Going Home Again: A New Bookstore and Old Memories

Sometimes I joke that I was raised by a library and two sailboats.

That’s not actually true.

I was raised by a library (Tredyffrin* Library to be exact) a couple of sailboats, anda local, independent bookstore.

photo via the Radnor & Wayne Patch network.

The bookstore in question was called The Readers’ Forum and it existed somewhereoutside of time and logic a half milefrom my home. Sam and Al, thetwo guys who ran the place, filled the storewith a fantastic collection of poetry and new fictio...