{"id":3272,"date":"2014-03-03T15:49:14","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T20:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=3272"},"modified":"2014-07-11T16:36:58","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T20:36:58","slug":"a-smashing-opening-of-a-favorite-bookstore-the-uconn-co-op","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/miscellaneous\/a-smashing-opening-of-a-favorite-bookstore-the-uconn-co-op\/","title":{"rendered":"A Smashing Opening of a Favorite Bookstore: The UConn Co-op"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Readers

Readers packed the UConn Coop during the Grand Opening Saturday, March 1, 2014<\/p><\/div>\n

Book lovers flocked to the Grand Opening of the UConn Co-op Bookstore at Storrs Center<\/a>, CT, this weekend.\u00a0 The ribbon-cutting event jointly celebrated the opening of the Bookstore, the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry<\/a>, and\u00a0Le Petit March\u00e9 Caf\u00e9<\/a>, which share the contiguous space.\u00a0 More people came than were expected Saturday afternoon, March 1st<\/sup>, and the celebration was super fun.<\/p>\n

\"Writer

Writer and Manager of the General Books Division at the Coop, Suzy Staubach, with friends Nan Sorensen and George Gibson.<\/p><\/div>\n

After welcoming speeches from notables including Suzy Staubach, John Bell, and Sally Weis, members of the community took tours, browsed, and sampled French pastries from the caf\u00e9.\u00a0 Local authors Wally Lamb<\/a>, Sam Pickering<\/a>, Ellen Litman<\/a>, and a dozen others mingled with friends and readers.\u00a0 Meanwhile, the UConn a cappella<\/i> singing group, The Chordials<\/a>, performed several contemporary numbers, and a live jazz combo followed.<\/p>\n

\"Director

Director of the Ballard, John Bell, with Sarah Nolen.<\/p><\/div>\n

On the puppetry front, Anne Fitzgerald<\/a>\u2019s two performances of her new puppet arts production, Reverse Cascade<\/i>, were filled to capacity, and the new exhibits featured exquisitely detailed puppets and photographs highlighting the history of puppetry.\u00a0 I was especially delighted by a photo of Maggie Gyllenhaal and Muppet friends defining the word \u201cSurprise!\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Distinguished

Distinguished members of the Ballard Collection<\/p><\/div>\n

Let\u2019s face it.\u00a0 Readers in our corner of Connecticut have long been fans of the UConn Coop Bookstore, but now that it has more of a chance to breathe in its new location, it\u2019s better than ever.\u00a0 What other bookstore shares space with puppets and cinnamon banana crepes?\u00a0 Saturday\u2019s celebration showed again how books, art, music, friendship, and a little sweetness are at the center of our community. \u00a0Congratulations!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Book lovers flocked to the Grand Opening of the UConn Co-op Bookstore at Storrs Center, CT, this weekend.\u00a0 The ribbon-cutting event jointly celebrated the opening of the Bookstore, the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry, and\u00a0Le Petit March\u00e9 Caf\u00e9, which share the contiguous space.\u00a0 More people came than were expected Saturday afternoon, March 1st, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3272"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3580,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272\/revisions\/3580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}