And new and discount books and although our specialty is scholarly and University Press books in hand we also have these books you see outside here, our sales press modeled after our state used bookstores auto bookshop in south massachusetts, thats known for its outdoor sales press and shelves and so we were pleased to be able to have a safe, grown into this space from other buildings and we are delighted we had a state and our failed bargain cars out to the republicans shot. When you come to the midtown seller bookstore, there are possible bookstores that are in innovative theaters, you havent seen one quite like this. We are delighted to have a copy shop in a bookstore, its what we are really excited about in this space because coffee shops in bookstores and dissemination of news and space have such a long history. As the historian , i have studied a lot about the culture, the public here, the food culture and conversations that happen in coffeehouses and by having beverages along with books that we read to really enliven conversation that people have when they come into the state, he also have a lot of gift qualities, special collections and rare imprints, these beautiful books that have bindings from the Franklin Library collection and also wide local interestselection, this is just a small snapshot of it. Within the store we have history books here, paul revere, social generalist who his essays have been collected. These are the highlights of a very wide located interest in regional History Collection we offer as well. So you coming to the main space of the store, this is our main stage area and the characters change over the time of day and day of the week so we might have a check club here on a wednesday morning or bookshelf is on saturday afternoon for our friday night, the tables and chairs will clear away and we will have a concert or a book talk. Books in this area are our famous process selection, classic books of literature but also biographies and letters and Nonfiction Research that complements that famous offers that that section is over growing, we try to keep ourselves to a 100 but we had more shelves to that and we had to famous authors all the time so we have several other famous author sections within these areas and then these bookshelves or the mezzanine which has literary criticism and literature, lots of scholarly books but also a cool array of general interest titles. That section of the store, we recently are shifting the shelves around to make even more space for our black History Collection. We have purchased the entire shopfloor for one of the powerful stores and theres a fabulous art section which was bringing into this space and then if you look also around, in addition to this big area that is coffeehouse seating, you have a mural here and this is a mural that we commissioned to hang on the outside of our original location which was a few blocks down the street and its a long, narrow 1950s scene with a concrete wall and we wanted to come enhance it with art and turn the shop outward to the community and we had a local artist who came up with the idea of a mural that was through time and space. So its both historical and almost imaginary. Its certainly a theater, the rafters and theater these days, the shops as a structure, stationed in the 1950s, terrazzo, great 1950s pennsylvania steel beams that are the structure of this support, all the tens of thousands of books on them so we are pleased to be reusing that Department Store for a modernday use of the community. After that we looked at the art history books and more rare books downstairs. The level to the American History floor, thats really have other local interests here so we have everything from historical prints of pennsylvania and other midatlantic areas to early maps and guidebooks, legal journals, all manner of local interest materials and finally, down below you go underground and thats where the majority of our nonfiction collection resides and in the long narrow aisles as you might imagine. We are in the basement of the midtown seller bookstore in harrisburg where in our rare book room we are surrounded by antique bookcases filled with books, some of which are 500 years old. Behind you weve got just shelves and shelves of books found in vellum in the 1500s and 1600s, weve got a wonderful collection of 17th and 18th century english and european imprints, a copy of Samuel Johnsons dictionary by me, the first dictionary in english language. We have a lot of 19thcentury literature, 20thcentury literature, First Edition jules vern and i looking at their end just a wonderful collection. We also have original engravings and prints from the 19th century. Its a rare book and print room and we even have original artists from illustrators that live in the area and work in the area and is wonderful, well worth the visit. I could pick all sorts of things from the shelves around us but i thought it might be interesting from a book tv stand point to look at books that were published in harrisburg. Probably not something your viewers think a lot about. You think of pennsylvania you probably think of german printers or immigrant printers that came to the United States to set up shop. Many of them came to the capital of pennsylvania and started Printing Presses here and not far from this very book room, gigantic or repressed buildings and they are all around the city of harrisburg. I chose this selection of books that i thought represented chronologically the history of publishing in harrisburg and would be interesting so i have in my hands what i believe is the first book published in harrisburgpennsylvania. A little bit about the history of harrisburg , harrisburg was founded by a man named john harris who set out a trading post along the susquehanna river. Is Sean John Harris junior is the one responsible for laying out these streets and eventually coaxing the capital of pennsylvania to come to harrisburg. Before harrisburg was called harrisburg it was called lewisburg, after the revolutionary war in honor of the french. The capital where the location eventually became was called lewisburg and the counties we are in still to this day is holding county so by publishing this, sort of the first book in harrisburg and also using the name harrisburg you begin to see the sort of name claim for the