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Bookstore moving update.

I’ve been fielding calls from folks wondering about the bookstore. If you have questions after reading the article, check at the end for a phone number.

Here’s an update.

McHuston Booksellers is on hiatus, still awaiting completion of the new location at 122 S. Main Street in downtown Broken Arrow. The building sits on the west side of the street between Commercial and Broadway and currently has a storefront awning that says: Francy Law Firm.

The law offices have been removed along with the old wiring and what-not, replaced by new cabling, columns and beams, and light fixtures. The sheetrock starting going up right before Christmas Day.

As with all projects of a similar scope, the completion date is a little bit of a guessing game. In all likelihood, it will come sometime in February. The books and fixtures from the old location are currently in storage, ready to be brought back out when the time comes. Trade accounts are preserved, and will be ready as soon as the store is.

In the meantime, we’ve spent some time nosing around bookstores in Arkansas and Oklahoma, gathering ideas for the grand restart. We’re truly excited about being a part of the emerging Broken Arrow downtown project and hope our customers will be patient while we get things resituated. New customers will – I hope – be pleased at the new addition to the collection of businesses in the pioneer district of downtown Broken Arrow. Our new location will be in a building that was constructed before Oklahoma statehood, but will be as modern as wi-fi and the latest bestsellers.

Look for us soon, at 122 S. Main in Broken Arrow. More questions? Call McHuston: area code 918, then 361 and 7860. (Have to break those up because of computer robo-indexing. The old days were so much easier…)

Thanks for your patience. I hope the new setting will be as surprising for you as it is exciting for us!

McHuston

Some change is the same.

I’m getting to know my youngest grandbaby. I’m memorizing her name and… well, – to be honest – not a lot more. She won’t be born until Friday.

Stork delivery

Things just aren’t the same as they were years ago.

Back then, you couldn’t paint the crib unless you were a gambler with those 50/50 odds of blue or pink.

Names?

You could whittle your list down to two favorites, but there couldn’t be a final decision until, you know – the event. Now, the baby’s identity is already well-known before she is born. If the doctor would just tell us her preference, we could order up and enjoy a piece of her favorite cake, right on her birthday.

Technology has changed some things for us. On the other hand, there are some staples that remain.

My step-son had a hurting tummy on Friday and couldn’t get out of his bed for school. I learned later that a miraculous recovery was affected about three in the afternoon. In fact, his road to recovery was paved with such incredible vim, he was still energetically gaming at his internet-connected ‘Nuke’em to the Stone Age’ at 3am.

In my time, that was diagnosed as ‘school-itus.’

Some things remain the same.

Bam! There I am!

The website article was about a subject that interested me, since I had done a little research on the topic. I could tell the website’s author had done some work as well. I got to the article’s end, and WHAT? There’s my name!

NY Crystal Palace

That was a bit of a surprise, I’ll admit.

It took a couple of seconds, but I figured out the connection. When I was trying to discover some facts regarding an old lighthouse lamp that appeared at first US World’s Fair, I contacted an expert at Cape Hatteras, NC, where one of the early east coast lighthouses was constructed.

In our conversation, it became clear from the surprise in his voice, that he was unaware that the Hatteras lens had appeared at the Crystal Palace, the glass and iron building constructed to house the 1853 exhibition. I sent him some information and images – he sent me what he had – and our path-crossing was complete.

So I thought.

Today, I was doing a little followup work, and a read a webpage that popped up in the search. Not recognizing the header, I read the article about the Cape Hatteras lighthouse lens and the Crystal Palace connection.

A tip o’ the hat to Kevin Duffis for the nice article on the lighthouse, which can be read HERE.

And the acknowledgment at the end is appreciated!

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