Mollie Hemingway, Ed.: Farewell, Typewriters

The last typewriter factory in the world is closing down and, for some reason, it makes me a bit melancholic.

I'm not that old but my first office job included typing up real estate contracts on a typewriter. I'm rather glad to have had the experience. I'm a much better typist on account of it.

And I remember that when my father, a Lutheran pastor, left our congregation in California to serve a congregation in Colorado in 1983, the former congregation bought him an awesome, new-fangled electronic typewriter. It was able to correct mistakes! Can you imagine?

Finally, I'll offer my favorite typewriter image. Anyone else slightly blue over the typewriter's demise? Or should we simply celebrate the technological improvements that led to its destruction?