Attending An Autographing With Wally And Darrel

This past Tuesday evening I got together with my old University of Denver Bookstore friends and colleagues Wally and Darrel (seen in the photograph from left to right, respectively) to attend a talk and autographing by Susan Shulten, a DU history professor on the occasion of the publication of her new book A History of America in 100 Maps.  We decided to meet first at The Goods, a restaurant and bar adjoining the Tattered Cover Bookstore, and afterwards headed next door to the event.  Darrel had just gotten back from his 50th high school reunion in Waterloo, Iowa, while Wally was about to embark on an 18 day trip to visit his sister in St. Ignace, in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and so we had much to talk about.

Afterwards, we went next door to the Tattered Cover Bookstore (my former employer, I might add) to attend the presentation by University of Denver Professor Susan Shulten.  Shulten was a favorite professor of Wally's son Peter - a DU graduate now working for a tech start-up in San Francisco - and so Wally wound up getting 2 books signed (as seen in the photo on the right), one for his son and one for him to read on the trip to Michigan. Darrel also bought a copy.  Me? No.  But on the other hand, the Tattered Cover ran out of books, and if I hadn't given the copy I was perusing to Wally, he would have been out of luck.  No thanks necessary, Wally.  It is what we cheapskates do.