That’s because this unabashedly quirky, artsy seaside city has officially embraced the Little Free Library movement, where tiny libraries filled with a variety of books are placed on homeowners’ lawns and in public spaces.Watch The Mary Lindsey in this video talk about the Little Free Libraries and the REAP grants the City received:
The concept: Take a book, leave a book. The libraries, in a sense, serve as mini town squares.
“It’s a community building exercise because it makes people come out of the woodwork and talk,” said Mary Lindsey, a College Park resident who was instrumental in getting 34 little libraries into the city. [emphasis added]
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