Hide Article Text (OCR)
I don't know whether or no youre familler with the Vermont Book Shop, a swinjjin place in metropolitan Middlebury. but they have a lot of LP records down there and a lot of college students from Middlebury College wile away theretime there.Now. its mainly a book store, as you can guess from the title, and they have all these books there — must be thousands and thousands of them including thousands of those paperback books — which 1 guess somebody must buy or they wouldn’t have them there.But the guv who runs the place is a guy by the name of Dike Blair, and he’s kind of a stuffy kind of guy, and he riont know much about the records. He may know more about the books but I wouldn’t know about that. But I have been in there and have asked for a Joan Baez record and Mr. Blair thought her name was “Bias” which I think makes biased against real folk music.As I say, he’s kind of stuffy and tries to act dignified and smokes a pipe most of the time which I guess he thinks makes him look like a college prof but the day I’m talking about was real funny. Square as he is, some how he had caught on to the fact that Bob Dylan’s -records are hot, and that people like Peter, Paul, and Mary, and Joan, and all of them wouldn’t recommend Bob’s recoras unless he really is good. He’s kind of the folk singers’ folk singer, you know.Well, I walk in The Vermont Book Shop this day, and there's Mr, Blair all dressed up to look like Bob Dylan - -blue jeans, squashed motorcycle cap, a jacket like Bob’s — everything but the boots, which I guess he,couldn't find to fit him. cause he was wearing galoshes.There is one thing Bob Dylan and Mr. Blair have in common. and that is they both look sleepy. Mebbe they both are sleepy. Anyway Mr. Blair looked as though he was about to fall asleep as a student was talking to him about soma newspaper they sell there called the New York Review or something which the student was saying gives a bad review to all the books and was going h kill the book business. Blair said it probably would and yawned.Then he started walkin around the store singing “Blowin in the Wind” kind of sad and mournful. He can’t sing. Some girl stopped him and asked whether the “Pooh Perplex” was the book every English Major would find hilarious and then she bought it. though 1 didn't see why a book that would be a Major in the Knglish Army would be something this little girl would buy, but what the heck. Blair said it would enrich her knowledge, and 1 figured it would enrich Blair.selling the book.A bunch of kooky looking students were laughing over a little pamphlet called “The Elephant Book” which has stupid jokes about elephants While 1 was there, three different students ordered this book sent to their sisters or their girls or somebody. What a waste.All these students seem to be buying books to be mailed to somebody. Oqe called “The Living Reed by Pearl Ruck who 1 have heard of. And Blair just kept shuffling around singing. 1 longed for a good, fresh draft of Bob Dylan so 1 went home and played his records. Ahhhhhh.
Newspaper Details
Middlebury Campus
Middlebury, Vermont, US
Thu, Oct 03, 1963
Page 8
Full Page
Clipped by
Anonymous
GB 20 Apr 2023
Other Publications Near Middlebury, Vermont
Middlebury Riddleybum Scaump
Middlebury Muddlebury Crampus
Middlebury Itis
Middlebury College News Letter
Middlebury College News
