Conventional wisdom is that, prior to the Internet, it was impossible for individuals to reach a wide audience. Fortunately, nobody bothered to share this conventional wisdom with Charles Edward Caswell of Concord, N.H. , who wrote, edited, printed, and distributed his own magazine, Friendly Cheer.
This article appeared in Popular Science, May 1940, which noted that copies of the magazine went to every state and 14 foreign countries.
We haven’t been able to figure out what happened to Friendly Cheer magazine, and the domain name friendlycheer.com is still available. So if anyone wants to pick up where Caswell, left off, there’s your opportunity. And if anyone has a copy of the magazine, we would love to see it.
Greeting, I have a complete magazine in very good condition…..
Printed June 1947 that belong to my grandmother….
when I was going Through her belongings I discovered it and I’ve been holding on to it every since I felt great pleasure in reading through it there’s a magazine ahead of its time