There are 100 steps from Curious Iguana bookstore on 12 N. Market Street to the Dancing Bear Toys and Games at 15 E. Patrick Street in downtown Frederick. Tom and Marlene England learned this by repetition when they moved Dancing Bear from the storefront that is now Curious Iguana to its current location. Appropriately, perhaps, they moved their inventory of toys and games in wagons, a whimsical sight on the sidewalk, no doubt striking wonder in the hearts of young pedestrians who witnessed the event.

There are some who have asked whether Dancing Bear is connected to its sister store by some secret passageway. While the 100 steps counted door-to-door is evidence that no such short cut exists, the idea that one could exist is plausible and befitting for two stores designed to stir the imag

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