When steno pads and typewriters and adding machines governed commerce, the Fox River Valley was the Silicon Valley of the paper industry. Lumberjacks herded fresh cut logs in its waterways. Beside the river, millworkers pulverized the timber into pulp as smooth as cake batter. As the pulp cooked, mill owners inhaled deeply its sulphur-scented effluence like it was money.
And now even with all the RAMs and Gigabytes and microchips pumped out by Silicon Valley, the Fox and its sister rivers still buoy a $654 billion paper industry. Look around your favorite coffee shop. Beside nearly every laptop, is a ragged spiral notebook or a perfect-bound journal. Even tech-savvy millennials still like to bundle their lumbering words and pictures onto sinewed rivers of ink.
And now even with all the RAMs and Gigabytes and microchips pumped out by Silicon Valley, the Fox and its sister rivers still buoy a $654 billion paper industry. Look around your favorite coffee shop. Beside nearly every laptop, is a ragged spiral notebook or a perfect-bound journal. Even tech-savvy millennials still like to bundle their lumbering words and pictures onto sinewed rivers of ink.
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