My essay “The Bookstore Time Forgot” appears in the current issue of Frontier Magazine. It tells Nashville’s story through Elder’s, Tennessee’s oldest bookstore. Randy Elder keeps it alive in a converted mattress outlet on White Bridge Road beneath a green sign that says
Love that your first was Foote and Percy's letters. Haven't read all of them, but one of my favorites was where Foote wrote Percy, "Have you ever been tempted to just run away from your wife and off to the South Pacific with two co-eds?" Apparently the gray eminence of Southern history had a hard time hanging on to marital bliss.
Many, many purchases there over the years, my first copy of I’ll Take My Stand and Paul Conkin’s book on the Agrarians among them.
Underappreciated, too, is Elder’s large collection of Church of Christ/Disciples of Christ literature. I found a near flawless first edition of William Baxter’s Life of Elder Walter Scott there many years ago.
Love that your first was Foote and Percy's letters. Haven't read all of them, but one of my favorites was where Foote wrote Percy, "Have you ever been tempted to just run away from your wife and off to the South Pacific with two co-eds?" Apparently the gray eminence of Southern history had a hard time hanging on to marital bliss.
Many, many purchases there over the years, my first copy of I’ll Take My Stand and Paul Conkin’s book on the Agrarians among them.
Underappreciated, too, is Elder’s large collection of Church of Christ/Disciples of Christ literature. I found a near flawless first edition of William Baxter’s Life of Elder Walter Scott there many years ago.
Definitely. And I’ve found many of his best books never make it onto the online catalog. Also, ephemera-maxxing.
Well done Cuz!
Thank you, Cousin!