Two times a season, I travel to be able to multiple Mississippi bookstores for College Hit of Mississippi, and I think they usually are the particular the majority of useful havens for bibliophiles in America. Multiple of Mississippi’s cities lack the particular population to be able to support big chain stores. And so from the Slopes to be able to the particular Delta down River Nation to be able to the particular Central Plain from the particular Piney Woods and about to be able to our Gulf Coast, independent bookstores currently have found a a means to thrive and create places in which booklovers congregate. Many of these courageous entrepreneurs share the particular terribly most recent history, secret, fiction, children’s books, and Mississippiana with an eager clientelle. Within the state that brought America William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Walker Percy, Shelby Foote, Tennessee Williams, Willie Morris, Richard Wright, Margaret Walker Alexander, James Whitehead, Ellen Douglas, Elizabeth Spencer, Larry Brown, Frank Stanford, Barry Hannah, Lewis Nordan, Howard Bahr, Steve Yarbrough, Turner Cassity, and Natasha Trethewey (to be able to identity nevertheless a few), anticipate in order to be enriched when you walk from you of these doorways. Each store is an expression of its management, its neighborhood, and its hometown. And so when you usually are down here with you, drop by. This lens is organized alphabetically by city or alternatively town initial, consequently alpha by store identity.
(POSTSCRIPT In Order To BOOKSTORES: In case you usually are not listed here: 1) I’m usually building; 2) I’m happy to be able to hear from you; 3) I’m such as only stores I know sell new books, not really used; 4) I have not visited anyone and have to! And so allow me hear from you: syates @ mississippi.edu)
Bay Books Bay St. Louis
131 Principal Street
Bay St. Louis, MS 39500
228-463-2688
AWESOME NEWS (3.8.2011): NEW OWNER SIGNS About! Kay Gough and her son Edward opened this particular store in Bay St. Louis Soon After Hurricane Katrina smashed and flooded among the coolest of coastal downtowns. And even they earned it an accomplishment. This morning (3.8.2011) we all hear from Kay: “Almost all wise elements should come to be able to an end. Fortunately for anyone, Bay Books will certainly are the number one independent bookstore found on the Gulf Coast! The actual paperwork is every completed, plus the handshakes shook. We usually are pleased to be able to say that the particular bookstore is within the wise hands of Jeremy Burke, a Han xxx County native and St. Stanislaus alum. The actual official changeover is later on this particular month; the particular Farewell and Brand-new Beginning Party is Saturday, March 26. It’s been a privilege in order to be your individual local bookstore.”
For months after Katrina, when business every over the particular coastline appeared and so precarious and disrupted, departing volunteers from every over America who had come to be able to Bay St. Louis to aid folks and conserve the particular town halted in Bay Books and purchased up every photography book about the particular Mississippi coastline that might be had. “We currently have to be able to take this particular household,” they would say. “Nobody will certainly believe you!”
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Maritime & Seafood Industry Museum Biloxi
Edgewater Mall, Highway 90
Near Belk’s Entrance
P.O. Box 1907
Biloxi, MS 39533
228.435.6320
Temporarily relocated within the Edgewater Mall (Hurricane Katrina wiped out the particular authentic location by the particular bridge to be able to Ocean Springs), this particular store has succeeded and so well in its foot traffic that manager Robert Sweeting wonders if perhaps the museum might keep this particular location because a satellite when the particular authentic is rebuilt. The actual staff is building the particular book shelf, that, because anyone would anticipate, involves seafood, Coast history, Coast wildlife, and boating, and new cookbook by the particular museum. Cool ship models and examples of local force and paddle boats, plus driftwood carvings and more.
Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art Store Biloxi
386 Beach Boulevard
Biloxi. Mississippi 39530
228-374-5547
228-436-3641 (Fax)
www.georgeohr.org
I really like the particular cafe plus the wide open feel of this gift idea store with tons of natural light. Books cover you entire wall and they are naturally tied to be able to the particular active exhibitions or alternatively to be able to the particular Coast’s artists. Hurricane Katrina picked up a xxx barge and smashed it from the particular authentic museum in 2005 (a Frank Gehry design!) really a week before the particular grand starting. Now with the store open and exhibits working, a great deal is going about. Manager Stacey Johnson writes: “We currently have a great collection of almost all elements Mississippi—books, esp. related to be able to the particular arts, literature, photography. In addition a fabulous array of MS music and documentaries, and, of course, ART galore!”
