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Participant2/3/2022 Presidents Day
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“28 Blocks,” a mural along the Metropolitan Branch Trail by New York-based artist Garin Bake. Rather than just highlighting Lincoln, it depicts the African Americans who quarried the stone used to build the Lincoln monument and the Italian immigrant family who carved it. Cool story about this great public art:
https://dc.curbed.com/2017/9/1/16243322/mural-lincoln-memorial-garin-bakerParticipantLittle Free Library on 13th Pl NE DC near Webster
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Such a cute paint job and a living green roof!
Didn’t want to open it in the rain, but will try to add a children’s book next time because it looked pretty full with adult selections.ParticipantWow, you’ve all found lots of plates! Has this fine specimen from Navy Yard been posted yet?
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I can’t tell them all, but it has at least DC, KY, NC, NJ, PA, VA, NY, SC…Participant2/2/2022 Groundhog Day
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See the sign for “GROUND” in front of the shadows of our hogs? Ahem, bikes?
I can’t believe someone saw a real live groundhog!ParticipantNats themed Little Free Library on 4th St SE DC near E St.
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KidSnowLeopard days it needs more middle grade books.Participant2/1/2022 Lunar New Year
Happy Year of the Tiger!
[ATTACH=CONFIG]27285[/ATTACH]Mural on the Metropolitan Branch Trail by @redswanwalls women-owned artist studio
ParticipantLittle Free Library on corner of Lawrence and 12th St NE DC, in front of St. Anthony’s.
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Could probably use more typical kid picks than the self defense training book KidSnowLeopard was eyeing.
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Little Free Library in the 1600 block of 11th Street NW DC near the Shaw skate park. I didn’t have my daughter cross the busy street for the photo op when I spotted this one, but she was there and was disappointed when I informed her it was an adult-focused selection. If our panniers hadn’t been full of books she picked out from the MLK Jr. Library, I might have been tempted to borrow the Bill McKibben book.
My personal goal for LFLs was to make it at least through January finding libraries by luck and memory, without consulting a website or map. Made it! Thankful for this challenge helping to make riding fun and thankful for a community that generously shares books in many places!
Participant1/31/2022 Martin Luther King, Jr.
My daughter and I rode to the renovated MLK library and enjoyed this book display:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]27204[/ATTACH]“A place to land,” (top left) is a children’s book about the “I have a dream” speech. From the publisher: “Martin Luther King, Jr. was once asked if the hardest part of preaching was knowing where to begin. No, he said. The hardest part is knowing where to end. “It’s terrible to be circling up there without a place to land.””
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Nicely painted Little Free Library at 13th and Hamlin Streets NE DC. I’ll try to drop some baby books there. There was a good selection for older kids and adults.
Participant1/30/2022 New Year
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This rocky hill reminded me of a few of our past New Year’s climbs.
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Little Free Library at 22nd and Otis NE DC. Good fiction selection for children (Beverly Clearly!) and adults alike! Could maybe use some non fiction to mix it up.
Participant1/29/22 Christmas
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I was hoping to use this house for an obscure animal scavenger hunt. Need a narwhal? Unicorns (close up)? Dinosaurs, dragons, or Big Bird?
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I donated “put me in the zoo” to this wooden beauty on 5th St and Ingraham NW, adding a little diversity to the existing great collection of popular fiction and biographies, Michelle Obama’s for one.
Participant1/28/2022 Bikeway
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Uh, thanks for salting the bikeway, I guess…
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