Or, I may buy a few more apple cider donuts or sweet potatoes.
If a purchase results, know that the tax collector in Newport, New Hampshire, may get a pleasant surprise. There is no charge for the therapy of browsing, folks, so find my sites and stay awhile. I try to describe such, and sometimes have too much fun as I poke along. Do I specialize in particular genres? I thought I did, but my barn has lots of Geezer-built shelves, and we have many interests, so topics vary, as do book conditions and editions. Since I have the smallest brain (by unpopular vote), I am the Head Hedgehog.
At Hedgehog Enterprises, I do "Words & Pictures by & for Folks with Prickly Backs, Soft Bellies, & Small Brains", established in 1991. Myself? Well, I am also a photographer, journalist, curious stuff collector, avid reader, writer, editor, small-time publisher, and online pontificator. Some folks simply tooled down our dirt road and left boxes on our porch. Inventory has mounted: my mother downsized her 7,000-plus library, and we (my Geezer and I) went to library book sales, yard emporiums on weekends, estate dispersals, and added the books my kids left behind, wanting to stock their own shelves anew. I am still learning, and I am having a good time with the random avalanches of books to be recycled into good homes, one by one.
Nonetheless, she turned me loose when she felt I would not embarrass her she was impressed, finding I actually knew something about books and authors and styles. She encouraged my free help but was wary of sharing all those secrets. Beginning in 2001, I apprenticed myself with a longtime pro in the next town, hoping to learn her secrets. Hedgehog's Whimsey Books was born in a random moment when I decided to become a used books seller.
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