Union Street Books Canton
107 N. Union Street
Canton, MS 39046
www.unionstreetbooks.com
601-427-0703
Hooray for new beginnings! Will Grossenbacher graduated from Ole Miss in Might, and purchased a bookstore in June, 2011. Now in just what was the particular older Perlinsky men’s wear store found on the square in Canton, Union Street Books inherited gorgeous lumber cabinetry, the number one spiral staircase in almost any Mississippi bookstore, along with a wide ranging selected selection. The actual new books coming in and showcased up front usually are every about Mississippi or alternatively from Mississippi authors. Will knows really about any activity taking place about Canton’s square, and is absolutely hearing to be able to every customer. He knew just what they sought before I ever earned a suggestion! The actual store has a lengthy wide open layout, excellent reading atmosphere. I’m eager to be able to see in which Will takes this particular endeavor!
Cat Head Delta Blues & Folk Art Clarksdale
252 Delta Ave.
Clarksdale, MS 38614
662-624-5992
www.cathead.biz
Oyaaa! because my dear buddies from Charleston, IL, selected to be able to say. While not a juke (or alternatively jook), this particular joint is funky cool. My face-to-face store stops currently have every been because a customer, commonly touring the particular bluesy Delta with outworlders (like me) doing their blues traveling pilgrimages. A lot of books and blues CDs and DVDs. A required stop, specifically if you need to be able to result in the art in your individual household cooler compared to the particular Home associated with the Blues collection or alternatively decorate with the otherwise inimitable flare associated with the jooks in Birney Imes’ Juke Joint. 2-KOOL 2-BE 4-GOTTEN. This excellent image associated with the storefront is from photo/artist Chuck Lamb.
Delta Blues Museum Clarksdale
1 Blues Alley
Clarksdale, MS 38614
662-627-6820
www.deltabluesmuseum.org
Exactly how can you go wrong with an address these as Amount One Blues Alley? And even appropriate down the particular row is the particular Ground Zero Blues Club; up Delta Avenue is Madidi Restaurant. Exactly what more do anyone need to come to be able to Clarksdale?! Once again this might be a store I’m in more typically because a customer, and I’m telling anyone the particular clerks may take anyone deep into blues history or alternatively bend your individual strings to be able to some thing brand unique being played or alternatively noticed. This store in addition boasts you of my favorite book traveler moments. Carrying up Earl Hooker: Blues Master (warning: piece self-serving plug) I asked the particular clerk how it was selling. “Sold you yesterday,” he states. “Get this particular, the particular cat getting was from Bulgaria.”
Cotton Row Bookstore and Computer Business Cleveland
333 Cotton Row
Cleveland, MS 38732
662-843-7083
Exactly how excellent is it to be able to walk in a store and discover a big wall of territorial wide array because the particular initial ability? But Cotton Row tops that: this particular giant territorial shelf takes up a 3rd associated with the store! Virginia O’Neal knows her town and its authors and habits. Around the particular store, Cleveland’s downtown (that is shaped in a lengthy rectangle as opposed to a square) is spruced up with boutique stores, pubs, and restaurants. We’ve completed business for a long time and multiple authors with Delta origins currently have finalized at Cotton Row. This shot was about a Sunday after a Delta wedding.
Pentimento Clinton
302 Jefferson Street
Clinton, MS 39056
601-925-4662
Proper over from Wyatt Waters’ gallery and about a corner from Cups Coffee, this particular bookstore makes Clinton’s downtown an actually more pleasant stroll. Eclectic new section and savvy selected. Awesome (finalized!) initial editions of Howard Bahr and others. No website yet nevertheless I will certainly post with regards. About a fall day with the doorways wide open and Jefferson street bathed in sunshine, lounge in among the chairs with a suitable book Toni chooses for anyone… consequently I dare anyone to be able to leave!
