Dear Friends,

Just in the last week, green and pink and yellow of all shades have taken over the view from my shop window and how lovely it is. I looked at last year’s letter and by this time it was 90 degrees and we’d already had several concerts. I’m glad we were a little more cautious this year in planning our Spring events. In fact, the one thing we had planned – having a booth at the Philadelphia Public Library book show was severely hampered by heavy rains. But I’m hoping sunny mild days are ahead for we have a full array of events scheduled:

 

All May ALL Books in the shop 30% OFF.  We are swamped with great books. We are especially strong in cars, cinema, children’s books, African American, Philadelphia, foreign language material – come and find treasures at incredibly low prices.

 

Saturday May 14 and Saturday May 28 are our spring Yard Sales. Fun, fun, fun! If you need to clean out your attic, call us and reserve a space. Buyers also needed and wanted.

 

Saturday May 7, we will be exhibiting at Mt. Airy Day, at Cliveden on Germantown Ave. 

 

Saturday, May 21^st Now in it’s second year The

 

Philadelphia Vintage Book & Ephemera Fair. We’ll be there with some great books. For more info visit the web site, www.flamingoeventz.com and click on calendar and then the Philly Stakes book. For a $1 discount on the price of admission, print out this page and show it to John or Tina at admissions.

 

Our free concert series has bands already lined up from now till mid-August and we plan to go through October. This is summer at it’s best – good music, good friends, and now we also will have, for sale, food from Weaver’s Way Co-op. As always call or check our web site calendar for updates:

 

Friday, May 6, 7-9, great compositions, super musicianship, fine harmonies of Acoustic Blender

 

Friday, May 13, 7-9, interesting instrumentation, great voices & great wackiness of St. Mad

 

Friday, May 20,7-9, the soulfully soaring singing of reggae to rock by                                                                             Aaron Mitchell

 

Saturday, May 28, 7-9. huge repertoire, great arrangements, and fine voices of Prose from Dover

By the way, we will continue last year’s tradition of funding the entire concert series with one big fun and fund-raiser –Walk-a-Palooza II – again this year at the Lutheran Theological Seminary of Philadelphia on Sunday July 24. Be there or be square !

 

     I hope you've been enjoying our website as much as we have been. Thanks for the encouragement and feedback we've been getting. Please feel free to make suggestions. 

 

    We have another wedding this summer – Cynthia’s lovely daughter Emily is marrying Chris Santini on July 2 in State College. We’ll be there with bells on –watch the website to see if we’re open that weekend. And to catch you up on our living situation, Cynthia and I have moved in with Cynthia’s proudly 89 year old mother, Dorothy Guy, where we are enjoying the copziness of the third floor. This multigenerational living is working out well for everyone.                                        Be well, come visit