Main Street Philosopher is a collection of essays based on Bill Peach's fifty-two years (1951-2003) of experience as a merchant and men's clothier on Main Street in Historic Franklin Tennessee. The "philosopher"shares stories of Main Street as it was in the 1950s and the changes that came. With a life view gained from a mid-twentieth-century upbringing in a country hollow and a small town, he writes on matters of religion and education from a philosophical and political slant.