Mom & Pop Hardware with Beth DeCarbo

Beth DeCarbo is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe.

In her page-turning memoir, DeCarbo shares stories from her childhood summers and after school, when as 10-year-old Bethy, a/k/a “Miss Nuisance,” she sold nuts and bolts at her dad’s bustling hardware store on Main Street in rural Kansas. That is, unless she was selling nuts and bolts at the hardware store right next door. It was owned by her dad’s biggest competitor: Bethy’s mother.


Located in McPherson, Kansas, the side-by-side hardware stores set the stage for an unconventional childhood.


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