Founder of San Antonio’s Twig Book Shop at Pearl, Harris Smithson, has died
Joe Barrera Jr. / San Antonio Express-NewsSan Antonio’s storied Twig Book ShopSmithson died Sunday morning with his daughter Shannon Oelrich and son Blake Smithson by his side, according to a Facebook post by Oerlich. Harrison was diagnosed with metastatic brain cancer just a month ago.started in 1972, when the Tennessee native moved here to take over the L&M college bookstore on North Main Avenue behind San Antonio College.
The Twig got its name from a line by 18th century British poet Alexander Pope: “ ’Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent, a tree’s inclined.” The Twig grew to three locations in the 1980s, one of them in the former Higgins Bookstore space at the Arcadia Grove Center on Broadway. Smithson eventually closed two of the locations and moved the Arcadia store to a space in front of Cappy’s, where an Alamo facade was built just for the store.
In addition to L&M and the Twig, Smithson also opened the former Red Balloon children’s bookstore in the Colonnade and Booksmith’s on Alamo Plaza.
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