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Participant3/11/2022 Comic Book Store
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Back for more?Participant@Sophie CW 218022 wrote:
Beautifully painted LFL at 713 Owens Street in Rockville. I left a kids book called “The Dragon Princess” by E.D. Baker.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]28745[/ATTACH]My daughter just wrote a fan letter to ED Baker! Her princesses are strong and often are the ones to save the prince.
ParticipantWashington Post article:
6 Little Free Libraries worth visiting, from D.C. to California
https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/tips/little-free-libraries-travel-outdoorsLittle Free Library discoveries definitely make travel and transport more fun!
Participant3/10/2022 Record Store
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Byrdland near Union Market. Overheard someone inside talking up the wonder and nuance of Go-go.
ParticipantLittle Free Library near 500 block of K St NE DC
[ATTACH=CONFIG]28737[/ATTACH]Sorry I didn’t have a book with me because it’s running low. It did have “Sylvester and the Magic Pebble,” which I remember fondly.
Participant3/9/2022 Art Gallery
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Apparently STABLE arts just off the Metropolitan Branch Trail in Eckington DC used to house horses for Nabisco!
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3rd Street NE DC near V. Could use more books for all!
ParticipantHave to work to get up the hill to this one, on Rhode Island Avenue NE near Summit Street.
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Had some things for small kids and adults. Could use more books on mountaineering, being near the Summit and all.Participant3/8/2022 Coffee Shop
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Participant3/7/2022 Family Owned Restaurant
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Menomale on 12th St NE DC in Brookland is the only place one of my friends from Italy will eat pizza in DC. Opened by an Italian family and certified by Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana, based in Naples, Italy, it’s worth a stop. Plus there’s now gelato among the Italian prepared food and ingredients for sale at the associated deli down the block. KidSnowLeopard convinced me to buy her some on our rainy but warm ride home because we could get it through the window–didn’t even need to get off our bikes!
ParticipantKidSnowLeopard and I found a new Little Free Library today. It could use more books, so we’ll have to return, but at least our bikes matched its color scheme:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]28674[/ATTACH]Checking out a Little Free Library while eating gelato from a family owned restaurant on bikes in the rain is a totally normal thing to do, right?
12th Street NE DC between Girard and HamlinParticipant3/6/2022 Brewery
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Right Proper Brewing CompanyParticipantLarge Little Free Library near 5th and East Capitol #withkidSnowLeopard
[ATTACH=CONFIG]28605[/ATTACH]Participant@Kbikeva 217680 wrote:
Ugh – did you all see Miss Manners about LFL’s? I wonder if this is happening to some of the perpetually empty ones in our area. People can be such entitled jerks.
Despite this — Have a wonderful last couple of weeks with the game!
Dear Miss Manners: We love having a Little Free Library in our front yard. We enjoy seeing neighbors and passersby look through the books, take one or two, and maybe make a special trip to leave a few that they’re finished with. We’ve received thank-you notes from people who appreciate our little library.
However, a pair of women have started roaming our neighborhood, emptying all the Little Free Libraries into large bags that they carry. It got to the point that our library was being emptied every few days. We saw them this morning, carrying bags stuffed with books, and we confronted them.
They were extremely belligerent. One claims that she takes them to give to her students, meaning she either has several hundred students, or they all read a few dozen books at a time. They also seem to have tastes including beginning-reader books, Stephen King thrillers, romance novels and cookbooks. I’m pretty sure they are all being sold somewhere.
The woman who did most of the talking claims that the word “free” on the library entitles her to take as many books as she wants. I agree that she should take as many books as she wants to read, but she readily admits she is not reading them.
We put a “Closed” sign on our library, but we may try opening it again in the near future with a little sign in the window outlining some rules. But really, I don’t know what to do. It isn’t a police matter, and in the grand scheme of things, it’s not that important, but I can’t stand these two women feeling entitled to take all of the books in the neighborhood.
I’ve seen that once in NE DC. Someone drove right up and emptied a LFL into a bag without looking at the titles. Thankfully it’s much more often that I see the opposite, with people loading bags off books into the libraries.
Participant3/5/2022 Bike Shop
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