June 1, 2024
Fresh News for the Neighborhood You Love
UPDATE: A resident reports the tiny library is back. And fully stocked.
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Regular readers of Jamaica Plain News know we follow the neighborhood’s collection of Little Libraries. We recently learned the DIY leave a book/take a book depot at Chestnut Avenue and Paul Gore is gone.
The Friends of the Egleston Square Branch Library will hold their third annual book sale. There will be new and used books, children’s books, textbooks, novels and art.
The proliferation of “Little Libraries” is being seen from South Korea to Qatar. There are at least five in Jamaica Plain.
The mystery carpenter who is building a new Little Library atop the electrical box at Bardwell and South streets pleads for patience. Meanwhile, readers have taken the situation into their own hands by putting up a series of soon-to-get-soggy cardboard boxes at the give-a-book, take-a-book spot.
