Dallastown now has a Little Free Library.<\/p>\n
The Little Free Library<\/a> “is a box full of books where anyone may stop by and pick up a book (or two) and bring back another book to share.” It’s a wooden box on a post, decorated in some way, and it’s filled with books the community wants to share. My friend Nea has written about the one near her home extensively. I was intrigued, and maybe even a little jealous; I hadn’t seen anything like that near me.<\/p>\n Then, Saturday morning, I did. I was driving through Dallastown to go to the Maryland Renaissance Festival<\/a>, and I saw something new along Main Street — a Little Free Library on the lawn of St. Paul’s United Church of Christ<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sunday afternoon, I walked into town to check it out. I was curious what sort of stuff might be in it. What does Dallastown read?<\/p>\n The box appeared to be fairly new. (This article<\/a> about the installation isn’t dated, but the metadata on the photo indicates the photo was taken on September 15th.) There were roughly thirty books inside.<\/p>\n The books broke down four ways.<\/p>\n There were religious books, like biographies of Biblical characters, prayer books and devotionals, and a book on Biblical prophecy by Left Behind<\/i>‘s Tim LaHaye.<\/p>\n There were cookbooks.<\/p>\n There were children’s books, especially Sesame Street<\/i> interactive and board books.<\/p>\n There were some beat-up paperbacks — Robert Ludlum thrillers and the like.<\/p>\n The books were haphazardly arranged in the box, so I started rearranging them. In so doing, I found some books that weren’t books at all. They were just covers. There was a Muppet Babies<\/i> cover and another cover. There were a couple of cooking magazines.<\/p>\n I cleaned it up, pulled out the junk, and added two books that I’d brought with me.<\/p>\n One was Edmund Morris’ The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt<\/i>. I had this in paperback and read it several years ago (which prompted the thought that the teenaged TR would have been perfect as a Doctor Who<\/i> companion), and last year I replaced it in my library with a hardcover edition that I picked up for about six dollars. So, this was a spare, and Dallastown’s Little Free Library struck me Sunday as a very good home for it.<\/p>\n The other was ReDeus: Divine Tales<\/i>, an anthology with my story, “The Ginger Kid<\/a>.” Someone in Dallastown might like it!<\/p>\n Except for the junk — the bookless covers and the cooking magazines — I didn’t take anything from the Little Free Library.<\/p>\n But I’ll check it out again. I have other books in search of good homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dallastown now has a Little Free Library. The Little Free Library “is a box full of books where anyone may stop by and pick up a book (or two) and bring back another book to share.” It’s a wooden box on a post, decorated in some way, and it’s filled with books the community wantsContinue reading “Dallastown’s Little Free Library”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[3968,3969,212,516],"class_list":["post-28667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","tag-dallastown","tag-little-free-library","tag-redeus","tag-teddy-roosevelt","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}