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Sketching the Political Landscape
Editorial cartoonist, Pulitzer Prize finalist Robert Ariail calls Camden home
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As an editorial cartoonist, Robert Ariail has a “Fair and I were both interested in owning a
unique view of a wide variety of things, from the historic home but weren’t successful in finding one
political (his usual fare) to what’s available in his in Columbia due to the price range.”
adopted hometown of Camden.
The friend encouraged the couple to consider
The three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and his wife, Camden.
Fair, moved to Camden on New Year’s Day, Jan. 1,
2001, into a historic home on Broad Street. “We didn’t think anything would come of it but
loved the town and the house,” Ariail recalls.
His wife was friends with a woman who had lived
in Camden for many years, and the Ariails came to They were wrong. The house -- and town -- would
know Camden through her. become theirs.
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