'Sitka deserved to be a literary community': Old Harbor Books celebrates 50th birthday

'Sitka deserved to be a literary community': Old Harbor Books celebrates 50th birthday

Old Harbor Books was bustling with customers on Saturday for the shop’s 50th anniversary. (KCAW/McKenney) Sitka’s local bookstore celebrated its 50th birthday on Saturday. Throughout the afternoon, locals wandered into the downtown shop to buy a book, eat a cupcake, and reminisce on five decades of the community hub. 50 years ago, to buy a book, Sitkans had to call up the bookstore in Juneau and have it mailed to the island. So in 1976, three fa…