Don Boxmeyer

Don Boxmeyer passed away. That is not news now. If you have followed the local media you have read about his history at the DPP and his years as both reporter and columnist, how his health has not been good, and how his burial has been delayed because of a government snafu.

I determined earlier that I would save my eulogies for January of each year and I won’t change that now. But it would not be in order to not point out that although I respected his work and had read his stuff for years and exchanged some emails with him, that I am only aware of actually meeting him once, when I was in line with him at a book signing for Curt Milburn’s The Phalen Corridor. [Before signing, Milburn had to ask Boxmeyer who he was.]

I wrote about Don Boxmeyer last October. As I noted then,

Most of the time it seems it seems the people of whom he writes are people I don’t know or know only a bit, but are on subjects I find interesting and even if I don’t know the people being written about, it seems that I must know several people who do know them.

I was interested in why the DPP had David Hawley writing the story of his death, since Hawley is one of the many people that no longer work there. Joe Kimball’s excellent MinnPost obit seems to tell us .

But the demise of Don Boxmeyer and the fact that the DPP went outside their own small roster of writers reminds us of how little we get for 25 cents these days. I might write more on that later, but this doesn’t seem like the right post.

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