Paper Protection

Summary

Paper Protection is a news article^[1].

Key Facts

• Paper Protection's instance of is recorded as news article^[2].
• Paper Protection's publication date is recorded as +1984-11-08T00:00:00Z^[3].
• Paper Protection's main subject is recorded as Selma Louise Freudenberg^[4].
• Paper Protection's work available at URL is recorded as https://familypedia.wikia.org/wiki/File:Selma_Louise_Freudenberg_(1921-2009)_in_The_Record_of_Hackensack,_New_Jersey_on_8_November_1984.jpg^[5].
• Paper Protection's published in is recorded as The Record^[6].
• Paper Protection's title is recorded as Paper Protection^[7].
• Paper Protection's first line is recorded as Sally Norton successfully applied the saying to correct the flooding problem at her Paramus home^[8].
• Paper Protection's author name string is recorded as Regina Gross^[9].
• Paper Protection's last line is recorded as "The newspapers have not deteriorated at all," she says.^[10].
• Paper Protection's copyright status is recorded as copyrighted^[11].
• Paper Protection's quotation or excerpt is recorded as Sally Norton successfully applied the saying to correct the flooding problem at her Paramus home. Every time it rained, the water from a neighbor's yard washed down an incline on Ms. Norton's property, eroding precious top soil and nutrients. And if the showers persisted, plantings were often uprooted and killed. Frustrated and upset by the problem, Ms. Norton turned to newspapers but not the want ads for help. She built a four-foot-high retaining wall of folded newspapers that now absorbs the water before it floods her yard. "I don't know how I got the idea," she says. "I was desperate. Where are you going to get enough stones to build a wall? I am 63 years old, and it is not easy to carry stones. But you can carry newspapers and build a wall." A conservationist who composts vegetables, leaves, branches, and grass clippings, Ms. Norton started building the wall four years ago. Patiently collecting newspapers, she folded them width-wise into narrow bands and laid them on top of each other. After three summers the wall stretched 75 feet, the width of her property. When it rained, the black ink ran over the papers. And when they dried out, the sheets had cemented together. So, unknowingly, the gardener created the look of dark rocks. The stacks do compact over time, she says, so when building a newspaper retaining wall, make it taller than you ultimately need. "The newspapers have not deteriorated at all," she says.^[12].

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Designation and Status

Paper Protection's instance of is recorded as news article^[2].