Ben’s Bookstore was a fixture for many years at 810 Center Street and a favorite of local bibliophiles.<\/p>\n
When it closed, it left a void, but now there’s a new bookstore.<\/p>\n
After it closed, the Miller family saw it being advertised for sale on Facebook and getting the store for Melody Miller, a 19-year-old Taft Union, graduate working toward a \u00a0certificate in library science it was a perfect opportunity.<\/p>\n
Melody talked with Ben Mangum, the founder and long-time owner, about buying the store, the day after seeing the post<\/p>\n
The Miller family, including parents Jordan and Shannon, jumped at the opportunity.<\/p>\n
“It was definitely not in our plans, but when we saw the saw the chance to maintain our roots in Taft, we took it,” Shannon Miller said.<\/p>\n
They changed the name to something more fitting and The Next Chapter was born.<\/p>\n
“We knew we wanted to change the name to something for fitting, she said. “A new vibe a new look.”<\/p>\n
The Millers are hoping to change the store to attract more high school and college aged readers with a “learning vibe” at the store.<\/p>\n
At any rate, Shannon Miller said they’ve made local book lovers happy.<\/p>\n
“A lot of people are coming in and saying they’re happy the book store is staying ,” she said.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s still selling used books and is open on Wednesday and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.<\/p>\n
The Next Chapter will be hosting a Taft Chamber of Commerce Sit n’ Sip there on Wednesday at 9 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben’s Bookstore was a fixture for many years at 810 Center Street and a favorite of local bibliophiles.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[359,18,117,19,17,526,5,2019],"class_list":{"0":"post-107117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-local","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-newsletter"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}