Thanks to our partners at both the Pettigrew Memorial Library and Perquimans County Library, over 100 more issues of the Perquimans Weekly are now on DigitalNC. The newest batch includes papers published from 2021-2023. The papers will extend DigitalNC’s collection of The Perquimans Weekly an additional three years, stretching all the way back to the paper’s debut issue in 1934 and joining a collection of over four thousand issues!
This astonishing temporal range allows for some truly amazing comparisons between the newspapers of today and those of centuries’ past.
Newer editions of The Perquimans Weekly also display many modern-day advancements in newspaper organization. While newspapers of century past arranged many articles closely together in defined and rigid columns, contemporary issues of The Perquimans provide margins between columns and articles, which are easier for the average readers’ eyes to follow. Articles are no longer rigidly slotted together, but are stacked and layered artfully with an eye for the overall composition of each page. The sections of each issue, too, are more defined and arranged. This century’s journalists have provided Perquiman County readers with signposted guardrails such as “Opinion,” “Sport,” and “Religion.” Gone are the days where letters to the editor had to fight for space with front page columns. Now is the time of reason, art, and effectively displayed journalism!
Interested instead in reading the paper’s previous pages from the twentieth century? Read each issue of The Perquimans online at DigitalNC here, or find their website online here.
