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The Red and Black • Tuesday, October 23, 1990 • 3
Earth First to speak on
wilderness tonight
By SANDRA STEPHENS
Staff Writer
Earth First, an environmental
group considered controversial by
some, will speak about the wildlife
and the value of wilderness as a
whole at the Psychology Audito
rium at 7 p.m. tonight.
The program is part of the Earth
First Green Fire Wilderness Re
vival, a group movement concerned
with nature. Scotty Johnson, envi
ronmental singer-songwriter and
activist, and Roger Featherstone, a
veteran Earth First organizer will
entertain and inform the audience.
SEA director of education Al
lison Jones said the program will
involve a slide show, music and a
question and answer session. The
show educates in a way that’s ex
citing, she said.
“It gets the message out in a way
that makes you feel good,” Jones
said.
“Earth First was formed to pro
mote wilderness,” she said.
Earth First was at the Univer
sity spring quarter close to Earth
Day, she said. There was a low
turnout because the program was
on a Sunday.
The program is sponsored by
Talking Leaves BooKstore, The
Bluebird Cafe and Students for En
vironmental Awareness.
Bill Walsh, the owner of the
Bluebird Cafe and Talking Leaves
Bookstore, said in the past dozen
years people have isolated them
selves into concerns for issues as
acid rain and overpopulation.
“Yet they don’t look at nature
with a capital ‘N’,” he said.
Walsh said the program will
help rekindle if not an interest but
a love for nature.
Walsh, a former chairperson of
the Athens Sierra Club and
member of Earth First, said Earth
First promotes individual action,
unlike other environmental groups
who have officers controlling the
organization.
Walsh said the motto of Earth
First is “No compromise in the de
fense of nature.”
“It encourages the individual to
act on his own knowledge and own
interest,” Walsh said.
He said people are willing to
chain themselves to bulldozers and
tie themselves to trees.
‘These people are acting inde
pendently of each other,” he said.
Jones said there have been Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation prob
ings into people associated with
Earth First.
In the summer of 1989, some
Earth First members were charged
in connection with a conspiracy to
sabotage nuclear facilities in Ari
zona.
“Individuals are responsible for
E rotecting the Earth,” he said. “I do
elieve the individual is respon
sible for the problems facing the
Earth,” Walsh said.
“I would say people’s awareness
has increased in proportion to the
decreased quality ol the environ
ment,” he said.
Jones said, “It’s an extremely
inspirational show.”
Information about Earth First
will be available at the program.
Books and t-shirts will be sold.
Tickets are $2 at the door.
Athenian book plethora
Downtown stores can please everyone
By MARK BIXLER
Contributing Writer
For anyone in the market for
used books, downtown Athena is
the place to be.
In all, there are five used
bookstores downtown, all within
walking distance of one another.
A diverse selection among the
stores practically guarantees
something for everyone — from
the discriminating connoisseur to
the leisurely reader.
Jackson Street Books is a gen
eral-interest used bookstore
owned by Edward and Susan
Wilde. There are upwards of 20,-
000 books inside, more or less
evenly divided between hardback
and paperback. The store doesn’t
specialize in any one particular
field, and probably has the widest
range of any bookstore in Athens.
“We have everything from his
torical romances to literary first
editions to unusual bindings to
rare books,” Wilde said.
The store also trades academic
books for credit and will conduct
special book searches for hard-to-
find books.
While Jackson Street Books
runs the gambit as far as breadth
of material is concerned, Bill
Walsh, owner of the Talking
Leaves bookstore, is very specific
as to what type of books hell sell:
high-auality.
“I don’t deal with books that
are torn, or that don’t have their
dust jackets if they’re supposed
to, or books that are damaged,”
he said.
Walsh traces his fascination
with fine books to a special edi
tion of Walt Whitman’s “Leaves
of Grass” that his mother gave
him when he was 12, the cover of
which was made up of woven
grass.
Since then, he said, he has col
lected high-ouality books, and his
affinity for them is clear upon en
tering Talking Leaves. The books
are neatly arranged, and the all
hardback collection rests el
egantly on fine bookcases.
Walsh has approximately 5,-
000 books in his store, and most
of them deal with Southeastern
Americana or Georgia and re
gional history. There also is a
good bit of fiction and several
other topics.
Talking Leaves moved this fall
into new quarters on Clayton
Street. Directly next door to it is
another new store, Emeritus
Books, owned by Terry Cava-
nagh.
Like Walsh, Cavanagh deals
exclusively with high-quality
hardback books. There are sev
eral interesting complete sets for
sale, as well as various histories
and specialty books dealing with
science and medicine.
Another haven for used books
in Athens is Spend Money Here,
a catch-all of nostalgic books and
bric-a-brac, located next to the
Bluebird Cafe on Washington
Street.
Alongside a healthy selection
of LP records, tattered clothing
and concert programs from The
Osmonds world tour, there is an
altogether odd assortment of
used books.
There are many general fiction
and literature books, as well as
sections dealing with religion,
philosophy, the occult and sev
eral academic topics. Owner Paul
Thomas was unavailable for com
ment, but employee and ubiqui
tous local William Orten Carlton
was more than willing to talk.
“Not many stores will have a
true crime and disaster section or
a moose stories section,” Carlton
said. “But we do.”
He went on to say that while
readers may compromise a tad in
quality (most books are in good
condition, but they’ve definitely
been handled), they make ud for
it in price (higher than a thrift
store but lower that many other
bookstores).
Spend Money Here also boasts
a veritable plethora of old mag
azines, from National Geographic
and American Photographer to
Life and Playboy.
Located on South Street, on
the back side of the building that
houses Gus Garcia’s and Blim-
pie’s, Back Door Books appears
conspicuously unobtrusive from
the street. Inside, shelves over
flow and stacks of books line the
floor, but the cluttered store
holds only one-third of the entire
book collection at any one time.
There are roughly 10,000 books
on the shelves, while another 30,-
000 rest in warehouses.
Back Door Books is run by Jim
and Sally Kursh, with help from
their 12-year-old son, Diego.
They deal primarily in scholarly
books and specialize in psy
chology material. Diego has a col
lection of comic books for sale,
and there are a few magazines
here and there.
Kursh credits his happiness as
a book dealer to an extensive edu
cation and an apprenticeship
with an English book denier afler
graduate school. He earned a de
gree in five majors in college and
said that makes it easier for him
to deal with the various academic
fields.
"I wouldn’t be doing this if it
weren’t fun,” said Kursh, “be
cause there isn’t a lot of money in
it.”
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