We were horrified to learn of the proposal by the administrators of Vermont State University to eliminate physical books from the institutions they lead.
Hobart Book Village, the only book town east of the Mississippi, is not too far away, in the northern Catskills. It’s a bucolic, blink-and-you-miss-it hamlet of fewer than 500 souls that was reinvented as a book village in 2005 through the efforts of local entrepreneur, Don Dales.