At the fair, Max watched literary enthusiasts geek out over out-of-print and rare books “at a time when internet book sales are threatening other fairs across the country,” he wrote us, and caught up with some of the 88 vendors. One elderly visitor told him she’d found an antique kid’s book she read as a kid.

One of them was local Bill Wolfe, who owns Louis Collins Books in Haller Lake and has helped organize the book fair for six years.

“Just like a museum, booksellers hold onto these cultural artifacts and pass them on to the next generation,” Bill told him. “This is a chance to see 88 little museums.”

This year’s Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair was held in memory of Louis Collins, the namesake of Louis Collins Books and longtime organizer of the fair. Read about his amazing contributions to Seattle’s literary scene here.

There’s a ton of awesome stuff to do around our city every week. We love rounding rad events to help you meet your neighbors, join interesting conversations, decompress from your week, have an excuse to Insta your food pics, and find something fun to do with your fam.

So to help you scan for the kinds of events you most like, we use a little emoji code to sort them out. Here’s a quick guide on how to make the most of our events, below.

• 💡: Consider new ideas
• 💪: Learn a new skill
• 🗣: Hear from your neighbors
• 👋: Meet your neighbors
• 🎈: Take the kids
• 🎶, 🎟, 🍿, 🎨, 🍴, 🍸, ⚽️, 💃: Enjoy music, live performance, film and TV, art, food, drink, sports, and dance, respectively

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Now let’s help you make some plans…

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Quick reminder! The deadline for these two jobs on our WhereBy.Us storytelling team is this Friday, Oct. 26. We’re hiring a social producer to help us up our social meme skills, and a senior producer to help us have even more fun with our newsletters. Know someone great? We’d love to hear from you.

Make it a great week, Seattle. — The Evergrey