This is happening5:22Michigan Bookstore allows the Army of Volunteers to transfer 9 100 books One Block
Moving is easy when you receive 300 closest friends to help.
When Serendipity Books in Chelsea, Michigan had to transfer 9 100 books to the new location of the store by one block, they gathered the “Brigade of Books” by a volunteer to create a human chain, and convey each book, one by one, to his new home.
“We had people from five or six years, up to 91. Someone brought their dog. And everyone had some street parties when they donated books,” said Michelle Tuplin, store owner, store owner, This is happening Host Nil Köksal.
“People sang. They told stories. They reviewed books when they moved. You know, there were a lot of emotions when they reached the romantic section. It was simply funny.”
Section by section in alphabetical order
Serendipity books did not do this to save on money or labor, said Tuplin. In fact, she hired removals to come to the shelves the next day.
“We had so many offers as people wanted to help, and we really wanted to be able to engage people in a significant way, as well as an integration way,” she said.
“The community really feels a sense of property in books about dirt, I think, with many independent bookstores.”
When she issued the phone in January, she says that she had no idea how many people would eventually appear and whether they would be able to do it.
But he says that so many people listened to the call that they created not one, but two human chains, and the whole thing was done in about two hours.
“It was a section by section, so it's crazy that the items really remained in the right and alphabetical,” said Tuplin.
“So for us in a new space, you know, there is really no unpacking or rearranging, re -alphabetizing. It is really quite organized.”
32 -year -old Kaci Friss, who works at Serendipity Books, grew up in Chelsea, a community of about 5,300 inhabitants, 95 kilometers west of Detroit. She said that the event reminded her of “how special” the community is.
“People are just really looking for each other,” said Friss. “Wherever you go, you will come across someone you know or who knows you and ask about your day.”
The store opens again in a new location on April 26, which happens an independent day of the bookstore.
Tuplin admits that running a bookstore is a “difficult business”. But he says that people in Chelsea always appear in Serendipity books.
“People realize that they want these books in their communities. They know what an independent bookstore in the community means,” she said.
“This means the involvement of the community. This means a community discussion, access to various books, all these wonderful things. And people seem to know that if they want it, they have to support the bookstore.”