In 1988, Maumee Valley Country Day School was looking for a place to hold a charity book fair for the school. They reached out to one of their local alumnae, Virginia Secor Stranahan, and asked if they could hold a book fair in the historic barn on her property. Her response was likely her characteristic, “well, why don’t ‘cha?”

After a successful book fair weekend in 1989, there were still many bo…