What are you reading now?

[Jim Page]

Indeed it was - that place is huge!

Not only was Haslem's huge-- an entire city block-- but the staff there was so helpful. At that time, I was trying to make a living as a writer, and they found so many obscure books for me that I had failed to find anywhere else.

Do you recall what happened to the original owners, Mr. and Mrs. Haslem? It was terrible. Several of the Haslem children worked in the store and had treated their parents to a safari to Africa for their 50th wedding anniversary, if I remember it all correctly. The old couple caught some hideous disease there and died!

Awful!

Roger, do you live anywhere near Naples? I seem to remember you saying in a post that you were going to dinner on Captiva or Sanibel Island. I grew up in Naples and my brother still lives there. He was the EMS director for Collier County for many years and recently retired.

--Jim