Blackout 2003: Independent Booksellers a Beacon in the Dark
Maybe somebody up there likes independent booksellers. Or maybe it was simply a coincidence that the majority of Northeastern booksellers who spoke to BTW about last Thursday's blackout explained that -- while all around them other business owners fumbled through the dark -- for reasons sometimes unknown, their lights never went out. And for one night, these independent bookstores were not only a symbolic, but also a literal, beacon of light in their communities.