I Opened A Bookstore In A Small Town During A Pandemic

Come visit The Painted Porch on Main Street in Bastrop, TX or shop online at Ryan Holiday and his wife Samantha opened a bookstore with their entire life savings in a 140-year-old building in a small town outside Austin. They envisioned hosting events, welcoming customers from the community, and drawing people to this beautiful street on the bluffs of the Colorado River. But by the first week of March 2020 the world was entrenched in a pandemic. What began with such excitement found them both, for obvious reasons, standing between the empty brick walls thinking of that Arrested Development line: I’ve made a huge mistake. This video documents their journey to fulfill their lifelong dream of opening a bookstore.