that we print 5,000 copies a month for $975, which comes to just under 20 cents a copy. (This is on newsprint, 8 1/2 x 11 size, two colors on the front and back covers.) I don't know where you got a figure of $2000 a year. Our total printing cost is around $11,700 a year.

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Thu May 06, 2004 3:56 pm

Whoa! Doubly good for you that you've made it work. I'm impressed!
Thanks for the clarification.

Tina-Kate · Post by **Tina-Kate** » Fri May 07, 2004 11:10 pm

That's hilarious, Fairhaven Guy.

What I want to know is Victoria's "Secret" for selling 5,000 copies of her book over the internet!

Tina-Kate · Post by **Tina-Kate** » Fri May 07, 2004 11:15 pm

Excuse me -- that should be UTOPIA's Secret.

I'm done for if this board won't let me edit my Freudian slips!!

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Sat May 08, 2004 10:23 am

Submitted by Tina Kate:
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FairhavenGuy · Post by **FairhavenGuy** » Sat May 08, 2004 10:54 am

Freudian petticoats?

Regarding Utopia's secret: I don't know. When my wife was proofreading the magazine, she asked me why Wallace Slope had kept that one copy. When I told her I didn't know, she said, "But you created this character! How can you not know?"

I think that maybe Slope fibbed about how many of Utopia's books had been sold in order to drive up the price. . .

lydiapinkham · Post by **lydiapinkham** » Sun May 30, 2004 8:38 pm

Hi, Fairhaven!
I finally got a chance to read your story and found it to be great fun! The quahog murder weapon and rhyme are inspired. Thanks for sharing.

--Lyddie

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