One Month of Blogging!

Yesterday, The Yuba Post celebrated its one-month anniversary of daily blogging. This is a tremendous achievement and we're all very proud of ourselves.

Of course, The Yuba Post has been around for more than just one month. Actually, it has been providing news and obituaries to the good people of Yuba for centuries, albeit in a number of different forms. Before going digital, The Yuba Post was a daily newspaper delivered to subscribers once every fortnight, fourteen papers at a time. This format was introduced in 1974. Prior to this, distribution was done through daily phonograph recordings, available for listening at specific booths in the Yuba Trading Post. This experimental news format was an immediate failure, though it lasted nearly ten years, from 1965-1974. Before this, and for the majority of the 20th century, The Yuba Post was a daily newspaper delivered once a year on New Year's Eve, 365 issues at a time (366 during leap years). Other news delivery formats used by The Yuba Post over the years include such varied methods as pigeon carriers, nautical flags, semaphore flags, smoke signals, and braille engravings.

Of course, the original Yuba Post was an actual post that the good people of Yuba actually posted news items to. This was constructed in 1763, and its erection was recreated in the famous drawing by Yuba's most prolific painter, Artist Unknown:

The Posting of Yuba by Artist Unknown.


Posting on the Post was abandoned during the US Civil War in favor of musical ballads, but taken up again briefly during The Yuban Civil War. And, of course, everyone knows the stories of the bizarre female cult that utilized the Post during Prohibition, as captured in this controversial photograph:

And not many people know that the original Yuba Post is still in existence today, still in its original location, just up the road from The Yuba Trading Post, faded and forgotten by most but still carrying the proud memories of a small town in its lonely, rotting fibers.