Building Community and a Little Free Library

For a short period of my life, my neighbors remained nameless faces who smiled and waved as they quickly sped by my home. If I ever needed help, I would have to go to the “lady with two dogs who always works in her yard”. See, I didn’t know her name.

And unfortunately, not knowing your neighbors is common in today’s world.

We have kids to run and dinners to make and calendars to fill. Neighbors, shneighbors. Who has time?

Three years ago, a Wisconsin man came up with a great idea; he wanted to build a library. No, no, not a bricks and mortar and staffed with employees type of library, but a Little Free Library. Todd Bol’s Little Free Library was a handmade, waterproof box he filled with books, and then placed in his front yard. Todd’s library was to honor his mother, a former teacher, and to encourage his neighbors to take a book and then return a book.

The idea caught on. Big time. Click here to continue reading at Mom It Forward.

Thanks to Sarah A. for the lead on this and Stacy, the Blogunteer for highlighting Little Fee Libraries.

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