Huxley & Hiro Hosts: Ask Ingram Anything
Event Details
Huxley & Hiro in Wilmington, DE, will be hosting a NAIBA Social/Educational event on Monday, May 19th at 12 pm in their upper level event space.
Ingram staff will be on hand to, well, answer anything! A pizza lunch will be provided.
All staff members of current NAIBA member stores are invited. Registration is required to help us plan.
Meet Your Hosts Claire & Ryan
Imagine this scenario: Two graduate students find themselves seated side by side during a flight from San Francisco to Eugene, Oregon, where they both lived. An instant connection sparks between them, and a decade later, they become the proud owners of a charming bookstore nestled in the heart of downtown Wilmington. While this tale seems plucked from the pages of a captivating novel, it’s not a work of fiction.
Little did Claire van den Broeck and Ryan Eanes know when their paths crossed in 2012 that they would one day become business partners. “We just immediately felt like we had been friends forever,” van den Broeck says. “There is such a thing as platonic friendship at first sight.” Call it kismet, fate’s gentle nudge or the universe orchestrating a narrative fit for the shelves of their own bookstore.
Soon after, Eanes landed a job in Delaware. During a visit from van den Broeck in 2017, he introduced her to a Wilmington gem, the Ninth Street Book Shop. The closure of this beloved store would serve as the catalyst for the bibliophiles’ shared inspiration—to eventually open a place of their own.