1st Edition Closing

I found out last Friday that First Edition bookstore was closing. It plumb depressed me.

As this story indicated the appearance in town of a Barnes and Noble was not helpful.

There's a lot of hot air about the desire for cool cities. Well, if you don't patronize places like 1st Edition, you get Barnes and Noble. If you go to Walmart over other stores you get Walmart and it's attendant acreage and baggage. The list, beat, trend goes on.

If you want a city that can be perceived as cool that has quirky, distinctive local stores like First Edition then you have to patronzie them.

Don't let it happen again!