I guess you could say that PD and former BJ pop culture critic Mark Dawidziak is a human bookend.

Let Mark explain:

“Becky wanted to take a picture of dad with ALL of the books (including foreign editions). This was the Vincent Price-ish result of her efforts.

“Appropriate though, since I'll be talking about one of those books, ‘The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Dracula’ Thursday evening at 7 during The Vampire Talk (Cuyahoga Falls Library) and then I will be taking ‘Everything I Need to Know I Learned in The Twilight Zone’ to this Saturday's Books by the Banks in Cincinnati."

Clever segue, Mark.

Wonder when Mark finds time to work for the PD?

Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain and the Civil War also are on Mark’s tour, which includes Ohio counties and several states and the Center for Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College in New York.

Maybe he’s a bi-polar writer/actor.

Dawidziak came to the BJ from Tennessee in 1983 and grew up on New York City’s Long Island. He is married to Sara Showman Dawidziak, who often performs with Mark on the many occasions when they’re not in their Cuyahoga Falls home.

As for daughter Becky, she may become a more famous photographer than Civil War legend Matthew Brady.

Notice that scary shadow behind Mark's right shoulder? Well done, Becky.