CEO of Books-A-Million came to my town a few days ago...

I didn't know where to post this, but I knew it would be adequately appreciated on AW.

A local 3rd grader (I teach 3rd at a different school) wanted a Books-A-Million in town and started a letter writing campaign to get one. He got the word from the CEO himself that we would be getting a store! So encouraging and makes me proud!

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2010/12/the-small-town-books-a-million-miracle.html

From the New Yorker article:

Given the more-or-less constant barrage of sad news about bookstores closing their doors, it’s easy to imagine a sort of anti-intellectual Grinch gleefully rubbing his hands together in anticipation of a bookless Christmas this year. (“I must stop children from reading!” he exclaims, smashing a Kindle and dumping stack after forlorn stack of paperbacks into his sack.)

But, as the season’s first snow flurries fell in New York yesterday morning, we awoke to news of a Christmas miracle in a faraway land. Could it be? Charlie McClurg, a third-grader in Dalton, Georgia, wished for a bookstore. But instead of sending his request to Santa Claus, he launched a letter-writing campaign begging Books-A-Million to open a branch in his hometown. On Friday, the Dalton Daily Citizen reports, Clyde B. Anderson, the Books-A-Million chairman and C.E.O, came to Westwood Elementary School to deliver the good news: a new bookstore will indeed open at the nearby Walnut Square Mall, perhaps even in time for Christmas.​

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