Maple Street Book

In 1965 I bought my 1st book from Maple Street Book Shop. It was 50 Poems by e.e. Cummings and I still have it. Mary Kellogg and her sister Rhoda Norman opened the store earlier in the year, and the bookmarks boasted Five Rooms of Paperbacks, something the city of New Orleans never had before, a shop committed to stocking the greatest and latest in paperback books. Before the year was out, the book shop was best known for something other than its growing stock and willingness to special order books.