Gerald Winters and Sons Bookstore

[Hill lover35]

Hello everyone, on Tuesday January 16 Gerald winters and sons bookstores suffered a huge pipeline burst and suffered a lot of damage as a result. Let’s all send Gerald some well wishes on this thread to show support.

This is the news article that I read, Thank you all.

Original Stephen King manuscripts among items ruined by downtown water main break — Business — Bangor Daily News — BDN Maine

 

[king family fan]

I feel for him. Hope he can keep his store .

 

[Spideyman]

Thoughts go out to him and his business. This is a tragedy in the book-world.

 

[GNTLGNT]

...Gerald, we all grieve with you....this is a tremendous personal loss, and one that hurts all of us who admire Steve’s work....none of us can fathom how devastated you must feel, but please know we will do whatever we can to try to help you through this.....together....

 

[FlakeNoir]

Oh no, that's just terrible. I'm so sorry to hear this.

 

[Dana Jean]

Hopefully he was well insured. Water damage is horrible to deal with. I am so sorry this happened.

 

[CoriSCapnSkip]

 

[mal]

Hope things turn out well and that nobody was hurt.

 

[cat in a bag]

Oh how awful.

 

[Bev Vincent]

Stephen King ‘horrified’ by loss of his manuscripts in bookstore flooding -- Bangor Daily News

 

[Grant87]

According to the article, he estimates 90 percent of his inventory was ruined.

Man, that sucks. I feel terrible for him.

 

[kingricefan]

This is just horrible. I cannot imagine what he's dealing with. Such devastation.

 

[Tery]

How awful! Priceless, irreplaceable manuscripts, too. Just terrible

 

[Blake]

I just read the news before I logged on, I feel sad for the guy because he's obviously extremely passionate. I hope all his stuff was insured. I know he can't replace the stuff that's damaged but in the long run it seems no one was hurt and that's the main thing.

 

[Hill lover35]

Stephen King ‘horrified’ by loss of his manuscripts in bookstore flooding -- Bangor Daily News

Thanks Vince for posting. I was wondering if king was going to respond

 

[Moderator]

Thanks Vince for posting. I was wondering if king was going to respond

Steve asked me to call Gerald, which I did yesterday, and offered to do a book signing.

 

[Hill lover35]

No

Steve asked me to call Gerald, which I did yesterday, and offered to do a book signing.

That was so nice. Gerald did post on his Facebook page. He was able to recover some original manuscripts

 

[Hill lover35]

This is what he posted along with picutres.




Gerald Winters and Son added 6 new photos.
7 hrs ·
Thank you everyone that has wrote to me offering condolences, assistance and their prayers. I will try my best to write to you all in due time, to thank you personally.

I am here 20 hours a day alone, trying to recover as many Stephen King and Tolkien pieces as I can, as my family are overseas and can only offer merits that they pray for. Please don't take my absence in replying as rude. I only go home to sleep a few hours and feed my pets.

Pennywise gave his best, and it was a truly devastating blow, but I will persevere, and fight on in the face of adversity. I have my family to thank for that.

Several original manuscripts have been recovered last night and
I am still looking for more.

God Bless.

 

[Hill lover35]

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[Neesy]

Steve asked me to call Gerald, which I did yesterday, and offered to do a book signing.

Good for him! Sincere condolences to Gerald and hope he can get back on his feet again ((((Gerald))))