by Julie Hall July 6, 2012 8:35 p.m.
The Little Free Library (featured in our Photo of the Week 6/25/12) on The Habitat for the Humanities Shepard Path was set fire this afternoon. Thanks to a quick call by an alert neighbor, the Bainbridge Island Fire Department responded rapidly and kept the fire from spreading to nearby homes and the adjacent woods, but the little library was burned to bits.
Creator of the lovely artful mini library, Donna D., overcame her grief about the loss to make the following statement to our community: “To all who are saddened by this senseless destruction, I ask you to commit an act of joyful kindness to tip the ‘life is good’ scale back to where it ought to be. Now get to it!”
Burned book remnants.
The Little Free Library #892 was installed and filled with books for giving and taking on June 1, 2012. At its inauguration, Donna D. shared one of her favorite literary quotes, by Dr. Seuss from One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish: “If you never did you should. These things are fun, and fun is good.”
Read more about her former Little Free Library.
Photos by Donna D.