What sets local bookshops apart from the rest? The answer is different for everyone, but here are the elements I find keep me coming back to local bookshops time and again.
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Outside of networking groups, there are not half as many in person forums as what was available to us as kids. As I encourage myself to get back out there to reestablish faded friendships and create new ones, I found myself at a loss of how to go about it. I have felt more awkward than ever, often at a loss of what to say or forgetting my thoughts mid-sentence.
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From book banning to Confederate monuments, preserving history, what it means and looks like, is under debate nationally. In the southern town of Macon, Georgia, the home of the first woman in the world to obtain a legitimized college degree in 1840 from Wesleyan College is about to be demolished. Does the home of Catherine Brewer Benson have a place in our present?
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Most books are ones we read in solitude and select with little regard to others’ opinions. The coffee table book, however, is of quite a different nature. These selections are inviting, intending to be perused (or at least skimmed) by guests and residents alike. Perhaps they are chosen as a way to say something about yourself. Or maybe their presence can help you discern something about others. Either way, the coffee table read is a statement.
This week, we will take a peek inside the homes of some amazing southern women who share their selections with us.
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Politics has become so theatrical, it seems we’ve all forgotten it is intended to be functional. It has been said before that there is no Republican or Democratic way to take out the trash, but I think we could all stand to hear it again. Partisanship has served as yet another tool to divide the American public against one another. Like most other tools in that box (gender, race, and religion, to name a few), it is a superficial contrast to the substance of the human struggle. Yet it has served powerfully in its purpose of preventing people from realizing their shared needs and collective power.
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