“Three years ago Todd Bol came up with an idea to remember his mother, a teacher who had loved books and encouraged people to read. At his home in Hudson, Wisconsin, he built a box, made it waterproof and filled it with books. It looked like a miniature one-room schoolhouse, with a sign underneath that said ‘Free Book Exchange.’ Bol put it on a post outside of his house and invited neighbors to take a book, and return a book.
“That’s when something happened Bol says he never could have imagined.”
A recent NBC Nightly News broadcast examined the development and growth of Little Free Libraries from one person’s initiative into a number of similar efforts in 28 states, including Connecticut (Middletown) and Massachusetts (West Yarmouth) and six other countries.
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NBC Nightly News: Using books to build community (10 MAR 12)
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