FIND OLD FLORIDA IN CEDAR KEY
We found good ramped
access to Dilly Dally Gally, a typical seaside tourist gift shop with a corny
name that makes us grimace when we repeat it.
But the tidy shop offers everything
from cheesy souvenirs to some top quality items worthy of impressing picky
friends and relatives.
Our favorite place to shop
is inland, at the corner of Second and D streets on a corridor that features
artists and local shops in a series of historic buildings.
Curmudgeonalia is the last
of the great, little independent book stores.
They also sell a few sundries for
the locals and souvenirs for the vacationers.
But the emphasis is on
literature.
There may be a few beach reads, but this little shop packs an
impressive inventory of first-rate fiction and non-fiction from current to
classics.
The owner, a retired
physician from up north, is indeed a Curmudgeon who is all too happy to share
his pointed political views directing you to the shelf with local books – such
as (put in the name of the Cedar Key historical book that I bought).
What the
proprietor lacks in appreciating opposite political views, he gains in helping
wheelers to bump over the single step into his book store and by having wide,
maneuverable aisles.
STORY CONTINUES TOMORROW -- APRIL 8
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