Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Doug Hunt is gone

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Lauri Shillings reports that longtime Crawfordsville Journal Review reporter Doug Hunt died this afternoon.

I shared a Hoosier State Press award with Doug a few years ago for our coverage of the life and death of one of the first flag-raisers on Iwo Jima. He was the institutional memory of the Journal Review and a community treasure.

Doug had been in poor health all the time I knew him because of a failing transplanted kidney.

He was a real newsie. I can’t think of a higher compliment. I shot this photo of Doug as he watched a half-block of downtown Crawfordsville go up in flames one spring morning.

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