Thursday, December 8, 2022

Indie Book Trees

 Let's take another quick visit to Owego, New York, once named "The coolest small town in America".

Since 1976, Owego has had an indie bookstore, Riverow Books.  This is one of their traditions:

Christmas trees made out of books!

I hadn't been there since COVID, so I don't know how new this third tree is.  The items in the middle of the tree are books that have been cut to make works of art.  It's hard to see, but I didn't have a good place to set up the photo as there were people around and I didn't want to get them in the photo.

Next spring, Owego will be even cooler because a second bookstore is opening in the village.  It will be called Spellbound Books.

Imagine...a village of just around 3900 people having two indie bookstores.

The town Owego is in (a town in New York is a subdivision of a county), also called Owego, has around 19,000 people, incidentally.

Riverow, (and Owego) incidentally, are well worth the visit. 


9 comments:

  1. Huntington, NY had an indie for decades, but it closed a few months ago. A new bookstore opened up this week. People like bookstores.

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  2. Great idea. More bookstores should do similar. And since they have to destroy some books that they can't sell, what better way to recycle them?

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  3. One more thing to be envious of! We just got our first bookstore. In a town of 20,000 people, we have three indoor ice arenas and four or five outdoor, baseball diamonds by the score, ditto soccer fields (One indoor.) and one full sized football field. But do we have any performing arts centers? Or anything to encourage the artistic youth? Nope. We do have a nice--albeit small--library.
    Sigh.

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  4. A beautiful, interesting type of trees!

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  5. Wonderful Trees created with books ~ What a great little town ~ Xo

    Wishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
    A ShutterBug Explores,
    aka (A Creative Harbor)

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  6. There are books that I'll agree deserve to be defaced that way, but I don't read one every year. I hate to see books trashed like that.

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  7. Well, paper comes from trees so turn-about is fair play!

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