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Vermont Poets End Long Run at Manchester Bookshop
Two of Vermont’s best known booksellers, Margaret and Walter Hard, retire after 36 years of running the Johnny Appleseed Bookshop in Manchester. Frederic F. Taylor, 28, of Winhall, takes over, plans to expand rental library and mail order, keep a literate atmosphere, and invite Walter Hard daily. The Hards’ farewell notes emphasize community ties, literary meetings, and hopes their successor preserves the shop’s spirit while arranging Walter’s papers with the University of Vermont for a lasting collection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nancy Hotl
Manchester
Vermont
Margaret
Walter Hard
Johnny Appleseed
Frederic F. Taylor
Winhall
Worcester
Mass
New York
Middlebury College
Dorothy McCoy
Taylor
Middlesex School
Columbia University
Quetzalcoatl
Johnny
Albert Lawrence
Sunderland
Saturday Review
Margaret Hard
Ruth Hard
Smith College
Jesse
Lippmann
Wiggam
Hard
Louis Untermeyer
Walter
Brattleboro
Stephen Daye Press
Ruth
Columbus Day
Bennington County
Southern Vermont Poetry Society
Robert Frost
Carl Ruggles
Amy Lowell
Edna St. Vincent Millay
James Weldon Johnson
Alexander Woolcott
Harold Ross
Frederic Taylor
Hards
Library of Congress
UVM
Syracuse
Wesleyan
Cornell
Williams
Middlebury
University of Vermont
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Bradford Smith
Seymour T. Bassett
Esther Forbes
Hervey Allen
Manchester Journal
Rutland Herald
Otis