Dear Folks,

         The Devon St. Neighbors got together last week and for the third year in a row buzzed around the station like elves at the North Pole and decorated it.  The shop is now all lit up and looking quite fine. Please come join them this Friday night, December 2 for the first of our Friday night open houses, starting when it's dark. We'll have a fire outside, the makings for s'mores, other food and drink, and a chance to shop both outside and inside until 9 p.m. (or later if the party is good.)  This Friday, we'll also have live music by one of our favorite singer/songwriters, Sharon Abbott. I hear that she has been practicing some holiday favorites, maybe even on her new toys, 2 dulcimers.

       We also hope to have a DVD projector set up to show kid's movies on the side of the van. Who knows, maybe there will even be fresh popcorn. Newsworks.org, the WHYY website that covers events in Mt. Airy, Germantown, Chestnut Hill, and Manayunk has a feature on the event with some pictures of the station and past open houses.  Please follow the link and  take a look and comment and perhaps they'll give us more press in the future.

       We hope you'll consider buying holiday gifts from us. We have been featuring books in a weekly blog on our website and in your email boxes. I have wondered if the blog is too big for some folks' servers so if you haven't been getting it please let me know and I'll try to adapt. We also have gift certificates in any amount and we'll use our knowledge of our stock to help you put together a Bookstack with a particular theme for a particular friend.

      If you visit our calendar, you'll see that we will have other open houses, with the same fire, s'mores, and other goodies on every Friday night till Christmas and on Sunday afternoons from 12-4. We hope to be able to get more music and will get back to you when that's set up.

Take care

Greg and Cynthia