Retired professor publishes memoir about his days as a Deck's Hardware clerk - Around Ambler

Retired professor publishes memoir about his days as a Deck's Hardware clerk - Around Ambler

John K. Brown, a former clerk at the now-closed Deck’s Hardware in Ambler, a retired University of Virginia professor and the author of three books, published a lengthy memoir of his days on Main Street in the late-1970s. An excerpt: The buildings, the displays, and the business itself were all the work of a strong-willed figure, the father of those four brothers and the title character of G.M. Deck and Sons. When I showed up in 1977, the old m…