She will continue to work with the Kinneys in her new role-the couple has purchased several properties in Plainville's Bacon Square, where An Unlikely Story is also located, and they have plans to revitalize the downtown with the bookstore serving as the cornerstone. Sundin has been with An Unlikely Story since its founding in 2015, helping owners Jeff and Julie Kinney build the store from the ground up. and (him) taking over the buying was a godsend for me."ĭeb Sundin, general manager of An Unlikely Story in Plainville, Mass., is leaving the bookstore to take on a new role developing a downtown revitalization project in Plainville. And he's so good with the customers and people rely on him for recommendations. I think that the first thing I always look for when hiring somebody is their reading habits. We actually were aiming to do it last fall, but things were still kind of crazy and it just didn't get done.
"I always had a time frame for me," Meyer said, "and just recognizing that (Hunter) is the right person for the job. The ownership transition had been in the works for some time. He just developed great relationships with our sales representatives, and just really amped up the titles that we carried in the store just by virtue of being able to meet with them and increase our inventory." Because at the time, I think I was doing the buying, the events and the accounting.
Meyer recalled that sometime last year Gillum "took over the buying for the store. kind of a book person's dream, doing all this stuff, like reorganizing your books, or sorting your books and stuff like that, stuff that I would be doing at my home," Gillum said.īeaverdale Books owners Alice Meyer and Hunter Gillum "I was a book person before coming here, and it's just like. who not only worked at the store for years but has his own book club." Gillum became store manager in 2017 and was officially instated in his new role effective January 1.īorn in nearby Indianola, Gillum "moved to Iowa City for college before graduating in 2015 and making his way back to central Iowa, where he eventually began working at the local bookstore," the Register noted. The Register reported that regular customers "will likely already recognize the local bookshop's new co-owner. Care must therefore be used to correctly interpret this symbol in whatever context in which it may be found.Hunter Gillum has become a co-owner of Beaverdale Books in Des Moines, Iowa, joining Alice Meyer, who founded the bookshop in 2006. Consequently, the use of the Iron Cross in a non-racist context has greatly proliferated in the United States, to the point that an Iron Cross in isolation (i.e., without a superimposed swastika or without other accompanying hate symbols) cannot be determined to be a hate symbol. By the early 2000s, this other use of the Iron Cross had spread from bikers to skateboarders and many extreme sports enthusiasts and became part of the logo of several different companies producing equipment and clothing for this audience. In the United States, however, the Iron Cross also became one of several Nazi-era symbols adopted by outlaw bikers, more to signify rebellion or to shock than for any white supremacist ideology. After World War II, the medal was discontinued but neo-Nazis and other white supremacists subsequently adopted it as a hate symbol and it has been a commonly-used hate symbol ever since. During the 1930s, the Nazi regime in Germany superimposed a swastika on the traditional medal, turning it into a Nazi symbol.
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