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It’s been a busy time here at the James Cave Instagram Feed. We recently announced our new job as a bookseller at Kinderhook Books, a dream job, if we’re being honest! And we also launched a new food section to this Jiffy newsletter. Read on for more.
Kinderhook Books is a new independent bookstore in the heart of one of New York’s oldest towns, and I have to pinch myself over my luck.
How did I get this job? I have no idea. When I heard that Mindy, the shop’s owner, was looking for some help as she expands the store, I immediately applied, and for some reason, she said yes!
Why she said yes is a mystery to this day. But how did I know this was a job I needed? This is a different story. A story that I can explain.
You see, over the course of the past few months, I began to feel something growing inside me, inside of my Inner Self. A growing Missing Thing. I didn’t know what this Missing Thing was, nor did I have a name for it, but I felt it hanging around the corners of my Inner Self, making itself at Home, using my Google Chromecast account to watch Jeff Bezos’s Amazon Prime’s Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, and I’d already watched that show. I didn’t need to see it again. Nonetheless, on a Tuesday, while staring at my half-empty bookshelf that I built myself for the purposes of sharing content on social media and launching the James Cave Instagram Feed, I had an Inner Epiphany that turned into Outer Actions!
I realized that, with the bookshelf project complete, I was in need of more books in my journey. And now I have a job at Kinderhook Books, which gives me access to books at all times — isn’t that something?! My Inner Self Epiphanied Itself Into Outer Results! It’s The Alchemist come to life, and I hope that it leaves you inspired and Paulo Coelho at peace.
I also realized it was time to get to know my new Neighborhood Local Day Job Neighbors in Kinderhook, so I launched a series all about the village, called “Kinderhook Week,” that was intended to be one week full of fun Kinderhook stories, and instead stretched into multiple weeks of stories, because producing content is time consuming! It was fun, and this might be the first of many annual Kinderhook Weeks we do here on the feed. Who knows!
We met some of the people who run the restaurants and businesses in Kinderhook Village — Grace and Ramiro at Super Stories, Patrick at Saisonnier, The Kinderhooker themself, and me at Kinderhook Books. And I was especially thankful to hear about Kinderhook’s history from Kate Johnson, the official municipal historian of Kinderhook Village.
Here are links to those posts:
I have an excerpt of my conversation with Kate that didn’t make it into our Reel — it’s featured in the audio newsletter linked at the top of this issue, so be sure to listen if you haven’t already!
Did you know that New York is the only state that requires every municipality to have its own municipal historian by law? This is the stuff I love to learn about!!!!
Oh, by the way. Here’s our centerfold of the month:
Here’s a miniposter of “The Little Magician” that you can print out yourself
The name, “Kinderhook,” shows up on Dutch maps as far back as 1614, so you can see that this town is steeped in history. This is why it’s so special that something newly historic would happen right here in its village square: the launch of our food section here at The Jiffy, The Hungry Eye. 👁️👄👁️
I'll dive deeper into the backstory about this section and its name, but for now, please enjoy the Hungry Eye’s first feature, a profile about the best sandwich in New York.
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