Tennessee Williams House & Acceptance Center Columbus
300 Principal Street
Columbus, MS 39701-4532
662-329-8765
Throughout the absence of an independent bookstore in Columbus, the particular convention and visitors’ bureau is carefully expanding the particular gift idea store within you space associated with the older rectory, the particular home in that the particular excellent Mississippi playwright spent his early years. And so, bonus!, you are able to tour the particular home, see nifty antiques and buy books by and about not only Williams nevertheless also Faulkner, Welty, and Mississippi classics these as Juke Joint by Columbus’s very own Birney Imes. Be sure to be able to call before anyone come… budget considerations and staff changes might currently have the particular bookstore shuttered nevertheless the particular home open for tours. Ring and discover.
Spice of Lifetime Bookstore Corinth
1801 South Harper Road
Corinth, MS 38834
662-287-9471
BAD NEWS Simply Just Within, CLOSING Could Very Well 31, 2010: This is the particular initial store I ever walked into with a catalog plus the aim to be able to sell books, though not for College Hit of Mississippi. Though my books were from Universiy of Arkansas Hit, though I had no appointment, the particular owner listened happily and courteously to be able to everything I mentioned. This store will certainly usually currently have a sweet put in my heart.
Borders Flowood
100 Dogwood Boulevard
Flowood, MS 39232
601-919-0462
CLOSED. Like every Borders stores nationwide.
McCormick Book Inn Greenville
825 South Principal Street
Greenville, MS 38701
662-332-5038
www.mccormickbookinn.com
ALAS! Soon after 46 years, Hugh McCormick will certainly retire from bookselling November 30, 2011. Please see details found on the site.
In case a library is the particular notice of a university campus, consequently a bookstore may need to be a community’s notice, buzzing with new inspirations and suggestions. A three-hour appointment at McCormick Book Inn might teach anyone a lot more about Greenville compared to multiple a museum. The actual store dedicated significant area to be able to an intriguing and significant collection of local historic newspapers, photographs, documents, posters, every shown with curatorial elan.
Now, the particular store is up for sale: “Property involves land, store building, storage, authentic book smell, famous dust, multi-generational corner cobwebs, Buster the particular store cat. Negotiable items: custom built hardwood fixtures, simple territorial inventory, active site.” See more details at the particular site.
Turnrow Book Co. Greenwood
304 Howard Street
Greenwood, MS 38930
662-453-5995
www.turnrowbooks.com
This is the particular household of you of my book trade heroes, Jamie Kornegay. We both established bookselling in Mississippi at about the particular exact same time, him at Square Books in 1998, and me at UPM in that exact same year. Whenever my wife and I went about Greenwood to aid him move the particular older Dancing Rabbit Books over Howard to be able to the particular new store, he dropped among the most inspirational sentences I currently have ever heard. “Steve,” he mentioned. “I decided this particular upcoming ten years I’m going to be able to work harder compared to any kind of alternative time in my entire lifetime.” With a smile he mentioned it, along with a day’s worth of sweat and grit from moving. This area is spectacular, and with the proximity associated with the Viking Cooking School it is growing a cookbook collection that might rival (no appliance brand puns intended) any kind of within the nation.
Yellow Bike Books Grenada
Village Creek Plaza
1360 Sunset Drive, Ste. 15
Grenada, MS 38901
662-226-6676
This store is appropriate off I-55, taking exit 206 east about Hwy 8 (Sunset Drive) and up the particular hill found on the left. Debbie Mitchell has moved a few of the older books from “Books” over the particular plaza, plus the new carpet, newly painted walls, decor, and shelves usually are warm and pleasing. Chloe, the particular friendliest Maltese in all of Grenada, greets every comers and leads them to be able to shelves of cookbooks, literature and literary Mississippi, many volumes found on the Civil War along with a big children’s section. Debbie left a high-pressure, 24/7 healthcare job when she heard that Grenada (pron. Gren AY da) was going to lose its bookstore. 3 months in, the particular new store appears great, and Debbie carries a line of gift idea lotions and notions. Exactly how lucky for Grenada that Debbie stepped ahead and took the particular bookstore plunge!
