How Deep is Your Love? The Mania of Collecting Takes One Journalist to the Bottom of a River
Amanda Petrusich is a music journalist who assigned a story about obsessive collectors of 78rpm records. But she ended up getting a little too close to her subject. She became obsessed herself – and ended up scuba diving in the Milwaukee River, looking for the Holy Grail: a lost collection of Paramount 78s.
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