Let’s go to Chelsea, Michigan, for the AWESOME today. You have probably heard the expression “It Takes a Village.” Most of the time, it can be attributed to things like parenting. You can also say it takes a village to move a bookstore. 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 “book brigade” of around 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, down the block and around the corner on Main Street. The best part is as volunteers passed books down the line, they would look at a book and say, “I haven’t read that yet, I’ll have to put it on my list.” When a love for reading mixes with a love for kindness, THAT’S AWESOME.
