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RIP Ted Bol, Inventor of 'Little Free Libraries'
[Weekly Standard] In 2009, Tod Bol put a small wooden box in front of his Hudson, Wisconsin, home and unwittingly started a movement. Bol, who died Thursday at age 62, filled the box‐shaped like a one-room schoolhouse in honor of his late teacher mother, who had loved reading‐with books. He encouraged his neighbors to borrow a book or leave a book. And so the Little Free Library movement was born.

Over the ensuing decade, word of Little Free Libraries spread on the Internet. They quickly spread across the globe; they’re reportedly to be found in more than 80 countries now. 75,000 are registered on the Little Free Library website. Bol operated a Little Free Library non-profit, which tracks them and provides support. "It’s weird to be an international phenomenon," he told the Associated Press in 2012.

You encounter Little Free Libraries in the predictable precincts, of course: The heavily educated quarters of upper northwest Washington, D.C., are chock full of them. But they’re not at all exclusively the province of the Bobos: I’ve run across them in suburban San Antonio and working class parts of Rhode Island, too.
The Little Free Library website can be explored here.

Posted by: Besoeker 2018-10-21
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