Congratulations to Webster Groves Bookshop, Webster Groves, Mo., which is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Owner Ann Foy "keeps up pictures of young customers, even though they've long since grown. She started working in the small independent bookstore in 1985, so she has a good sense of the store's history and place in the city," the St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote.
"We have a wonderful community that takes pride in having a bookstore," she said. "They support me--I just take care of it for them. It's their store."
The bookstore was founded in 1965 by Natalie Sheetz and Julie Robinson, and was purchased by Foy and her late husband in 1999. She has no plans to retire: "They'll probably take me out of here feet first."
