Remember the magazines in the doctors’ offices? Gone. Everybody is scrolling through their smartphone. Remember the printed newspaper delivered in the dark and perused with your morning coffee? Not in the driveway anymore. Instead of turning a paper page, you tap, click, and scroll.
For most of us, print has been replaced by a digital format. We Google, Zoom, YouTube, Facebook, Email, Text, and TicToc. And log in with face-recognition (or hard-to-remember passwords). We shop online, order food, book our travel, balance our bank accounts, pay bills, and take free classes (and pay-per-view webinars) online—mostly from our phones (or a tablet, laptop, or desk computer if we need a bigger screen).
So, sadly (because I’ve really loved doing this), it seemed it was time for the Stage to make its final run, another icon that will, hopefully, be remembered with love…or at least fondness. Although an archival version will still be accessible online, the San Juan Silver Stage as you’ve known it, will be permanently parked as a museum piece at the end of he last formal issue, December 2021. Please stop by for a visit at Silverstage.news and share in the memories.
Kathryn Burke, Publisher
Postscript. And now, because I can’t quite quit, click back in and read the Silver Stage NEW news—articles I write for other publications, promotions for regional cultural sources. You can also find more of them on my personal website at kathryrburke.com. I’m no where near ready to ride off into the sunset…yet.
