Lincoln’s Little Free Library (click to enlarge).
Lincoln Station has a new Little Free Library thanks to a donation from Ann Yos, the now-retired librarian at First Parish in Lincoln (FPL), and teachers and students form the church.
Yos provided the sixth- and seventh-graders in FPL’s Neighboring Faiths Sunday school class with some money to be used for a social action project, and the kids decided to create a Little Free Library — now one of more than 90,000 free book exchanges in 91 countries where people can a “take a book, return a book.”
Together with their teachers, Terry Green and Mark Goetemann (and with further funding from FPL’s Outreach Committee), the students researched, planned, designed, built, and painted a Little Free Library, which is now installed at Lincoln Station near the Clark Gallery and Twisted Tree Cafe.
“There is an understanding that real people are sharing their favorite books with their community; Little Libraries have been called “mini-town squares,” the organization’s website notes.
Ann Yos (center), former librarian at the First Parish in Lincoln, with teenage congregation members who built the Little Free Library.