BookCourt in Brooklyn has launched a fundraising campaign on Indiegogo to buy the Bibliobarn in the Catskills and rename it BookCourt North: Bookshop, Event Space, and Writers’ Retreat. Should they raise the $300,000 needed to buy and renovate the Bibliobarn, which opened for business in 1996, BookCourt would convert the second floor into a writers’ retreat, host events on within the barn and on the five acres of land surrounding it, and possibly open a cafe. Current owners H.L & Linda Wilson put the property for sale and hope to move to a nearby Catskills town. Children’s bookstore Edgewater Books […]
