It was Brian Lampkin who initially opened Rust Belt Books in Allentown in 1996. Rust Belt’s current owner – Kristi Meal – started working at the book shop in 1998, and eventually took it over in 2004.
It’s been a couple of years since Rust Belt Books first started thinking about picking up from Allen Street in order to plant roots on Grant Street. Since that time, shop owner Kristi Meal has done a ...