By Ellen Ecker Ogden
Photography by Hubert Schriebl
Chris MorrowChris Morrow is looking to do more than merely sell books. He wants his locally owned Northshire Bookstore to be a placewhich can act as an underpinning of a better world.
Chris Morrow may well have the most coveted job in the world among people who love books. Sure, it's a desk job, and his desk is a makeshift affair; with two tables squeezed together to form an "L" piled with tall stacks of books, and a laptop computer balanced on an old typing table. "I love books," admits Chris Morrow, president and general manager of the Northshire Bookstore, which his parents, Barbara and Ed, started in 1976, "But they have never been my sole focus."
The peacock blue walls contain an eclectic mix of paintings, weavings, prayer flags and sculptures; all are evidence that his interests clearly go beyond just books; there is Tibetan Buddhism, world travel, family and the community, all evidence of the untraditional path he had taken before deciding to return to » read more
