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Bibliophiles, rejoice: A new bookstore is coming to Windham
Sherman’s Maine Coast Book Shops announced late last month that the local bookstore chain is opening a new location in Windham this summer, as well as locations in Topsham and Rockland.
By Emily BaderLakes Region Weekly
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Sherman’s Maine Coast Book Shops will open at the Windham Mall this summer. The original Sherman’s of Bar Harbor opened in 1886 as “W.H. Sherman, Printer & Stationer,” and is the oldest bookstore in Maine and one of the oldest in the country, according to its current owners.
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Maine s oldest book store has survived two world wars, the great depression, the great recession, the COVID-19 pandemic and a world of online book sales and digital downloads. It s an impressive feat for Sherman s Maine Coast Book Shops which has announced that it is expanding by adding three new stores across Maine.
Sherman s gets its name from Bill Sherman who opened up W.H. Sherman, Printer & Stationer in Bar Harbor in 1886 after buying a printing press. The business began to focus more on books at the turn of the century and as of 2021, has been in business for 135 years.
The original store in Bar Harbor is still there, but over the years additional Sherman s Book Shops have opened up in Boothbay Harbor, Freeport, Damariscotta and Portland a. Now Sherman s Maine Coast Book Shops is opening up three new stores, two of which will be the first locations not in a costal Maine town.
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