The popular “Now and Then” newspaper columnist Paul Dorpat celebrated his 85th birthday over the weekend with a procession of visitors
Paul Dorpat visited with KIRO Newsradio's Feliks Banel on Halloween to mark the 85th birthday that Dorpat celebrated over the weekend. birthday over the weekend with a procession of visitors. On Halloween, KIRO Newsradio caught up with him for a look back at his career as the photographer and writer behind the popular “Now and Then” newspaper column and several regional history books.in the Sunday magazine that he began 40 years ago – and it’s been online for years, too, of course.
For example, while digital copies of vintage photos fly back and forth 24/7 on social media here in the 2020s, Dorpat should get a lot of credit for working for years in that analog age. Dorpat was bringing vintage photos to the masses before scanning of images was commonplace, and when there was no such thing as online databases of old photos and no easy way to sift through history other than putting in the time to go somewhere in person and dig through the archives.
Dorpat lives in a care facility now and is in pretty good health, though is not as mobile as he once was. He’s got a terrific group of friends who visit frequently and who provide other support, including Clay Eals and Jean Sherrard, the two men who took over the “Now and Then” column at the end of 2019. They were Paul’s hand-picked successors, and they’re both talented journalists and historians he’s known for decades.
Talking about the work and what it means – and the magnetic pull history journalism has for some – brought out the more serious, or at least the more philosophical, side of Paul Dorpat. Eals said he and Sherrard have kept up the feel and spirit of Dorpat’s decades doing the column, but also are working to make it their own, too.
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