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Snowbound Summer LbNA #17253

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Aug 5, 2005
Location:
City:Marquette
County:Marquette
State:Michigan
Boxes:1
Planted by:yooperann
Found by: Purple Panther
Last found:Jul 5, 2017
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFFOFFFFaa
Last edited:Sep 27, 2015
Snowbound Books, at 118 North Third Street in Marquette, is easily the best bookstore in a college town with lots of enthusiastic and serious readers. All the local authors, a great collection of natural history books and field guides, an excellent selection of children’s books, and thousands of other new and used books carefully selected and arranged floor to ceiling in the rooms of an old house just half a block off the main downtown street.

The store’s name suggests curling up in front of a fire with a stack of books while a blizzard howls outside. And certainly any serious reader can appreciate that image. But any serious reader also knows that summertime reading has joys of its own. In the long hours of summer daylight, you can swim in Lake Superior in the morning, hike up Sugarloaf in the afternoon, bike out to Presque Isle for a band concert after supper (and find letterboxes at all those places!), and still have enough daylight left to read for an hour or two before bed. Or you can declare that it’s too hot/rainy/buggy for the suggested healthy expedition and spend the whole day reading--moving from the living room couch to the porch swing and back again

This box celebrates the joys of summertime reading. It has been placed with the permission of Snowbound’s owner. Although some of the staff know about it, it’s possible that others do not.

To find it you have to first imagine a different type of reading. Christmas 1948, my father, back from WW II and newly married, was starting his Ph.D at the University of Minnesota. His field was English. One of his textbooks from that first year, a gift from my mother and inscribed with his name and the date on the flyleaf, is "planted" with some other elderly tomes above a doorway. The letterbox is inside that book. You will need your own pen and stamp-pad.

As always, be discreet in your search and your stamping. You may want to take the book outside or to a back room to stamp up. As you can tell once you find the box, it has some very special memories attached and many of us would be very sad if it disappeared. Please also consider making a purchase at Snowbound to show your appreciation for this great independent local business and for their willingness to host the box.

If you’re unsure about store hours, call first. 906.228.4448.