This was a local newspaper story whose headline astounded me back when I was a new-prof-in-town.
Today I’m reblogging a post I know you’ll love, from the Academe blog, on the subject of headlines. If you want to know the Hooker story, continue to the second Comment on the post!
Enjoy! http://academeblog.org/2015/01/03/why-we-keep-reading-and-why-we-dont/#comment-71198
And here’s Thomas Hooker:

Thomas Hooker Founding Us. He seems a charitable sort of Puritan, but I don’t know how he’d feel about hooker moms….
Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Thomas_Hooker_and_His_Friends_Connecticut.jpeg
March 4th, 2015 at 12:41 am
Reblogged this on winartho2015 and commented:
uniqueness of the blogger is when we say something about something important there are many people who follow the idea that we find.