Green Heron Bookshop

San Marcos’ indie bookstore finds a new home

Cicero said that, “A room without books is like a body without a soul.” If this is true — that a room can be without meaning and purpose without books — then perhaps the same could be said for a town without a bookshop.

Thankfully, San Marcos’ time without an indie bookstore was relatively short thanks to Wade Vetiver and the Green Heron Bookshop. Vetiver opened Green Heron in February on West Hopkins only two years after Half Price Books closed its doors. Green Heron currently occupies one corner of The Young Building, along with Vetiver’s original business, Solidago Apothecary.