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Star-Exponent as a linotype operator.
Her brother and his wife kept it going for about two more years and then sold the business and returned to Culpeper and started a separate printing business.
When owner Walter Potter decided to make the the Culpeper StarExponent a daily. Miss Bowie left. “I didn't want to work for a daily,” she said. “I like a country weekly.”
She went to work for the Orange Review. Later she returned to writing and editing as editor of the Madison Eagle. When she left that job she retired.
She took on the enormous job of making a quilt for the bicentenial. The quilt, called “Solomon’s Puzzle” won best of show for in a national quilting contest and the Freedom award in 1981,
She keeps up with the newspapers. She called Bill Diehl, managing editor of the Star-Exponent one day and announced, “You can’t do it. It’s against the law. It's unconstitutional.”
"All right, Lucy Catherine, what have we done?” he asked.
“I said, ‘Get your classified because 1 can’t find any news in the paper any more except in the classified.' I said, ‘I know exactly what happened. A farmer came in, and he said he had a pick-up truck for sale, and it had a wench on it. He can’t sell that wench. It’s against the law.’”
“He said, ‘Oh, Lucy Catherine, you know what happened,’ and I said, ‘Of course I do. That’s what the farmer said, but the girl who took the ad or the typesetter or somebody in that place is supposed to know the difference between a wench and a winch.’”
ou know, tjiey don’t even have proof-readers»anymore,” she continued.
“The English language is the tool of your trade,” she added. “If you’re a carpenter and you don’t know the difference between a saw and a hammer, don’t put on an apron and go apply for a job.”
“You have to like the smell of the ink, and you have to love what you’re doing. You have to be willing to be worked to death and not particularly well paid. And if you like what you’re doing, it doesn’t bother you.”
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