Barnes & Noble Gulfport
15246 Crossroads Parkway
Gulfport, MS 39503
228-832-8906
Only east off US Highway 49 and before the particular I-10 interchange because you’re slowing within the traffic approaching Gulfport you are able to see this particular Barnes & Noble. Andrea Yeager and Tim Sutherlin currently have earned this particular a Coast-heavy and Mississippi-friendly selection.
Principal Street Books Hattiesburg
205 Principal Street
Hattiesburg, MS 39401
601-584-6960
www.visitmainstreetbooks.com
Here’s yet another store along with that I grew up in bookselling. Whenever I initial talked with Diane Shepherd she was nevertheless setting up shelves and getting excited when somebody would peek within the window to be able to see just what was taking place. I was really a publicist and promotions manager consequently, setting up signings. We answered a a great deal of queries together, and I don’t know who learned a lot more about the particular business! Now Diane has moved over Principal Street plus the store has great area, many Hattiesburg authors and books about the particular Coast. For a feel inside the particular bookstore, see the particular 7 (not terribly professional!) online videos I took with a flipcam about my previous see. See them at UPM’s vimeo site
B. B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center Indianola
Present Store
400 2nd Street
Indianola, MS 38751
662-887-9539, ext. 226
www.bbkingmuseum.org
Blues books and not simply those about B. B. King predominate here. But you are able to in addition discover the number one new books about the particular Delta, photography, cooking, music, and more. The actual Museum exhibits usually are not to be missed by the particular blues fan, and having been from them over when at present, I would do it every over once again. Get among the bottled waters really for the particular label image plus the cool phrase, “B.B. King: From Indianola to be able to icon.”
Dragonfly Shoppe Jackson
Mississippi Museum of Purely natural Research
2148 Riverside Drive
Jackson, MS 39202-1353
601-354-7303
museum.mdwfp.com
This is The Actual stop for critter geeks (like me and every my nephews and nieces). But the particular store in addition carries Walter Anderson books along with a wise selection of Mississippiana beyond natural history.
Jubilee Bookstore Jackson
Jackson State College
Ayer Hall
1400 Lynch Street
Jackson, MS 39217
601.979.3935
It’s excellent to be able to receive in found on the ground floor, nevertheless that older clich literally will not work here (see pic!). Now expanding (really changing may be the particular better word) found on the second floor of Ayer Hall within the Margaret Walker Alexander Analysis Center is The actual Jubilee Bookstore. Director Robert Luckett plans about carrying titles in African American studies, Civil Rights studies, African American fiction and poetry, and of course books by Margaret Walker Alexander and books in our series in honor of her, The actual Margaret Walker Alexander Show in African American Research. This is NOT the particular campus bookstore, nevertheless some thing revived and new. Call for hours and information and facts.
Lemuria Jackson
202 Banner Hall
4465 I-55 North
Jackson, MS 39206
601-366-7619
www.lemuriabooks.com
My hometown bookstore, a mobile quantity I currently have memorized, along with a book area I am thankful for every day. I grew up within the Missouri Ozarks, and allow me tell anyone, it would currently have been heavenly to be able to currently have had a store these as Lemuria in my authentic hometown. I knew about Lemuria before I ever set foot in it or alternatively sold a book to be able to its staff. Whenever Rick Bass visited the particular College of Arkansas Creative Authoring Program, he told you he was a writer because John Evans at Lemuria handed him Jim Harrison’s LEGENDS ASSOCIATED WITH THE FALL and mentioned, “Here. Anyone should read this particular.” Now that is bookselling! Tons of occasions, photos found on the wall of hundreds of literary lights, initial edtions, a seemingly endless selection of contemporary fiction… this might be among the cardinal bookstores associated with the South.
