Little Free Libraries

 

Dustbury's Local Library

Dustbury put up a post about his local library, which led to this page, where I found these two items:

• Andrew Carnegie’s support of 2,509 free public libraries around the turn of the 19^th to 20^th century.
• The heroic achievements of Miss Lutie Stearns, a librarian who brought books to nearly 1400 locations in Wisconsin through “traveling little libraries” between 1895 and 1914.

Andrew Carnegie stands out in my mind as one of the robber barons who made his fortune trampling on his fellow Americans. I think that's mostly due to me socialist upbringing. Sometimes I remember the libraries. I've never heard of Miss Lutie Stearns before, but then I haven't spent much time in Wisconsin.