Awesome Sauce: Michigan Shop Moves Books One By One

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is awesome.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
B ninety three, Awesome sauce, start your day on a
positive note. Awesome Sauce six ten weekday mornings with the
B ninety three Morning Show. Maybe not the most efficient
way to get this done, okay, but it was something
to see people helping people. This was on Sunday in Chelsea,
which is just west of Detroit. Three hundred residents formed
a human chain to help move ninety one hundred books

(00:26):
from Serendipity Book's former location to its new storefront a
block away.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
I saw this, and I have some relatives that live
in that town.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Did they help?

Speaker 1 (00:35):
I don't know that they helped. They should have asked.
I didn't realize that it was in Chelsea. It's such
three hundred is like the entire town like that, really,
but yeah, Chelsea's very small.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
I love that the community passed the books one by
one down the sidewalk, placing each directly onto the shelves
of the new shop. Store owner Michelle Tuplin says it
was both a practical and communal way to move. The
store announced the move early this year, and interest from
residents grew rapidly. I love that, tuplint says the entire

(01:06):
move took less than two hours, which was faster than
hiring movers. Isn't that wild, So maybe it was the
most efficient way to get it done. The books even
ended up in alphabetical order on the shelves because you
just take one from how it's currently organized and you
pass it down and then you put them on the
shelf in that exact order.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
I bet they were very worried about that. I would
have been worried about that too, like this has got
to go in the exact order.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
That store has been part of downtown Chelsea since nineteen
ninety seven, and they're shooting to reopen at the new
location within the next couple of weeks. Here Tuplint has
owned Serendipity Books since twenty seventeen and employs three part
time workers, including Casey Friss, who grew up in Chelsea.
She says the event showed how neighbors truly support one another.

(01:52):
She calls the moment a reminder of just how special
their community is.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
That's amazing. That's amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yees. Imagine just like driving down the street going to
get coffee or something in the morning, and that's what
you see. People just lined up along two city blocks
handing books to each other.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
You know what the Chelsea reminds me of is like
a mini mini mini Eta, like that downtown area. Oh cool,
It's it's exactly what it is like there. It's a
very very what's the other place that does the Christmas
lights on the other side of the state, Rich, What
is the name of it? Why can I think of it?

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Rochester?

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yes? Yeah, it's like where I grew up. That's a
small it's a smaller version of Rochester. Like yeah, yeah,
it's very, very very small. So I don't know if
my Sonia and Rich, if they did this, that's who
lives there. Yeah, but I'm gonna ask them today because
three hundred people is the entire town so cool?

Speaker 2 (02:43):
If you've seen the videos online, I mean, it really
was very awesome to see everybody lined up doing this.