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| Eddy Nix and Kurt Zimmerman loading up Z book cruiser |
I’m seated in an outhouse thinking fondly of antiquarian booksellers. The outhouse is complete with wood board butt rest, bucket of sawdust for odor control, and a guest book. Book hunting can certainly lead to unexpected situations.
The outhouse is the inexplicable sole restroom for an otherwise fabulous, dodecagon (twelve-sided) home nestled on acreage in the beautiful Driftless region near Viroqua, Wisconsin. Driftless refers not to a land of unmotivated wanderers, but to a geographic area that lacks glacial deposits known as drift. The gorgeous landscape is composed of deep river valleys, steep hills, forest, spring-fed waterfalls, and cold-water trout streams intermixed with scattered farms.
I’ve spent the last three days in Viroqua in Driftless Books culling five boxes of goodies from the remnants of the reference collection of legendary Berkeley, California bookseller Peter Howard. Nicole has gathered four boxes of books related to Frank Lloyd Wright from another uncatalogued stash.
