Hats in the Belfry Reviews

Almost 20 years ago on a cool December day in 1989, Mom, my aunt and I were strolling along the sidewalk in the then relatively new Bayside Marketplace. While my mother and her older sister were happily browsing through the storefronts, I was in a less-enthusiastic mood; I didn't yet have a credit card, and in my wallet I had less than $30.00...and since I've never been fond of going to a mall just to walk about and "window shop," I was not very happy. All I wanted was to either find a Waldenbooks outlet or for my mom and her sister to get tired so we could get home.

In one of those strange little...