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Hop on the bus and experience a day of fun and discovery in New York City when you join the “Greenwich Village Booklovers Adventure” on Saturday, June 2, 2012. A coach will transport you from New Bedford, MA to Greenwich Village, a wonderful New York City neighborhood filled with unique shops, restaurants, art galleries and eighteen exciting independent and specialty bookstores. You will also discover literary sites associated with writers such as Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac, Sinclair Lewis, Edna St. Vincent Millay and many more.
Greenwich Village is a rare neighborhood that boasts among its many attractions eighteen unique and exciting independent bookstores, all within easy walking distance of each other. Just a few of the bookstores you can visit include Three Lives and Company, the quintessential old-fashioned bookstore with a significant literary reputation; the Strand Bookstore, the world’s largest used bookstore (18 miles of books); Books of Wonder, New York City’s largest children’s bookstore; Partners and Crime, the largest mystery bookstore in Manhattan; and Bonny Slotnik Cookbooks, specializing in used, out-of-print and antiquarian cookbooks from all over the world.
To add to the fun, you can join Alan and Helene Korolenko for a walk through Greenwich Village. The walk takes you past many literary, cultural and historic sites in this historic and lively neighborhood along with stops at bookstores. If you prefer, you can explore this fascinating neighborhood on your own.
Total cost per person comes to only $70.00. This price includes the bus, light refreshments, guide materials, literary walking tour, and all administrative costs. Please e-mail korolenko8523@charter.net for additional information and to assure space is available.
So don’t miss this great opportunity to spend June 2, 2012 exploring legendary Greenwich Village and discover one of the most interesting and exciting neighborhoods in the world.
