CHELSEA, Mich. (AP) \u2014 Residents of all ages in a small Michigan community formed a human chain and helped a local bookshop move each of its 9,100 books \u2014 one by one \u2014 to a new storefront about a block away.<\/p>\n
The \u201cbook brigade\u201d of around 300 people stood in two lines running along a sidewalk in downtown Chelsea on Sunday, passing each title from Serendipity Books\u2019 former location directly to the correct shelves in the new building, down the block and around the corner on Main Street.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a practical way to move the books, but it also was a way for everybody to have a part,\u201d Michelle Tuplin, the store\u2019s owner, said. \u201cAs people passed the books along, they said \u2018I have not read this\u2019 and \u2018that\u2019s a good one.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n
Momentum had been building since Tuplin announced the move in January.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt became so buzzy in town. So many people wanted to help,\u201d she said Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Tuplin said the endeavor took just under two hours \u2014 much shorter than hiring a moving company to box and unbox the thousands of titles. The brigade even put the books back on the shelves in alphabetical order. <\/p>\n
Now Tuplin hopes to have the new location open within two weeks.<\/p>\n
The bookstore has been in Chelsea, about 60 miles (95 kilometers) west of Detroit, since 1997. Tuplin has been the owner since 2017 and has three part-time employees.<\/p>\n
About 5,300 people call Chelsea home and residents described it as a place where neighbors help neighbors.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a small town and people just really look out for each other,\u201d said Kaci Friss, 32, who grew up in Chelsea and has worked at the bookstore for a little over a year. \u201cAnywhere you go, you are going to run into someone you know or who knows you, and is going to ask you about your day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Friss said Sunday\u2019s book brigade reminded her of \u201chow special this community is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHELSEA, Mich. (AP) \u2014 Residents of all ages in a small Michigan community formed a human chain and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[3444,6903,77,4179,388,14902,14901,8696,14903,7143,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-23866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-books-and-literature","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-general-news","12":"tag-lifestyle","13":"tag-mi-state-wire","14":"tag-michelle-tuplin","15":"tag-michigan","16":"tag-oddities","17":"tag-u-s-news","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114345848875171288","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}