Elleda Wilson: Guns to butter
Aug. 25—Bookworm rerun: Seaside resident Robert Kroning sells used books online; one was a first edition of "Indecent Deception," by R.H. Doty, published in 1984.
When Robert put the book up for sale, he in tucked a copy of a July 9, 1987, Seaside Signal article about Doty, who lived Seaside at the time, which said that Doty (pictured), a 10-year Green Beret Vietnam veteran, managed the Portland Fudge Company in Seaside, but also autographed copies of his book nearby at Columbia Books.
The author and his wife came to the North Coast via Utah, planning to stay "a long time," as he liked the "change from guns to butter." Even so, the couple moved away.
Who bought Robert's book? R.H. Doty, of course, now living in Gautier, Mississippi. Why? "He must have run out of copies," Robert guessed. (In One Ear, 9/27/2013)
