Douglas County court reporter can still put pen to paper

TUSCOLA – Nellie Gilpin sits at the front of the courtroom and records the legal proceedings that take place in the Douglas County Courthouse in the same way she's done it for more than 40 years – with a pen and notebook.

Take a look at the notebook page and you see it's filled with graceful swoops and zigzags and lines, illegible to those unfamiliar with shorthand.

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