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.
'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.