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| Inkwood's current location; the new store will be just down the road. | |
Julie Beddingfield, owner of Inkwood Books in East Haddonfield, N.J., has decided to go ahead with moving her store to a new location, which she has planned to do since last year.
In a Facebook post announcing her decision, she reported that the store has been closed for two weeks and she expects to be closed for at least another month. The closure, she continued, forced her to "think long and hard" about whether moving the store was a smart thing to do amid so much uncertainty and risk. But, having seen the ways in which her community rallied over the past two weeks, including delivering flowers and pizzas to health care workers, sewing masks, shopping local and more, she and her team are now "inspired, we have hope, and we're doing it!"
The new space won't have the "fancy displays, inventory and fun stuff" that Beddingfield envisioned, at least not for a while, and she won't be asking all the community members who volunteered to help with the move to lend a hand. Once the store can reopen, though, she will continue to "offer a curated selection of books for all ages, and perhaps more importantly, host our friends and neighbors who will once-again need and crave gathering together."