“Residents help move bookshop book by book”
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 — one by one — to a new storefront about a block away.
The 300 people stood in two lines running along a sidewalk in downtown Chelsea on Sunday, passing each title from Serendipity Books’ former location directly to the correct shelves in the new building.
“It was a way for everybody to have a part in the move,” Michelle Tuplin, the store’s owner, said.
Momentum had been building since Tuplin announced the move in January.
“So many people wanted to help,” she said on Tuesday.
Tuplin said the endeavour took just under two hours.
Now she hopes to have the new location open within two weeks.
She said Sunday’s book brigade reminded her of “how special this community is.”
คำศัพท์
bookshop (n.) ร้านขายหนังสือ
local (adj.) ท้องถิ่น
resident (n.) ผู้อยู่อาศัย
community (n.) ชุมชน
stand in line ยืนเข้าแถว
human chain (n.) โซ่มนุษย์
block (n.) ช่วงตึก
location (n.) ตำแหน่งที่ตั้ง
shelves (n.) ชั้นวางของ
endeavour (n.) ความพยายาม
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