Announcing Our Summer 2022 Partner Bookstore! Gibson’s of Concord, NH (Part Two)
by Ann Kjellberg, editor
Gibson’s owner Michael Herrmann cutting the ribbon on Gibson’s cafe opening for in-person customers last year
Read Part One of this post here!
The presence of a bookstore in town broadens the community’s engagement with ideas. Concord has thriving local journalism, and local outlets regularly report on visiting authors and other events—redressing a bit the calamitous loss of books coverage in local newspapers (one of the reasons we started Book Post). The return of local authors to the local store, like Meredith Tate, who went to Concord High and whose father still lives locally in the house she grew up in, and who set a novel published by Penguin on the streets of the city, ties local readers to the real-life prospect of a life in books. Local institutions reinforce each other. The Concord Monitor reported on an event at Gibson’s celebrating Paul Brogan’s memoir of a lifetime working in Concord’s hometown movie theater. The Monitor said, “This story is about more than the Main Street movie house that spent sixty-one years occupying a special place in the community. It’s about how the movies brought people together.”
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