We try to deal with small publishers who aren't well known. These are wonderful books, but you'll never find them at B. Dalton or Barnes & Noble.

Amazon sends us an e-mail, and we send the books directly to the customer.

We didn't abstain to say 'don't come,' but just because we don't have what we need on the books. We're not saying everything has to look like the Joseph Kershaw house. Heck, no, but the answer isn't 'it's out on I-20 so it doesn't matter.' That's our door to Camden -- it matters more than anything.

The problems is this. We have to go with what is currently on the books, the ordinance. That's our manifest, our boundary.

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.