How the Internet Killed a Harper Lee Christmas Tradition
The front page of today's Montgomery Advertiser is devoted entirely to Harper Lee.
As you might imagine, each and every story on the front page of today’s Montgomery Advertiser is devoted to Harper Lee, who passed away Friday.
In an ironic bit of timing, the independent bookstore that Lee patronized for many years every Christmas, Capitol Book & News, closed in January after 65 years. Today, via one of those three front-page stories, reporter Kym Klass retraces how Lee would sign copies of To Kill a Mockingbird every Yuletide season to help support the store, and why Lee chose to finally end this annual tradition:
Lee would let the Montgomery bookstore know in advance that she was coming – which she did for many years up until about eight years ago after a stroke made her physically unable to travel from her home in Monroeville – and Thomas Upchurch, a store owner, would order hundreds of copies of and offer a private signing in a back...
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