Sachem Article - The Neat Little Bookshop

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Thank you Jill Morison for the excellent article in The Sachem about The Neat Little Bookshop. We are looking forward to having Jill share with us some of her own personal stories. She is well known in journalistic circles and concedes that the opportunity to write good-news stories is exciting.

"Lorna Walker has a neat little bookshop" appeared in the February 15th issue of The Sachem, a weekly based in Caledonia, Ontario. Also available online.

Possibly A "Herbism?"

We'll have a sweet little cafe
In a neat little square,
We'll find our fortune and our happiness there.
We shall thrive on the vain and resplendent
And contrive to remain independent.
We'll have a meek reputation
And a chic clientele.
King's will fall under our spell.
We'll be so zealous
That the world will be jealous.

Bitter Sweet, 1929, Noel Coward, English playwright, author (1899 - 1973)

Have we identifed Herb's inspiration for the name "The Neat Little Bookshop?" In a column in the Grand River Sachem, 2002, Neil Dring establishes that Herb Martindale's Neat Little Bookshop got its name from a Noel Coward play. [Refer "Books Good Books" Feb. 4 blog-post.]

Those who knew Herb will recognize a "Herbism." Herb always leaves us smiling!