Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:39:36 -0400
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [WSFA] The novel resurgence of independent bookstores
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Excerpt:
Last October, when superstorm Sandy ripped through Connecticut, it
flooded Bank Square Books in Mystic. Owner Annie Philbrick recalls
walking inside to the smell of the ocean and a soaking wet carpet.

She and her staff had moved everything as high as they could before the
storm, but wate and paper are a disastrous combination. With no power to
turn on pumps or fans, Ms. Philbrick was in danger of losing her stock
of more than 30,000 books.

She put out an update on her Facebook page: We have to get these books
out of here or we're going to lose them all. The volunteers started
arriving. Philbrick's neighbors and customers helped the staff load 400
packing crates of books =C3=A2=C2=80=C2=93 enough to fill two Mayflower m=
oving vans.

After the walls and floors had been repaired, more volunteers showed up
to carry the books back inside the store. They loaded cards on spinner
racks, dropped off cookies, and cleaned the windows and the floor. A
PayPal Sandy Relief Fund raised $7,000 =C3=A2=C2=80=C2=93 enough for Phil=
brick to pay
the movers and her staff.
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<http://www.csmonitor.com/content/view/full/656861>

        mark