Throughout history, duos have accomplished great things together. Perhaps not adversarial pairings such as Cain and Abel, David and Goliath, or the Democratic and Republican parties, but teams of two who were facing in the same direction often created more together than they would’ve done separately. For instance, where would Adam have been without Eve (if nothing else, they provided us with a joke even older than the one about the jaywalking fowl: Eve: “Adam, do you love me?” Adam (looking desperately around): “Who else??”); Astaire without Rogers, Batman without Robin, or Bonnie with no Clyde? Pairings proliferate in every walk of life: Williams had Walker; Butterbeans had Susie; Frodo had Samwise; Proctor had Gamble; Bromo had Seltzer.
There’s a team of two that keeps this beloved publication from going the way of the Birmingham Post-Herald or the Phoenix Gazette; the Northwestern Lumberman or the Utica Saturday Globe. Though neither team member seeks the spotlight, one stays deeper in the shadows than does the other, and this humble columnist thinks it’s high time the light be focused on the “silent” partner.
It’s not a surprise we hear more from and about our esteemed Publisher and Editor, Andy Senior, than we do his stepson, Joe Bebco. Joe contributes a great deal of verbiage to each edition of TST, including the eagerly anticipated “Festival Roundup”
