And on April 21 the store will host a poetry open mic focused on poems set in Worcester. In addition to the opening celebration, there will be an event focused on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on April 14 featuring Jeff Lantos, author of Why Longfellow Lied, and Nick Basbanes, author of Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Store owners Jo and Huck Truesdell began hosting in-store events last month, with more scheduled in April. "These organizational changes strengthen the store enormously as we strive to better serve the reading and writing communities of Greater Boston."Īfter opening at a limited capacity earlier in the pandemic, TidePool Bookshop in Worcester, Mass., will host a grand opening celebration and ribbon cutting on Saturday, April 23, the Telegram & Gazette reported. "Given the length and breadth of their experience, Rachel, Alex, and Brad are ideal choices for their new positions," said co-owner Jeff Mayersohn. He previously held roles in the customer orders office and the print-on-demand department, and before his time at Harvard Book Store worked at BookHampton in East Hampton, N.Y. Lennon, who has worked at Harvard Book Store since 2009, has been the assistant manager since 2011. He joined Harvard Book Store in 2004 and served as marketing & events manager from 2013 to 2018 before becoming general manager. Brad Lennon will replace Cass as buying & inventory manager.Ĭass joined Harvard Book Store in 2006, serving in a variety of positions over the years, including bookseller, marketing & events manager, head buyer and, for the past four years, buying & inventory manager.Īs CCO, Meriwether will oversee upcoming renovation projects at the bookstore and an update of its website at, as well as future projects to enhance the bookstore's presence in Greater Boston's literary landscape. Cass succeeds Alex Meriwether, who is moving into a new role as chief creative officer. Rachel Cass will become general manager of Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, Mass., effective May 1. Only one former Uncles employee is interested in getting her old job back, he said, and a few other former staffers have volunteered to help get the store open again, so he's looking to hire booksellers. He urged customers to buy from the 8,000 science fiction and fantasy hardcovers and trade paperbacks he has listed on Abebooks so they don't have to be moved to the new store. But I haven't yet started entering the titles that came out since May, 2020, and that will take quite a while." I've gone through the records for about 21,000 books that were listed in our computer from the old Uncles, figuring out which ones to re-order and how many of each. "And somewhere along the line I'll need to order new books for the store. "After some of the book shelves are in place, all the books from my house and the storage locker can move to the store, get sorted, and some placed on the shelves and some moved to the basement (where I will need more shelves for the overstock used books)," he continued. In addition, the stores' GoFundMe campaign has raised nearly $200,000.įollowing closing, next on the agenda was redoing the floors in the new location, followed by the installation of bookshelves and lighting. I didn't expect a decision on the grant request to be processed before the closing, but they pushed it through more rapidly than I expected, and the money was available for the closing."īlyly sold the stores' destroyed old site and also received some insurance money. They decided to give me a little over half of what I asked for, which was still a very useful amount of money. "I applied for the maximum amount I could qualify for. In a Facebook update, Blyly noted that Lake Street Council was giving grants to businesses harmed by the 2020 protests. The future home of Uncle Hugo's and Uncle Edgar's (via Google Maps)ĭon Blyly, the owner of Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction Bookstore and Uncle Edgar's Mystery Bookstore in Minneapolis, Minn., which burned to the ground in 2020 during the protests following the murder of George Floyd, has purchased a building some two miles from the stores' old location and hopes to open as early as June.
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