Westport Friends (Quaker) 53rd Annual Used Book Fair
938 Main Road, Westport, MA
July 12, 2014
11 AM - Sunset and for the next two weeks...
An early bird arrives at 10:30 AM; by 10:55 the tents are surrounded by shoppers.
Greg Marsello, Book Fair Steering Committee Clerk, with Gail Nixdorf, a birthright member from Little Compton, who blows the whistle officially opening the fair at 11:00 AM; and with Dr. Stewart Kirkaldy, a founder of the Used Book Fair who's attended nearly every fair since 1964.
Macomber Community House is filled with toys, CDs, DVDs, audio books, cassettes and VHS tapes (yes, people still buy them) and Better Books.
Wall to wall people, wall to wall books...
Fierce concentration, focused shoppers and the thrill of the hunt...
At 10 AM, young readers got the first crack at books in the Meeting House. At 25 cents apiece and 6 for a dollar, the books are a spectacular bargain for parents and kids spending their allowances.
Shoppers check out their hauls...
Property Coordinator Gretchen Baker-Smith with pt.
"Yesterday,we got slammed with people bringing in tons of books for the sale and realized a chunk of them were good quality. Greg Marcello, a master organizer, set up another sorting/pricing session and we spent hours getting them ready for the sale for today," Gretchen says. Books that are not accepted are recycled. The Westport Friends website states that it does not accept text books, encyclopedias, soiled/stained/moldy books and magazines.
Music and food! Welcome additions to any outdoor summer event.
Ed Swidey, guitar, Cindy Spitko, fiddle, joined by Lon Davis of Westport on mandolin with brightly polished resonator on the mandolin's belly. They play my Grateful Dead fav, "Stealin'". Swidey and Spitko, actors from Philadelphia, are in fourth year residency of running a theater camp for kids in the Macomber Community Hall.
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