Volunteers keep Concord bookstore afloat while owner recuperates

Lynn Kuehl’s Berkshire Books store on Clayton Road has always been essentially a one-man operation. And if not for the assemblage of some two dozen volunteers who helped keep the store open in late November and most of December, it would have been a literal no-man’s land.

Kuehl, who has owned the small shop for 15 years, had an aneurysm in his right knee in early November, and lost the leg to amputation. He’s back now, and soon expects to be fitted with a prosthetic leg.