300 people in a small Michigan town formed a book brigade to move books to a local bookstore’s new location from its old one. The move took ~2 hours and “the brigade even put the books back on the shelves in alphabetical order.”
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Amuricah!
(But for real this time.)
Here's a video of the brigade in action.
Love seeing this. In Galesburg, IL this was done by ~500 students to move books from the old library to the new library. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXQ6uA2oQNM
Porter Square Books in Cambridge, too!
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