Do you remember Beth Macy's recent series about Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Co. in the Roanoke Times? Now Beth is looking for people who worked for Bassett Furniture from the mid 1960s to 1982, or thereabouts to interview. She is very interested in anyone with good personal (or unusual) memories of the Bassett managers, especially the John Bassetts, W.M. Bassett, Ed Bassett and the Spilmans. You may contact her via email at bmacy@cox.net if you are interested in talking to her. She can meet you at the Bassett Historical Center. This new research is needed because Beth has sold a book proposal to Little, Brown & Co. about John Bassett III, the iconoclastic Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Co. CEO who decided to fight the Chinese import invasion. The book will expand on that story she wrote earlier this year as part of the “Picking Up the Pieces” series. The working title of Macy’s book is Factory Man. Macy has written for The Roanoke Times since 1989, has won many national and state awards, and served as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. You can read more about her on her blog, Intrepid Paper Girl.
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