Diane Capriola- Part Owner of Little Shop of Stories

“We have become such a part of the community that little shop is a place that families come not just to buy books, but to be a part of the community. So I have this story that I like to tell that on Sunday mornings I’ll come in really early before the shop opens and I’ll kind of sit in the dark to try and get work done before the shop opens. And every Sunday that I do that, I hear someone tugging at the door trying to get in and I hear the parent having the conversation with their little kid like, ‘Oh their not open, they don’t open until noon.’ And almost always the kid is upset and the mom has to reassure that, ‘they will go back, they will go back.’ But there was this one morning, just recently, that that happened and I heard a little kid tugging on the door. The mom said, ‘Oh no, not yet,’ and the child expressed disappointment about it. They might have even started crying and the mom said, ‘Yeah, it’s one of my favorite places too.’ And it was just such a powerful moment to know what we are to the community,”