A bookworm's delight: New book vending machine comes to Hartwell Elementary

Sunshot by Michael Hall — Kindergartener Duke Swafford reaches up to press the buttons of Inchy’s Bookworm Vending Machine on Oct. 25 at Hartwell Elementary as vice principal Ashley McNeil, from left, second-grader Jordynn Ashmore, media specialist Erin Gaines and principal Lydia Bennett, right, look on.
Sunshot by Michael Hall — Kindergartener Duke Swafford reaches up to press the buttons of Inchy’s Bookworm Vending Machine on Oct. 25 at Hartwell Elementary as vice principal Ashley McNeil, from left, second-grader Jordynn Ashmore, media specialist Erin Gaines and principal Lydia Bennett, right, look on.

Duke Swafford had an important decision to make with the eyes of a packed gymnasium at Hartwell Elementary on him, adding to the pressure. 

The moment on Oct. 24 at the ribbon cutting for the new …