Mississippi History Store Jackson
200 North Street
Jackson, MS 39201
601-576-6933
mdah.state.ms.us/museum/shop.php
While the particular Old Capitol is being fixed from Hurricane Katrina damage, the particular Mississippi History Store is sharing books about history, art, literature, and Mississippi from the attractive Winter Archives building. In addition an ideal feature: in the event you cannot make it to be able to Ocean Springs to be able to the particular Walter Anderson Museum Present Store or alternatively Realizations, this particular store has cards and prints from Anderson and multiple others. Do call for status… renovations and budget cuts in Mississippi currently have brought the particular store to be able to close at present and once again.
Mississippi Museum of Art Store Jackson
Mississippi Museum of Art
380 South Lamar Street
Jackson, MS 39201
601-965-9939
www.msmuseumart.org/catalog_c166283.html
Soon after you have spotted the particular giant paintings by Bill Dunlap and photographs by Eudora Welty, you are able to take books household and keep a piece associated with the art forever. Awesome cards drawn from the collection and many stationary products, nevertheless the particular manager in addition keeps many Eudora Welty about hand and books by alternative Mississippi writers. The actual store carries a a great deal of Walter Anderson books, because well as books found on the Wolfes, Hollingsworth, Dunlap, Barthe, and multiple other excellent Mississippi artists.
Barnes & Noble Madison
1000 Highland Colony Pkwy Ste 3008
Ridgeland, MS 39157
601-605-4028
While my tag here states Madison, the particular send goes to be able to Ridgeland. About Interstate 55 really north of Jackson it is difficult to be able to tell when you currently have barreled previous Jackson into Ridgeland into Madison. And so slow down! Donna Humphries and staff currently have an expansive store with a mind toward local representation. If you need certain Mississippi, they make sure it is here.
Cover-to-Cover Natchez
401 Principal Street
Natchez, MS 39120
601-445-5752
www.c2cbooks.com/?page=shop/index
Charles Hall has a few of the hardest to be able to find books about Natchez plus the River. Along with a attractive facade in among the prettiest downtowns found on the world. See picture below (vainly I’ll say the particular shot was too wise to be able to make tiny).
Old South Trading Post Natchez
200 North Broadway
Natchez, MS 39120
1-866-440-5354
No checkout counter here to be able to afford maximum products, and so every purchases, every commerce sings from the narrow garret Jonathan Wood roams and rules within the back of this super stocked tourist haven. His mighty, melodious voice greets every comers with a Happy hi, and, Here’s what’s new. I defy a customer to be able to leave with buyer’s remorse after his happy greeting or alternatively exclamation of Exactly what a perfect choice, she’ll really like that! And even I couldn’t resist a tastefully designed tee-shirt that read Natchez, Mississippi, established 1716. 1716! For books, the particular Old South Trading Post keeps Civil War, Mississippi and Louisiana cook books, photography gift idea books, ghost story books, and southern travel guides. A mailed newsletter goes to be able to 18,000 every quarter. This store is found on the bluff side of Broadway within the exact same depot building that houses an outlet associated with the amazing Mississippi catfish restaurant, xxx associated with the Walk.
Turning Pages Books & More Natchez
520 Franklin Street
Natchez, MS 39120
601-442-2299
www.turningpagesbooks.net
You of my favorite driving circuits is to be able to blaze over to be able to Vicksburg and see Lorelei Books, consequently cruise down the particular Blues Highway US 61 from Port Gibson and about to be able to Natchez, in which Mary Emrick and excellent Natchez books await. Greg Iles finalized duplicates and many literary Mississippi here, plus an enormous shelf of Civil War books and every Natchez household and architetcture book waiting for Spring and Fall Pilgrims. This store is because cozy because a warm cup of tea, and boasts a mascot named Glucose (see mascot photos below), who will certainly sleep about your individual coat without your individual actually wanting to ask.
Realizations Ocean Springs
1000 Washington Avenue
Ocean Springs, MS 39564
228-875-0503
walteringlisanderson.com
In case you have not been to be able to Ocean Springs, drop just what you’re doing and hit the particular road at present. A particular specifically excellent time in order to be indeed there is during the course of the particular Peter Anderson Festival when the particular streets usually are flowered with craft vendors and every the stores and restaurants usually are bustling. This store will certainly explain to you books about Anderson’s work and provide lots to be able to take household from this particular unforgettable seaside village.
