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| Angela Shores | |
Adventure Bound Books, Morganton, N.C., which opened in June 2018, is moving to 117 W. Union St. this summer, the News-Herald reported, adding that this is the third relocation in as many years as the bookseller continues to expand.
"We are going to begin the moving process August 1," said owner Angela Shores. "The hope is to be completely moved and mostly settled by August 21 when we do our Bookstore Romance Day celebration."
At about 3,000 square feet, the new location is roughly double the store's current space, and substantially larger than Adventure Bound's initial location, which was 550 square feet.
Describing the move as "incredible" and "hopeful," Shores said, "It is extremely meaningful (to be able to grow). From the very beginning, the intention and vision for the bookstore has been to not only provide access to stories through selling books, but to also support the community through those stories, finding their own stories and telling their own stories. That's one of the reasons we're doing poetry nights and writing contests and we have story hour for kids and storybook camp.
"Getting into a bigger space is going to provide an opportunity for us to continue doing that programming and community outreach activities that I'm so passionate about. I'm really excited about being able to launch an after-school program for young readers and writers around the idea of storytelling."
The bookstore also recently launched the Adventure Bound Scholarship "to encourage the pursuit of the recipient's dreams through a direct, one-time investment in the post-secondary educational path of their choice," the News-Herald noted, adding that Shores "believes in a people's ability to positively change the world in which they live and strives to support dreamers and world-changers in many ways, including starting the bookstore and the scholarship."