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Ted Reinstein Presents \u2013 New England\u2019s General Stores: Exploring an American Classic<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Wednesday, November 6, 7:00 to 8:15 p.m. in the Balfour Room<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Ted Reinstein,\u00a0a reporter for \u201cChronicle,\u201d WCVB-TV\/Boston\u2019s award-winning nightly news magazine since 1997, returns to Attleboro for a presentation on\u00a0his latest book,\u00a0New England’s General Stores: Exploring an American Classic!<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Co-authored with\u00a0Anne-Marie Dorning, an Emmy Award\u2013winning journalist and writer, the book explores how many communities lost this neighborhood institution with the rise of chain stores, big box stores and malls. But a funny thing happened on the way to extinction: a renaissance!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ted will share the rich and colorful history of this iconic institution, how they figured in the rise of early American commerce, why they began to fade, and why — like another New England icon, the diner — they have begun to come back and even be re-invented and re-imagined for a new era! Told with anecdotes from a variety of local landmark stores across the region, the presentation is accompanied by the award-winning photography of Art Donahue.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Books will be available for purchase and signing. Please register at the library website,<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/attleborolibrary.org<\/span><\/a>, <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

to attend this free lecture.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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From the author\u2019s website at<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/tedreinstein.com\/new-englands-general-stores\/<\/a><\/span>:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The general store is literally as old as America itself. It harkens back to a simpler time and a more innocent and rural nation. It conjures a country-like place where kids come in to by penny candy, and adults to buy everything from swaths of fabric, to fresh vegetables, to four-penny nails. It was a place to pick up mail, the newspaper, and perhaps tarry a bit on a cold, winter\u2019s morning to chat over a cup of coffee and a warm wood stove. Long before \u201cCheers,\u201d the general store was the vital and inviting heart of a community, where everyone not only knew your name, but how you took that coffee, how many kids you had, and how\u2019s your dad doing, anyway? And in tough times, it was a place that often treated customers like family, extending credit when no one else would.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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In short, the general store was real-life Norman Rockwell\u2014deeply woven into America\u2019s cultural identity, an integral part of the nation\u2019s self-portrait from its earliest days. But over the last 50 years, many of New England\u2019s general stores, competing with behemoths like Wal-Mart and Target, began to disappear. But then a funny thing happened: people really missed them. And in many towns, decided to hold onto them. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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