Rural Wisconsin "book shop" (CBS News)
From CBS News:
By Bill Geist
CBS Sunday Morning, May 11, 2008
Down County Road K in Markesan, Wis., Lloyd and Leonore Dickmann -- a farmer and retired college professor -- have a used bookstore they estimate has a million books. There are no billboards to lead you there, no signs directing you down the driveway. Yet people come. This all started simply enough, with Lenore's small book collection which, somehow, grew big enough to fill a bookstore. So they opened one. But Leonore kept buying books and they outgrew the store too. So they moved it into a larger building right on the farm. And when they had too many books for their space on the farm, Lloyd decided to empty the silo that held cow droppings and, somehow, because Leonore wanted to, they turned it into a castle that's now filled with books. In fact, they now have books in more than a dozen buildings on their farm.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1998/07/09/sunday/main13562.shtml
By Bill Geist
CBS Sunday Morning, May 11, 2008
Down County Road K in Markesan, Wis., Lloyd and Leonore Dickmann -- a farmer and retired college professor -- have a used bookstore they estimate has a million books. There are no billboards to lead you there, no signs directing you down the driveway. Yet people come. This all started simply enough, with Lenore's small book collection which, somehow, grew big enough to fill a bookstore. So they opened one. But Leonore kept buying books and they outgrew the store too. So they moved it into a larger building right on the farm. And when they had too many books for their space on the farm, Lloyd decided to empty the silo that held cow droppings and, somehow, because Leonore wanted to, they turned it into a castle that's now filled with books. In fact, they now have books in more than a dozen buildings on their farm.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1998/07/09/sunday/main13562.shtml
posted by eric model | 5:25 AM
3 Comments:
is there a way to contact them, learn more about the shop,or get directions... Do they have a website?
LEONORE IS AN EXCITING AWSOME PERSON WHO HAS A BOOK STORE THAT YOU WILL FIND TO BE LIFE CHANGING - IT IS AN EVENT TO GO THERE AND YOU WILL FIND YOURSELF STAYING FOR HOURS. dON'T WAIT - THIS IS A ONCE IN A LIFETIME PLACE TO EXPERIENCE
dISCIPLE 1
Arkdale Books
W1778 Cty Rd K
Markesan WI 53946
Lloyd/Leonore Dickman
920-398-3375
Don't ask me how I found them. I missed the blurb on them on CBS Sunday News
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