The UConn Co-op Bookstore at Storrs Center in downtown Storrs, Conn., celebrated its grand opening Saturday, along with its partners the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry and Le Petit Marché Café. More than 500 people attended, including authors Wally Lamb, Ellen Litman, Barbara McClintock, David Johnson, Sam Pickering, Wendell Minor, Florence Minor, Heather Webb, Ron Mallett and Bruce Cohen. Illustrator David Johnson, who is working on a project to draw 2,000 portraits of authors, exhibited his drawings of Connecticut authors.
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Suzy Staubach, head of general books at the UConn Co-op, with Ron Mallett, author of Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality. |
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There was music, treats from the café, exhibits, two performances of the puppet show Reverse Cascade and giveaways. Posting from the grand opening, blogger Edmund Chibeau wrote, "Rumors of the death of the codex have been greatly exaggerated. Books are thriving at the UConn Co-op."
In November, the bookstore opened in this new 15,000-square-foot space, which features general books and art books. Textbooks, clothing, computers and art supplies remain in the old, on-campus location.