Walter Anderson Museum Store Ocean Springs
510 Washington Avenue
Ocean Springs, MS 39564
228-872-3164
walterandersonmuseum.org
The actual initial experience of Walter Anderson’s art is transformative for anybody who has visited this particular museum. You may leave and see motion and power in nature these as anyone never beheld before this particular encounter. Go here! Afterward stop at the particular store and take some thing household to be able to return anyone to be able to Anderson’s vision in case the particular Globe gets too much to you.
Square Books Oxford
160 Courthouse Square
Oxford, MS 38655
662-236-2262
www.squarebooks.com
Looking out found on the square that Benjy Compson was driven round to be able to calm him and in which and so many alternative scenes William Faulkner described come alive, this particular store is one of the particular gems, and like Lemuria a cardinal store associated with the South. With OffSquare Books and Square, Jr. running appropriate about the particular corner, you might book browse all day long in just what Square provides, and nevertheless return to be able to find undiscovered nuggets the particular staff is sharing in sections because far ranging because poetry, photography, and philosophy. Only down Courthouse Square usually are 2 more iterations of Square Books, Off Square and Square Junior. Off Square contains literary magazines, selected books, plus the event area. Square Junior is a fantastic children’s store. Whenever I previous visited I counted 2 strollers within the store and 3 more found on the technique in, along with a great deal of happy faces.
Pass Christian Books Pass Christian
212 East second Street
Pass Christian, MS 39571
228-452-7399
www.passchristianbooks.com
www.passbooksonline.com
Extremely sad news these days (2.4.2011). Rich Daley, who ran Pass Christian for a long time, died after an abrupt illness. He was 52. Throughout remembrance, he would appreciate donations to be able to the particular Humane Society of South Mississippi. The actual site is still up, nevertheless I don’t know about the particular store’s future. Will report more when for sale.
Whenever this particular store founded its site, I was inspired to be able to create Mississippi Literary Links at UPM’s site, and observing the particular site once again I’m inspired. Scott Naugle and Rich Daley lost their store to be able to Katrina, right after which, crazy courageous, they re-opened and currently have vowed to be able to keep at it, whether or not at the particular active location or alternatively some thing new. Suitable coastal selection and fine general reading with a desire for what exactly is new and what exactly is Mississippi. Scott Naugle writes excellent book product reviews within the SOUTHERN REGISTER plus the SUN-HERALD. By the particular technique, the particular town included here is pronounced Pass Chris cheean. Barely touch the particular “t” or alternatively really skip it.
Dancing Rabbit Hit Gallery Philadelphia
402 East Beacon Street
Philadelphia, MS, 39350-2954
601-650-1999
www.dancingrabbitpress.com
Proper found on the square in storied Philadelphia, this particular store puts the particular focal in local. Browsing its shelves is a lot like starting a choice famous quarterly; let’s call it The actual Neshoba County History and Civil War Review. Here you are able to not only browse a fine selection of books about Mississippi, the particular Choctaw, Philadelphia, Neshoba County, nevertheless you are able to see local art found on the Civil War and found on the local landscapes, touch piece associated with the mortar shell that smashed from Pemberton’s headquarters at Vicksburg… experiential book shopping gauranteed!
Book Mart Starkville
120 E. Principal Street
Starkville, MS 39759
662-323-2844
Throughout downtown Starkville along a developing row of restaurants (such as the particular authentic Mugshots), Book Mart has you entire space of Mississippi State gear, along with a larger area dedicated to be able to trade books, mysteries, romances, and many territorial books. Foot traffic was really good found on the Thursday when I previous visited. This store is associated with the Campus Book Marts, plus the downtown outlet does carry course texts, and at present qualities a cafe and bakery! The actual store works closely with its customers—in you appointment I counted 2 specialized purchase choose ups and you also known as in. In case you are hunting for any kind of published creator from the Golden Triangle (Columbus, Starkville, Tupelo, West Point), this might be the particular put. I found books by local authors from our deep, deep backlist!
