What's Up With That?

For more than a decade, the Observer-Reporter ran a regular Monday profile of an individual (or occasionally, individuals) in the Washington/Greene County area who had an interesting story to tell.

Eventually, all standing features run their course, so we came up with a new concept for each Monday: What's Up With That? The title is self-explanatory. Numerous occurrences prompt that question, and we're trying to come up with some answers.


Tying in with the newspaper feature is a short video production related in some manner to the topic at hand. We've started with a three-minute film called "Amanda Ponders the Hereafter," accompanying Amanda Gillooly's story about a venture called casketfurniture.com, which, indeed, makes caskets that can be used as furniture until they're needed for the other purpose.

We're attempting to bring some levity to the subject matter, and in test screenings we had viewers chuckling.

Here, you can judge for yourself: "Amanda Ponders the Hereafter"