Feel Good story - 300 peerson Book Brigade

[Bekeart]

Town Helps Bookstore Move, One Book at a Time

'Book brigade' passed books hand to hand in small Michigan town

Residents of all ages in a small Michigan community helped a local bookshop move each of its 9,100 books—one by one—to a new storefront about a block away. A "book brigade" of around 300 people stood in two lines on the sidewalk in downtown Chelsea on Sunday, passing each title from Serendipity Books' former location directly to the correct shelves in the new building, down the block and around the corner on Main Street, the AP reports. "It was a practical way to move the books, but it also was a way for everybody to have a part," Michelle Tuplin, the store's owner, said. "As people passed the books along, they said 'I have not read this' and 'that's a good one.'"

Town Helps Bookstore Move, One Book at a Time

Bekeart

Glad they had good weather.

 

[NYlakesider]

My wife saw that yesterday and said that was similar to a Hallmark movie of a couple years ago.

I would not know as that is a TV channel I do not watch!

 

[lihpster]

I remember reading a novel once that had the protagonists needing to move a large amount of books from a 4th floor warehouse space. Of course, they had to do it at night and in one go. They set up one of those trash funnels and put the bottom end in dump trucks. Toss the books through the window, into the chute and down into the trucks.
I think the book brigade is a better system, if you have 300 friends.