There was a time in this county when a kid on a bike would throw a hand up at a locomotive engineer and the engineer would toot like the relationship meant something — same as waving at a tractor on US-36 or a combine off toward Cable.
Now people stream podcasts through grade crossings and act shocked when the gates are down on the way to Monument Square.
The Fake Burg Telegram is not anti-progress. We are anti-acting like you’re too busy to acknowledge a 90-car monument to somebody else’s job. Wave at the train. Wave at the tractor. Wave at the guy who mows ditches for a living between Mechanicsburg and St. Paris. If that’s corny, good. Corn is our whole economy.