Claude Moore Colonial Farm News
Anna Eberly
Hi Folks,
I was having problems with my email yesterday so I'm a day late sending this to you. The Bookstore will be open today, Wednesday, from 3 to 8 pm and the ac and fans are on. We've cleared out last week's half price books and today's half price categories are Sports, Foreign Language and Biography. We've also added more books, of course.
If you haven't been to our book sales and store before, this is how our operation works. All of the books that we sell have been donated to us, most people just drop by with anything from a box to a van load and we've had as many as 6 different donations in one day. We also receive books through our good friend, Phil Hanson, at The Old Book Company of McLean, since when people downsize or have to settle an estate they quite often are looking for a buyer. Since Phil is offered many more books than he ever needs, he accepts book donations for us at the store or sends the book owners directly to the Farm. Then every week to ten days, we take our large van over to the store and fill it up. Opening the boxes is most fun, of course. We have our garage set up with bookshelves so all the books go on the shelves for "sifting" and pricing. If you have been to the sales, you've seen the various sections of "priced but not sorted", those are the "new" books. The next step is to sort and shelve them into the almost 60 categories we have developed. Most hardback books are priced in the $1 to $3 range with some going for more if we either think they are worth it or we just like them. Occasionally we will look a book up on a book value website if it is especially old or intriguing to us but most of the time we just price it. If there are too many books in a category to fit on the available shelf space we box and store them. Once we have a few boxes in a category, we will put the shelved books on sale for half off, clear them out for donation to Goodwill after Wednesday's sale and then bring in the new books for the following week. It's a great system if we follow it but last November we stopped having sales and kept accepting books which turned into a mess. Hence we now have weekly sales which is a lot like being chased down the road by a tractor trailer load of used books. If we don't keep just slightly ahead, we'll be flattened again. And we still have two 40' sea containers full of books which date from an earlier period (pre "Enlightenment") of accepting books but not having sales. Remember that our book sales are run completely by volunteers and we are always looking for helpers. Every Tuesday evening from 5 to 8 pm, we unpack, shelve, price and sort books so if you'd like to join us, just send me, or Marg at marg@1771.org, a note.
We also have a Hearth Cooking Workshop coming up on June 11 (reservations at work...@1771.org) and the 18th Century Wheat Harvest on June 19. So please join us at the Farm, you're always welcome here.
aeb...@1771.org
Hi Folks,
The Book Store will be open tomorrow, Wednesday, from 3 to 8 pm as usual.
Books in Photography, Film, Fine Art, Theater, Music, Architecture,
Archeology and Craft categories will be half price. We have not added many
new books this week because we have been haying so that the farm's animals
have food to eat this winter. However, Marg will continue putting out some
of the interesting old books that she comes across.
Also, please don't forget some of the special events that the 18th century
Farm has coming up. Sunday, June 19th from 1 until 4 pm is the farm families
annual Wheat Harvest. Come help the farm family harvest their Wheat and Rye
crops that they planted last October so that they may have flour to make
bread this winter. The farm wife will also be baking wheat bread in the
hearth.
In addition, have you ever wondered what it would be like to actually live
like you were in 1771? Now's your chance! From Friday evening June 24
through June 26, the farm will be hosting the Colonial Living Experience
(CLE). Here, participants get a full immersion in 18th century life where
they camp out, perform chores, cook and live like they were really living in
1771 for the entire weekend. Reservations are required for this program, so
if you're interested, please e-mail Richard Webb at rw...@1771.org for more
information.
Thank you so much for your continued support of the Farm. We deeply
appreciate it.
Anna Eberly
Managing Director
PS, we now take credit cards for our book sales
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