Olde-Timey Is the Best Timey

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In 2007, Paul McWhorter, a West Texas-based collector of vintage photographs, launched the Web site Old Picture of the Day. The images he posts tend to have weekly themes (coal mining, trains, women’s hats) with contests on Saturdays, when McWhorter challenges his readers to identify portraits of historical figures. Read more at newyorker.com…

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I’m the deputy managing editor at strategy + business, a freelance editor at Belt, and the former web manager at The New Yorker. My writing and editing also has appeared in The New York Times, The Independent, the Observer, the Rumpus, the Cleveland Clinic Press, and Northern Ohio Live. Additionally, I was a founding team member of Maven, a healthcare app for women. I live in Brooklyn with my husband, the musician and writer Mike Errico, and our daughter. Follow me @sally_errico.