With eReadership on the rise, local bookshop owners share a passion for the printed word
by Erik Rust
As technological, cultural and marketplace shifts continue, Lexington's used bookstore circuit is thriving and offers a variety of options for shoppers who are just not ready to give up the "tactile thing."
Meredith Willet finds asking women to give up needlepoint is like getting men to put down the golf clubs. That's led her to take hobby from age 6 to two retail stores, a wholesale business and a belt company today.
Commerce Lexington's Access Loan Program has brought the chamber together with 17 local banks to help entrepreneurs in the community find money to start and continue their businesses.
Comedy clubs around the country have hurt since the boom in the 1980s faded, but the last four years at Comedy Off Broadway has made the small room tough to crowd.
