Before entering the legal field, Meghan spent time running a restaurant, working at a factory, running a bookstore, trekking over 500 miles of the Appalachian trail, and volunteering in Guatemala, among (many) other things.
HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON -- "Taking Care of Business," exhibition celebrating female entrepreneurs who started businesses like The Enterprise, Fabric Shelf, Feedback Factory and Good Yarns Bookstore in Hastingsthe 1970's.
My father was even known to kick Yankees fans off the trolley he drove six days a week from the Pitkin Movie Palace (now a vegan tattoo parlor) to the Domino Sugar factory (now a lesbian bookstore and laser-tag facility).
Tillman's books of nonfiction and essays include: THE BROAD PICTURE (essays, 1997); THE VELVET YEARS: WARHOL'S FACTORY 1965-67, with Stephen Shore's Factory photographs (1995), BOOKSTORE: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JEANNETTE WATSON AND BOOKS & CO. (1998).
It involves a designer (named Clay, of all things) who loses is job at an odd bagel factory and begins work at an even odder bookstore in San Francisco.
In keeping with its location in a former paper factory, the owners have opened a secondhand English-language bookstore in the back.
His laconic father, fastidious about his clothing and his rectitude, worked as an accountant in a sugar factory; his mother's parents, secular and uninterested in politics, owned a bookstore.
Best of all is Le Lieu Unique, a magnificent belle époque structure that was once an LU biscuit factory and is now a cultural center complete with a bar, a bookstore, a design shop and even a Moroccan-style hammam.
In town on the factory side of the river, enjoy a Prohibition-era cocktail at The Bookstore; a low-ceiling, candlelit speakeasy that is literally hidden behind a bookshelf.
When I'm walking through a bookstore or a library, I feel like a kid at a candy factory!
