The Bookends & Beginnings 10th anniversary celebration and auctions, one of which began late last week, are being postponed. The sad reason: Nina Barrett, who owns the Evanston, Ill., store, has come down with Covid. As she noted in an announcement about the postponement, "ironically [this is] my first bout with it, despite our having stayed open and operating and healthy throughout almost all of the deepest pandemic months!"
Ticket purchases will be refunded, and the store hopes to reschedule the event and auctions in the fall. The Endowed Chair program continues.