Nestled in the heart of Central Pennsylvania, the borough of Lewisburg sits alongside the Susquehanna River. Incorporated in 1812, Lewisburg was born out of a river town and soon began… read more →
From the outside, Market street seems like your typical downtown business district, consisting of chains, private stores, and houses. However, not all the houses are being occupied by humans. Mondragon… read more →
When you first enter Mondragon, you do not actually enter the physical store. Instead, you enter a long hallway that leads up into the apartments. The hallway is lined with… read more →
When I first walked through the door of Mondragon Books, I didn’t know where to begin. I wasn’t looking for anything in particular, but even if I had been, I… read more →
When walking down Market street in Lewisburg towards the Lewisburg Hotel, a local hotspot restaurant in the downtown area, you pass many shops and stores. Within each store, you can… read more →
Sarajane Snyder, current owner of Mondragon Bookstore, likes to talk about gardening, which reflects the large gardening section within the many shelves of the store. Sarajane even equates her ownership… read more →
Living in a world where information is available at the tips of one’s fingers, I’m amazed at the old-age vagueness surrounding Mondragon Books. No one seems to be quite sure… read more →
Powered by Time.Graphics During our second site visit to Mondragon Books in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, I’m not sure what I was expecting. The idea was to talk to the current owner,… read more →
When I first heard the name “Mondragon,” I instantly thought of a mythical being, akin to something I would read in a story about hobbits. I quickly learned that Mondragon’s… read more →
The town of Lewisburg was cast in grey and rain the day my group went to visit Mondragon. The local businesses each provided their own versions of warmth for the… read more →
Walking down Lewisburg’s Market Street, I felt oddly as if I’d stepped into a book: someplace more characterful, alive, and poignantly imperfect than most of standardized America these days. The… read more →
Settled on the edge of what is now known as the “college town” of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, sits the used book store, Mondragon Books. If you walked by it too fast,… read more →
The idea of driving to Lewisburg, Pennsylvania seems like a hassle to most Susquehanna University college students because it is a whopping twenty-five minute drive to get there. Admittedly, I… read more →