Barnes & Noble Tupelo
The actual Mall at Barnes Crossing
1001 Barnes Crossing Road #104
Tupelo, MS 38804
662-791-7868
Aren’t we all getting big-time with 3 Barnes & Nobles within the state! Scott and Starr work overtime to ensure their store has a solid Northeast Mississippi taste. Beware the particular Nook sales kiosk at front, specifically in the event you bring a gadget geek to you. You may be hooked into Nooking by a happy, gregarious Tupelo retailer! Bypass and head directly for the particular territorial section.
Reed’s Gum Tree Bookstore Tupelo
111 South Spring Street
Tupelo, MS 38801-4811
662-842-6453
www.reedsgumtreebooks.com
Reed’s Department Store in hopping downtown Tupelo (I’m not kidding, excellent restaurants, cool pubs, nifty music and art stores, great automotive museum, Elvis’s birthplace has a whole lotta shakin goin on) is a classic, and Reed’s Gum Tree bookstore is piece of just what makes it excellent. John Grisham signs new books at only a very few stores within the nation—Lemuria, Square Books, Turnrow, and Reed’s usually are among the particular lucky. About my recent see, Grisham had really been in and indeed there was a steady flow of buyers selecting up finalized duplicates of his most recent, 2500 duplicates in 2 days.
Village Green Book Store Tupelo
1210 West Principal Street
Tupelo, MS 38801
662.842.8541
Waiting found on the owner at my initial see to be able to this store, I heard some thing that earned me like to stay for hours. Throughout walked a customer, and among the sales personnel hollered out, “Suitable afternoon, Mr. Kim.” Now that’s local, independent bookselling! Jim Troxler happens to be selling books in Tupelo for thirty years, and has spotted every way of changes within the market. Village Green qualities a deli, that is swamped at the particular lunch hr, along with a great selection of gifts, such as Mississippi State and Ole Miss products, domestically manufactured candles, cards. The actual book selection is terribly attentive to be able to Tupelo’s corner associated with the state. You might walk from here with over a book!
Lorelei Books Vicksburg
1103 Washington Street
Vicksburg, MS 39183
601-634-8624
www.loreleibooks.com
And even anyone thought Vicksburg was absolutely nothing nevertheless xxx plus the battlefield. Take a feel downtown and you’ll find upcoming to be able to the particular Attic Gallery a bookstore that makes getting local its mantra and your individual reward. Anything and everything about the particular River, Vicksburg, steamboats, the particular siege, it’s here or alternatively Laura Weeks will certainly discover out about it for anyone. And, she has gathered literature and actually poetry—she was advocating a new discovery, the particular poetry of Murray Shugar when I was previous in. Ask her about who she’s reading! A truly pleasing area.
Old Court Home Museum Store Vicksburg
Old Court Home Museum
1008 Cherry Street
Vicksburg, MS 39183
601-636-0741
www.oldcourthouse.org
How’s this particular for history? Jefferson Davis delivered his initial political speech found on the east courthouse procedures (pictured). Within the cupola at top, a who’s who of Confederate generals watched in dread because the particular Union gunboat fleet swung into firing range. And even Ulysses S. Grant resolved his victorious troops from the west facing staircase. Dominating much associated with the initial floor, the particular Old Court Home Museum Store has every kinds of new books about the particular city, the particular river, plus the siege. And even it carries reprints of classics, and many local luminary and former curator Gordon Cotton’s books. The actual minimal fee for museum entry is abundantly rewarded within the Confederate, Pioneer, Objet d’ Art, along with other curated display rooms.
Vicksburg National Military Park Store Vicksburg
3201 Clay Street
Vicksburg, MS 39183
601-634-6286
Talk about getting your individual history at the particular source. Here’s a bookstore with a super helpful and knowledgeable bookstore manager and park rangers about hand. As well as its built found on the hallowed ground associated with the 47-day siege. Walls of Civil War books, everything anyone could desire found on the siege, its commanders, armies, soldiers, civilian cave lifetime, the particular Eads gunboats. In case you wish only to be able to drop into the particular store, anyone do not currently have to be able to pay the particular park fee, though the particular monuments and driving tour usually are spectacular.