Search the University and Main archives for previously run articles. The April 8 date is the earliest for the spring sale since it started nearly 10 years ago, according to long-time volunteer Linda Connell. She says there is no malice to sleepyheads involved in picking this Saturday. It was just about the only place on the calendar where the sale seemed to fit. The fall sale is traditionally a little bigger.
More books are available and more are sold.
Now anybody taking a peek in the book house this week would find it hard to believe the sale could be any bigger. The shelves are packed and there are boxes and boxes of books in reserve. Seems like there's no room to squeeze any more books in the place. Children's books and cook books are the two most popular categories, and Connell said those looking on those tables are in luck. In the collectors' corner there are some treasures, including some beautiful coffee table books, according to Connell.