This post is a long time coming, but hopefully worth waiting for. The first thing I must say about the trip is that it would have been made infinitely better if Anna and I were brilliant pop-lockers. Even now, almost a month later, I can think of nothing that would have more disturbing to our blue-blood vacay companions than the two of us pop-locking down the main street of Chatham, MA.
As Anna explained in her account of our vacay, there was a great deal of time spent enjoying the atmosphere of the Cape's public libraries and used and new book stores. I took the opportunity to "tweet" about some of the more exciting incidences of print culture I encountered during our trip. The irony of sending text messages to a microblog page while sitting in a public library surrounded my books (perhaps the antithesis of microblogs) was not lost on me, instead it felt at times seductively subversive. Among the print culture great finds (courtesy of Anna) was a Biblophile Shelf located in the corner of the "Where the sidewalk ends" bookstore.
Beautiful books from this shelf include: Men of Letters and People of Substance as well as Off the Page. Below is a picture of Anna, ecstatic over our stimulating visit to WTSE. I should add that like well-trained ex-college students, we drank our fair share of the free coffee offered at this bookstore.
The coffee comment makes me think about our food adventures during this visit, but I think they deserve their own post. I'll leave you instead with two incidences of peculiar signage from the New England landscape, the second one will be a good segue for my upcoming post on our food adventures.
I'll be back soon. Off to catch some sun rays.
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