Letterpress Books & Gifts, Portland, Maine, has expanded, more than doubling its size from 800 sq. feet to 2,000 sq. feet, "with double the window frontage, twice as many books, greeting cards, puzzles, and brand new displays offering lots of Maine Made gift items.... Now we will have room for Storytime, more Meet & Greet events, and book clubs, with a Gamers gathering on Sunday evenings--so exciting," the bookshop posted on Facebook.
"We are celebrating eleven years in business this month and have now added two more staff so we are having twice as much fun," said owner Katherine Osborne. "Our customers meet their friends here; students see their teachers shopping here. Letterpress is becoming a gathering place. The plaza owner says we brought culture to the neighborhood."
Letterpress hosted a grand reopening celebration last month, with Chris Van Dusen meeting with the kids in the morning and Monica Wood signing her new How to Read a Book in the afternoon.