Many Americans recall Grit with nostalgia. For more than 125 years, this popular Sunday newspaper delivered homespun good news, features, fiction, coupons, and comics to families across the nation. Nearly one million children have sold it, some for a few weeks, and some for several years. They often look back with pride on the experience when, as young entrepreneurs, they knocked on the doors of small-town homes and were welcomed with a smile and a dime for a weekly edition of Grit: America's Greatest Family Newspaper.

Grit was one of the first newspapers in the nation to feature color photographs and artwork, as well as fictional supplements. Although its five-cent price tag eventually increased to 25 cents because of editorial content to advertising.

Kolb Net Works and Robin Van Auken team with the James V. Brown Library to preserve and present the rich history of journalism, with Grit, a national newspaper with a circulation of more than 1.2 million.

Exclusively from Kolb Net Works, you can read the entire Grit beginning with its inaugural issue, December 16, 1882. Download this historic newspaper (PDF from microfilm) today for only 99 cents. Subscribe to Grit and you'll enjoy having consecutive weekly issues of Grit delivered to your e-mailbox for only 99 cents per issue.

Click on this link to download your Inaugural Issue of Grit

Sunday Grit: A Newspaper Legacy

The Williamsport Sun-Gazette is proud to offer Sunday Grit: A Newspaper Legacy.

This new book by author Robin Van Auken features never-before-seen photographs rom Grit's archives as well as stories of local significance and history.
A national timeline of stories that Grit reported on also are included.Many Americans recall Grit with nostalgia.

The cost is $24.95 for the hardbound, 136-page, richly illustrated book. Add tax, shipping and handling, and your total purchase is $31.69. Limited quantities available. Purchase this book online: http://secure.oweb.net/bookoffer/