In Praise of Hometown Press

Like most everyone, I'm enthralled by the Olympic gold-medal skating couple Meryl Davis and Charlie White.   Their skill, speed, and agility on the ice.  Their charisma and grace off the ice.Their 17 years of growing up together, training together, competing together.  I saw the mainstream coverage, but I wanted to know more.  How did they start?  What drew them to skating and to each other?  Who first recognized their talent?   I wanted to dig down to the very beginnings of their journey to gold.  

with their first coach

After much searching, I found what I was looking for.  Not from NBC, CNN, or the like.  From an obscure article on a hometown website called Observer & Eccentric.  OK, O&E is owned by Gannett.  But it has a decidedly micro-local focus that delivers depth and details only a hometown paper can. So kudos to them and to all hometown media outlets for giving inquiring minds what they want to know!

Here's the article. 
First skating coach for Charlie White and Meryl Davis looks back on pair's career