Herb Martindale's Neat Little Bookshop

Today we came across a newspaper clipping from February 5, 2002 in which Neil Dring, Associate Publisher of the Grand River Sachem, honoured Herb Martindale in an article titled, "At home with Herb Martindale."
Herb opened the first NEAT LITTLE BOOKSHOP in Cayuga, directly across the street from today's bookshop. [We have yet to establish the exact year] Neil captures perfectly Herb's writings, of which he had many, including a long-running column in the Sachem.

"A typical 'Herb' would start out serious with obscure literary and geographical references and then degenerate into a farce. Part of the fun of reading one of Herb's columns was to correctly identify when he had crossed the line."

Neil, the best part of your February 2002 column, of course, is the recognition of The Grand River Sachem's birthday. If I do the math correctly, on February 6th the paper will be one hundred and fifty-five years old. "One of the five oldest weeklies in Ontario" Happy Birthday Grand River Sachem!