Hey, @bryan-imhoff.
Good question! I was impressed that it managed to make it in there at all, really, given all the other kinds of stories they had. Woman killed, etc. I used to own and publish two very small community newspapers on a weekly basis, so I've had some experience with story placement. Online you generally scroll through the whole of it until you get to the bottom, which means in a printed paper, Ithaqa was probably the penultimate or last page. If I had been doing it, it would have been at least in the middle where our features generally went, and opposite the sports page, where a lot of attention would be. :)