These libraries never close
Underwood’s Melissa Harr-Schauer shows the her Stewart Avenue Sharing Library located at the front of her home on Stewart Ave.
BY SUZANNE WERRE,
Editor
The coronavirus may have shut down the city and state libraries, but that doesn’t mean folks weren’t able to pick up some new and gently used books at their local libraries. The
selections may have been a little fewer, but the libraries can only hold so many books. That’s when you get when the libraries are located a top pedestals in front of people’s homes.
There are at least two such mini free libraries in Central McLean – one in Underwood, the other in Turtle Lake, erected by Melissa Harr-Schauer in Underwood, and her mom Linda Harr in Turtle Lake. While Linda’s is homemade, Melissa ordered a pre-made mini library to put up at the end of her driveway – and it has been filled with books, each of them going in and out, replaced by others, since it was put up this spring. “I got it for Christmas,” she said. “I talked Jason into buying it for me for Christmas.” She started sharing her gift
as soon as the ground thawed enough to put the mini library up.
