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 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Rust tells the story of Jet Jones and the Taylor family, who Jet has taken it upon himself to ...

A book about rust? Sounds about as appealing as one about drying paint. Rust, journalist Jonathan Waldman admits, “is just not sexy.” People willing to tune in the high drama of the Weather Channel, ...

She and Piiparinen were keen to assemble a Cleveland snapshot that felt more authentic to them: No mindless boosterism or "ruins porn," that artistic fetish for fallen-down manufacturing towns. "Rust ...