Tom Moore · Blooming Grove
DiggyDog
Tall tales, poems and cowboy comedy by Tom Moore of Digginchy Books, written for the Blooming Grove Community News.
Tom Moore and Faye opened Digginchy Books at 117 South Fordyce in April 2009, next to the bank's drive-through and across the street from where The Grapevine is now. The building is the new Masonic lodge today. Every book was five dollars or less, except the ones on the porch, which were a buck.
Tom also wrote for the Community News, the Blooming Grove Community Library's monthly paper, as DiggyDog and later as Mark Twaing: tall tales, poems, a Gunsmoke send-up he called Grinsmoke, and a cowboy detective serial, The Adventures of Homer Spurlock & Doc Shotgun.
Tom has passed. He was a good friend, and he would have loved knowing people still read his writing and enjoyed his wit. It is kept here as he wrote it.
And, you can get a book, read it, and it could potentially change your life.Tom Moore, on opening Digginchy Books, April 2009
4 pieces
- Tall taleLulu
- PoemsFour Poems
- Grinsmoke 1Grinsmoke: A Bad Day in Budge City
- Grinsmoke 2Grinsmoke: The Posse
When Digginchy opened
The Community News gave the new shop its business spotlight in April 2009: "Reading in The Grove," by Deanna Brown, reprinted from the Corsicana Daily Sun. Tom had collected non-fiction books in Dallas for more than twenty years. Faye ran an interior design business in San Diego. They met online playing chess. "I played chess with her for three years before I knew she was a girl!" Tom said.
Tom's farmhouse was so full of books that even the windows were covered. He found the building on Fordyce online and moved the books to the Grove to sell them over the internet, but people kept knocking on the door wanting to come in and look. So they opened the shop.
Tom and Faye's welcome
Printed with the spotlight, in their own words:
Tom and Faye would like to welcome all you good folks to our little book store.
While we do carry a small selection of popular fiction, along with poetry, children's books and the classics, our primary focus is on non fiction.
We hope you will enjoy perusing the stacks of art books, archaeology, anthropology, antiques and photography books, as well as religion, philosophy and various metaphysics.
Or perhaps your tastes run more to cook books, gardening, needlepoint and quilting.
And of course Tom hopes to meet those who share his love of history, including Texana, the old west, American Indians. Tom also loves to read ancient and medieval history, as well as books on the civil war, world wars 1&2, Korea, Viet Nam, and other related military histories.
Tom has spent years accumulating what he considers to be uncommonly interesting books, and has very few duplicate titles, so when a book is sold, it is unlikely he will be able to produce another copy. Shall I mention that many titles are scarce or out of print?
We have a lot more books than our store space will accommodate, so as we sell, we will replace them with fresh titles. It will always be a treasure hunt at DIGGINCHY BOOKS, for the biblio enthusiast.
And here is the shocking part; all titles are priced at a very modest $5 per volume, except for the ones on the porch, which are $1 each.
Because of the sheer volume of books that we are constantly shuffling, a great deal of browsing may be necessary, but for the brave hearted bibliophile, this daunting task will be duly rewarded.
Anyway folks, time to put aside the longwinded diatribe and shuffle some more books.
Y'all come see us.
Tom & Faye
Community News, April 2009, pages 23 and 41.
