About 50 years ago, Grant Wise was hired at his first job.
He was only 11, but he handled duties that would make some grownups cry in protest.
Up at 3 a.m., seven days a week, he pedaled his bicycle, while hefting a heavy canvas bag, for miles through the dark streets of Hodgenville – no matter the weather. He retraced his route in the afternoon.
He was a newspaper boy.
Wise’s story, along with several others, is included in Little Merchants: The Golden Era of Youth Delivering Newspapers, a book by Sandra L. Walker.