The Day the Music Began — Saying Goodbye to Tupelo Hardware For nearly a century, the old Tupelo Hardware sign watched over Main Street like a guardian of small-town history. More than a store, it was a piece of living Americana — and the unlikely birthplace of a musical revolution. Now, after almost one hundred years and four generations of the Booth family behind the counter, the downtown doors will close for the final time on December thirty-first. Its legacy, though, is forever tied to a sin