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Mount Airy: Sheila Avelin Making Community Connections at Big Blue Marble Bookstore

September 23, 2016 Taylor Newstat Schwartz

Sheila Avelin, owner and manager of Big Blue Marble Bookstore in Mount Airy, strives to maintain a cozy and accessible literary space within the fast-paced technological world. Located at 551 Carpenter Lane, Big Blue Marble is nestled in

Arts and Entertainment

Mount Airy: Big Blue Marble Bookstore’s Reading Club Binds Community

May 31, 2012

The Big Blue Marble Bookstore, located at 551 Carpenter Lane in West Mount Airy, is the place where a group of women meet monthly to discuss books about women. The Women of the World Book

Arts and Entertainment

Mount Airy: Published Writer Contributing to Growing Literary Community

March 20, 2012

Minter Krotzer decided she wanted to teach others how to do what she did: write. So just months after her move to Mount Airy in 2007, Krotzer, the Big Blue Marble Bookstore’s writer-in-residence, began teaching.

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