city. You will see in this which is 1796 the harrisburg is spelled with an h. All these books in the stack were published by a journeymen printer named john white and he was originally from new england. He brought this Printing Press to harrisburg after having gone down and set it up in the french county and saturday in the 1790s, if you know anything about the history there was the sceneof a great slave rebellion. Complete rebellion that led a lot of french immigrants to move back into harrisburg and back into pennsylvania in the United States. It is something for him to have written or published a book called depth of vision after having survived the great rebellion which he witnessed. He also formed the first newspaper in harrisburg called the oracle of dolphin, imagine the newspaper called the oracle. And he set up shop right across the street from the City Government center today. So an interesting character , hes perhaps best known for polishing two types of nonfiction books which were the best sellers in the 19th century. If you leave aside Science Fiction novels and bibles, religious tracks, the two bestselling nonfiction genre is in the 19th Century America, do you know what they were . Cookbooks, music books. Especially in the house and wyatt was also known for publishing german and english. These wonderful, wonderful musical hymnals in the readers which sold in the hundreds of thousands. Very early on. After wyatt set up his other printers came to the city and did their own printing. This is an example. Of the book, published right after the war of 1812, printed in harrisburg and you see for lost the age so maybe wyatt was responsible for the older selling but now modernized it. It was interesting about this book is it really, the first book that was formed in the mennonite church, published in america. We are in interesting area, er in mennonite country in pennsylvania. Yet we are the capital of pennsylvania. One of the things advocated in this book was that people should stay away from the political process. The voting, partaking in politics in any way. And yet here it is being published in our highly contentious lyrical capital right after the war of 1812. Harrisburg becomes the capital in 1812 and is the capital of sea of governments, had a lot of englishspeaking folks, john harris speaks english but you also have a mennonite and a baptist german speaking tradition, largely farmers. And that is still very much evident in pennsylvania today. It was always a little bit of tension between urban city of harrisburg and surrounding Rural Communities even though harrisburg at the time was very just the downtown and was surrounded by farms everywhere you can see. So thats sort of the history of printing in 19th century harrisburg , as we moved to the 20th century, the city undergoes a movement called the City Beautiful Movement and you have national leaders, people like Werth Mcfarland who nationally helped preserve Niagara Falls and yosemite and myra lloyd. Who work nationally with the Forest Service to preserve our forests, they have all settled in harrisburg and they as part of what they do, have established a beautification effort and a press effort called mcfarland press. One of the things that Lloyd Mcfarland does, he pioneered Color Printing in the 20th century, just as the mouthpiece does in the 20th century and this may not seem like much today when digital photography you can get this beautiful clear colored but in 1900s, getting the right color when you weredoing the book of safe roses of the world , thats important. And mcfarland had a rose garden that was internationally renowned. What he did was first, he sent out his own artists to go out and think the flowers. Had examples of some original paintings that were made, getting the pigments just right area after his artists would paint the flowers and illshow you a picture. This is a picture of his rose garden. Right here in harrisburg, in bellevue park. After the time of horace macfarland, the city was known primarily as evangelical house, we had several evangelical presses including one called the evangelical press which published right here up the street, published most of the evangelical works in the United States at that time were coming out of harrisburg. This is the history of the Evangelical Church but you have books and all sorts of things. Its most everyones home and i would say mid 20th Century America that was at all influenced by the Evangelical Church had works published in harrisburg. Another thing going on around the 20th century was the stackpole press which which is another major publisher that is around today. It was founded by a gentleman named stackpole who owned one of the competing newspapers. You had a not so conservative newspaper in harrisburg but stackpole press was founded and came to prominence in the midst of world war ii as a press that published a lot of military rule related works. They have a wonderful selection of books on hunting and fishing and military history. Harrisburg continues to go on, i dont have other examples but in the 20th century we become well known to people as the home of the bookofthemonth club is based in camp hill across the river, the susquehanna river from harrisburg area all the book clubs in the 20th Century America whether its military book club or the Cook Book Club or all the clubs people did and used to be a part of by now, all these books were printed and is distributive right here in central pennsylvania so thats the history that the midtown scholars were built upon today and why we chose this crossword as a place to continue to tell the story of American Publishing and you can find all these books and many many more here today. We are a bookstore so the books are for sale but we also encourage housing and encourage people coming and discovering and just learning about the history of publishing, learning about the history of harrisburg and america. Over the past centuries we very much see the future as bookstores as returning, weve moved particularly into a physical space because thats where people want to speak and talk about their books and even if you acquire them online you still want to have them with other people and thats the kind of thing that a bookstore coffeehouse, bookstore, cafc is able to bring to the public. Cspan is visiting