We have thought for a long time that it would be great to host a Little Free Library. Fittingly, as the first LFL was built by a son for his mother, this one was too. We asked the middle son to "help build a LFL for us" and it seems that what we really meant by "help", was "will you build a LFL for us", because that is what happened. Perhaps we held a board in place, and we certainly loosely supervised from a lawn chair, but all the real work was done by a more capable, and very patient carpenter.
When it got down to the fine details we turned the foreman job over to the shop bunny aka Mr. Bunny who saw the project to completion.
LFL #103,686 was installed in July 2020 and ready for patrons. And yes, our number reflects that we were the 103,686th library to be registered since the first one installed in Hudson, Wisconsin in 2009.
In the last year we have had so many people tell us that they really appreciated being able to get books at little libraries during the pandemic while public libraries were closed, or they didn't feel comfortable going in to them, or they wanted to browse books rather than order online for pickup. That made us feel very good.
Stop by anytime to Take a Book and Leave a Book. And if you see us out please say "hi". We love talking to strangers.
And if you want to create your own Little Free Library all you need to know can be found at littlefreelibrary.org.
No comments:
Post a Comment