August 16, 2016
Grounds for New Hope and small press
That weekend, the road initially led to Sculptor’s Way, in Hamilton, NJ, for a summer tour of Grounds for Sculpture, a park created in 1992 by J. Seward Johnson. Sometimes…
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July 26, 2016
Full stop: Portland
As I end this trip in Portland, the first obvious stop had to be Powell’s, the “city of books”. It keeps its promise of gigantism, complete with a colored-and-numbered coded…
July 24, 2016
My frontier for this trip
When I reached Prineville in the late afternoon, there was no bookstores to be seen, though there were books in one of the windows of the block-long “Neat Repeat” store….
July 23, 2016
A parenthesis… or not
When I left Klamath Falls this morning, the bookstore, Basin Book Traders, was still closed; a lone reader sat on the bench placed outside the strip-mall store. So, I thought, this…
July 21, 2016
Eat, sleep, read, and a talking raven
A hand-written note at the Cloud and Leaf sent me on my next journey: it mentioned the owner of the Cannon Beach Book Co who liked a book so much that she sold it…
Book roamin' 