McHuston Booksellers

Rare, Collectible, & Otherwise

Tag: bookstores (Page 30 of 107)

I know the unknown magazine model.

March 2, 2015 /

Readers will think she was hired for a photo shoot, but it’s my lovely daughter Kristen gracing the article by Tulsa People Magazine. I’m pretty sure the paragraph identifying her standing in front of McHuston Booksellers and Irish Bistro was accidentally trimmed – for space requirements or something. It is appropriate that she is featured on a festival article, though. Kristen has agreed to help us again this year for the St. Paddy’s fun. The picture was taken outside the bookstore on St. Patrick’s Day last year.

kristenShamRockArticle2

The article on the Tulsa People website has a photo credit, although it almost looks like it is identifying the green-beer-bearing beauty as someone named Debra. That’s a photographer’s credit, and is the name of the organizer of the ShamROCK the Rose festival, who must have snapped the picture at last year’s event. The 2nd Annual festival will happen in the Rose District on the Saturday before St. Patrick’s Day (which falls on Tuesday). Since our shop is located in the Rose District, we’ll get to have two separate days to party!

You can click on the links to see the articles on the TULSA PEOPLE website and on the ShamROCK festival page, since Kristen appears on both.

kristenShamRockArticle

Chef Dustin and Party-President Kristen will be teaming up for some specials for both days, but rest assured – I will not be personally idle. Someone has to come up with a green beer concoction, and they have entrusted that duty to their dad. I plan to take the job seriously.

We sold a lot of Irish Stew at last year’s event (along with a lot of green beers…) and we’re hoping that all of you will come out to sample our Irish fare when that bless’t day o’ days rolls around.

I’m greatly pleased to see Kristen modeling in front of the bookshop, accessorized with a pitcher of Irish tonic. Luckily, she was spared the majority of her father’s genetic makeup and is considerably more photogenic. I do believe her children are not quite as afraid at the sight o’ me as they used to be.

I just wish the magazine or the festival would have identified Kristen. I’m hoping some of her friends will spot the article and share it, which would make an old dad more than a wee bit proud!

The festival is March 14 and – of course – St. Paddy’s Day is on the 17th, but you don’t have to wait until then to – Come Visit!

McHuston

Booksellers & Irish Bistro
Rose District
122 South Main St. Broken Arrow, OK!

Snow Dancers.

February 23, 2015 /

It’s a Snow Angel day, but they are pirouetting here in the bookshop.

Empty parking places in the Rose District at lunchtime…a rare sight. Attributed to the snow and the frigid wind, no doubt. They weren’t ALL empty though, and Chef Dustin and I were able to send out quite a few meals to lunch-time guests today.

aBallet1

Here’s the switch: there is more snow on the ground now (late afternoon) and more cars are lining the street than before. Here in the bookshop, I’m having a little break and a chance to post some pictures of the new sculpture display.

Rose District artist David Nunneley visited the other day and mentioned he was having some floor repair done at his gallery, and as a result was required to move all the displayed artwork out of the way. He wondered if we’d be interested in hosting a few ladies for a week or so, until the work is completed.

aBallet1

Yes, without a doubt!

So the ballet is afoot at the front column in the bookstore, bronze sculptures that were completed by Mr. Nunneley as studies done while undertaking a commission that now graces the Tulsa Performing Arts Center.

It’s one of those times I wish I had some photography skills, but I’m sharing – as best I can – the dancers in their poses atop the wooden pedestals. One of the three has previously visited, and I mentioned in an earlier note how I regretted not taking a photo before she departed.

Well. Take advantage of second chances!

aBallet2

Those of you who may have missed my earlier post and the link to the artist’s website can click HERE for a personal introduction courtesy of DavidNunneley.com. And you get a better look at any image on this page by clicking on it.

He has recently delivered another bronze monument out of state, this time to Colorado, and has a life-sized statute of a noted US Civil War figure in Arkansas, the story of which I hope to share in the near future.

In the meantime, you are invited to come down for lunch and a tour of the temporary bookstore gallery. It’s quick, tasty, and cultured.

In fact, if it gets any artsy-classier, they won’t let me in any more!

The snow is ending, so – Come visit!

McHuston

Booksellers & Irish Bistro
Rose District
122 South Main St. Broken Arrow OK!

From Glow to Snow

February 16, 2015 /

It IS Oklahoma, after all. That’s why we aren’t surprised when there is snow and ice on the ground two days after our short-sleeves stroll-the-sidewalks weather. But is unusual that the snow day coincides with a holiday – President’s Day, in this instance – in which the schools, the banks, the city offices, and past-presidents are all allowed a day off.

Neighborhood streets have that weird mix of snow and ice. The frozen part is underneath and makes for strange traction (or lack of) when driving. Here in Broken Arrow every car and truck is a snow-busting ice cruiser, and every driver knows it. Put the pedal to the metal.

Thanks to Mr. Steve of the City of Broken Arrow and his crews for getting the primary streets drivable. Here is the Rose District there were backhoes and graders whipping back and forth clearing the intersections and parking spaces. I was out for a time and didn’t hear or see any crashing cars.

2_15snow

The bistro kitchen is taking a snow day. Unlike all-day restaurants, we have only a few hours to serve all the food we prepare for lunchtime. And it takes hours to prepare. Tomorrow’s forecast is for clearing streets and warm bowls of Irish Stew.

You can see in the image that a path has been beaten to the front door of the shop. (Actually, scraped with a shovel rather than actually being trampled by footsteps…) Thanks to our next-door neighbor John, who with his wife Kelly operate Glamour Gowns & More: he was out with an implement and some ice-melt.

In nine years on Main Street, there has only been one occasion that the store has been open for business and not a single book was sold. That was four years ago, during the big February blizzard. When I finally got the car out of the driveway and made it to the store, I high-centered on a snowdrift and had to abandon ship right there. After trudging to the door and warming myself inside, I sat at the desk for the better part of two hours doing some work but mostly worrying about the drive home.

I locked up and crept away through mounds of white, after finally working the car out of the snow-locked parking lot.

So by comparison, today is positively tropical. Even as we speak there are folks in the store browsing for books.

A little snow is no match for a genuine book emergency. In this morning’s case, C.S. Lewis and the Chronicles of Narnia, just sent out to a new home. Mission accomplished!

When you are shoveled out, come visit!

McHuston

Booksellers & Irish Bistro
Rose District
122 South Main St. Broken Arrow OK!

« Older posts Newer posts »

© 2024 McHuston Booksellers

Theme by Anders Noren — Up ↑