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Helping kids and getting them interested in Lincoln
11-20-2013, 06:49 PM
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Helping kids and getting them interested in Lincoln
Every year Barnes and Noble has a Holiday Book Drive in which individual stores pick various youth groups or schools whose students otherwise might not get a book and then ask customers to purchase one or more which will then be donated to them. I had an idea this year that I would like to share in case some of you are wondering how you could help some local kids and just maybe get them interested in Lincoln.

There are a number of very good juvenile biographies of Lincoln below $10 (some below $5). If you purchased a couple and donated them next time you are in your local BN, that might just be the spark to start someone down the same road we've all traveled. I'm donating three.

Just a thought.

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11-20-2013, 09:23 PM
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RE: Helping kids and getting them interested in Lincoln
Barnes & Noble has closed a lot of stores in our area. Do they have an online drive where you can donate?
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11-20-2013, 10:01 PM
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RE: Helping kids and getting them interested in Lincoln
Unfortunately not. The closest store to Clinton is the Potomac Yard store in Alexandria or the downtown Washington store. Since each store decides who it will help, I don't think the corporate office believes doing it on a national scale would be effective.

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Rob

Abraham Lincoln in the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
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11-20-2013, 10:13 PM (This post was last modified: 11-21-2013 10:52 AM by brtmchl.)
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RE: Helping kids and getting them interested in Lincoln
Toys for Tots also accepts books for pre teen and teen donations. You can donate at any Marine Corps Recruiter or Toys R Us. There is also a website that can tell you of other drop-off locations by County.

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11-21-2013, 10:07 AM
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That's great to know. There is a Toys R Us just a mile from Surratt House.
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11-21-2013, 10:31 AM (This post was last modified: 11-21-2013 12:52 PM by Gene C.)
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RE: Helping kids and getting them interested in Lincoln
While your there shopping, I'd like the Easy Bake Microwave Dutch Oven Commemorative Civil War Set, with Mess Kit, and a few extra packets of the Hard Tack dog biscuit mix for Fido

(I don't think we can count on Santa this year)

So when is this "Old Enough To Know Better" supposed to kick in?
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