300 People Help Local Bookstore Move
Vocab level: B1
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It's the human chain of books.
One by one, each book is passed down the line.
Look at how far it goes.
Snaking down the street and around the corner through the small town of Chelsea, Michigan.
That's 300 people who showed up to help the local bookstore move to its new larger location.
It's a human conveyor belt stretching 350 feet.
We moved 9,100 books.
Michelle Tuplin owns Serendipity Books and says she never imagined most of the town showing up.
We started with the A's in the science section, and then moved all the way through,
and they're still in the right spots in the new store.
This had to be way easier than loading things into boxes.
It was amazing.
How long did it take? The whole process?
It took just under two hours.
Talk about one novel approach in lending a hand to start a new chapter.
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