Why a Michigan community formed a human chain to move 9,100 books, one at a time [Video]

Moving is easy when you get 300 of your closest friends to help out. 

When Serendipity Books in Chelsea, Mich., needed to move 9,100 books to the store’s new location one block away, they assembled a volunteer “book brigade” to form a human chain, and pass each book, one-by-one, to its new home. 

“We had people from five, six years old, all the way through to 91. Somebody brought their dog. And everybody was kind of having a bit of a street party as they were passing the books,” Michelle Tuplin, the store’s owner, told As It Happens host Nil Köksal.

“People were singing. They were telling stories. They were reviewing the books as they moved along. You know, there was lots of excitement as they got to the romance section. It was just so fun.”

Section by section, in alphabetical order

Serendipity Books didn’t do this to save on money or labour, Tuplin said. In fact, she hired movers to come …