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  • Ethical Humanism
    • Ethical Culture History
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  • Meet Us
    • Member Page
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    • Our Core Values
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    • SVES Board
    • Join a Team
    • Membership
    • Volunteer Form
    • Gallery
  • Action
    • Living Ethics Awards
    • Foster Child Project
    • 2020 AEU BLM Statement
    • 2020 AEU Supporting Death w/ Dignity
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    • Death Penalty Opposition
    • Poor People's Campaign
    • BEAR BUDDY
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    • LGBTQA Resources
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  • Calendar
    • 1st Sunday Topical Presentation
    • 2nd Sunday Living Ethics
    • 3rd Sunday: Topic to Enlighten & Discuss
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    • Events in the Community
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    • Adult Education
    • Teens
    • Children/Youth/Teens
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  SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY ETHICAL SOCIETY
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Now meeting virtually

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9:30 AM - 10:45 AM

 Ethical Society 1st Sunday Program
Sunday, March 7
​​9:30 AM - 10:45 AM


​Join ​us virtually HERE:  bit.ly/39DJeAbSVES - PASSCODE: FelixA
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​MARCH 4, 2017 BY SARAJANE
the river of books part 1
Mondragon is a used bookstore. As such, it’s an eddy in the river of books that courses through the world. New bookstores? Some are hydropower dams on the river–books move through there with great force and a sole purpose: generating electricity, also known as money. They have a kind of awful beauty to them–and a kind of manic stress. Libraries, on the other hand,  are the thalweg–the lowest point along the bottom of the river, the deep current, the part that will still keep flowing even in a draught, the part we can depend on.  (People who run libraries, though, are the people advocating for kayak put-ins and riverwalks and river awareness).
Here at Mondragon, you will find the curious peaceful backwater in the river of books. You will find things here that you won’t find anywhere else. You might find a species you thought was extinct. The books may be filled with stories, but how the books got here are stories in themselves. All of them have come from someone. They come in bags and boxes. Sometimes there’s a person, hatchback open at the curb, car weighted down with treasure. Sometimes there are a couple bags left in front of the door during the closed hours. People are moving, retiring, downsizing, making room for fresh books. People bring books that belonged to people who have died. Some have bookplates pasted in them. Others have underlines and side commentary. Some have personal notes or receipts or photos or pressed flowers in the pages. As this ephemera accumulates, it will someday have its own home in the backwater, a little moss-covered shrine honoring the river gods and the things they carry in their current.
Sarajane Snyder has been running Mondragon Books in Lewisburg PA since 2017. The bookstore, started as a collective in 2009 led by elder Charles Sackrey, has its roots in community well-being and an alternative model of what businesses can offer to a community.
Sarajane will discuss the development of Mondragon as a "community-supported bookstore" and lead a conversation about future possibilities for the bookstore & the community.

We Would Love to Have You Visit Soon!

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Susquehanna Valley Ethical Society is a tax exempt organization described in section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code.  Upon request, the Susquehanna Valley Ethical Society will provide a copy of the group exemption letter to any interested party.

PictureSVES is an affiliate of the American Ethical Union.

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Hours: Sunday: 9:30 am -10:45 am