There is no Frigate like a Book
     To take us Lands away
Nor any Coursers like a Page
     Of prancing Poetry ~
This Traverse may the poorest take
     Without oppress of Toll ~
     How frugal is the Chariot
 That bears the Human Soul!

~ Emily Dickinson (Dec. 10, 1830 - May 15, 1886) American poet

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NEAT L'L BOOKSHOP

 

 

 

The Neat Little Bookshop will be ten years old on Mother's Day weekend.*  Thoughts and memories flood our minds ~ the people we have met and the subjects that we have explored.

There have been many special events but most satisfying has been the flow of fascinating personalities ~ folks who are the very essence of The Neat Little Bookshop.

Thank you for an exciting ten years!


*And that is not counting the years that the original owner, Herb Martindale, published limericks and presided over the first Neat Little Bookshop on Cayuga Street where Progressive Music Studio is now.

[Photo: Wed., May 7/14  lbw]

Talbot St. & Cayuga Street

A Lot of Action ~

Businesses are OPEN !

Talbot St. & Hwy 54

Talbot St. West

[Photos:  Wednesday, May 7 lbw]

Fishin' in York Park ~ The Grand

Signs of Spring ~

Whatnot ~ watnot "Is that what it is called?"

1. (usu. preceded by and) other similar items (a drawer full of paper, pens and whatnot) 
2. an unspecified or trivial thing.
3. a stand with shelves used for keeping or displaying small objects

~ Canadian Oxford Dictionary

With generations, come word changes.  The whatnot is one of those words.  The American Oxford Thesaurus perhaps has the only relevant word:  what-d'you-call-it, or whatchamacalitit ~! (a contraption; gadget; gimmick; thing or instrument.)