Artsy_Bookworm

When the pandemic hit our community, our owner, Tamara Felden, was looking for ways to help our town. Being a life-long educator and lover of literature and art, opening a bookstore made sense. Fast forward to today, and you'll find a place that welcomes those often not well served in the book selling market, and where one finds curated special sections on Black and Native American, LGBTQ+ and Neuro-diverse history, literature and culture. Our Mission: • To offer a safe space that is welcoming to everyone and where all interact with kindness and good will toward each other. • To carry merchandise that reflects our customers’ desire to make positive contributions to our community, our environment, and our local economy. • To carry books that offer windows into the lives, experience, cultures and histories of different people. • To be a place where our customers find themselves reflected in the things we sell or perhaps discover something new that broadens their perspective of others. • To provide space for local artists and authors to show and sell their work. • To source our merchandise from environmentally friendly, organic, cruelty-free, and fair-trade producers, from Black and women-owned businesses, and from unique makers around the world. • To be helpful. Social justice takes many forms. So does business. Let’s work together to make things better! We hear you, we see you, we appreciate you, and we strive every day to be a place where you can be comfortable, feel at home, and perhaps find that wonderful next read that reflects you and also opens new perspectives. If you are visiting our store, we hope that you will support our efforts by purchasing and proudly displaying the merchandise with our logo. Thank you!