Bear Pond Books

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On August 3, 1973, Bear Pond Books first opened its doors in downtown Montpelier. If you were there, you are thirty years older, and like us, have lived in two centuries, which must make us all infinitely wiser (or so we hope). Through those three decades, we have weathered two floods, a major vandalism during our busy holiday season, and a move in 1992 to a larger space in the stately historic brick building at 77 Main St. We would not still be here without the support of all of you, our wonderful and loyal customers. You served us hot soup and helped us inventory water-logged books after the One Hundred Year Flood in 1992. You set up a phone chain to put a call out for people to come help us put the store back together after the vandalism in 1988. You came in full force to help us pack and carry thousands of books across the street to our new store, and you even helped put them back on their new shelves. You kept us heartened with your appreciative calls, letters and e-mails when we decided to remove the titles purchased by customers from our records-in defiance of the chilling violation of First Amendment rights represented in the Patriot's Act. And in October 2003, hundreds of you put on your dancing shoes and helped celebrate our 30th birthday at a dance party at City Hall in a joint celebration with our wonderful business compatriots, Buch Spieler and Onion River Arts Council, both of whom also turned 30 in 2003. Thank you, everyone, for everything.The Bear Pond staff sends you and yours wishes for a happy and healthy 2005. We also send our wishes for peace throughout the world during these troubling times.

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