Local Boy Scout Brings Little Free Libraries to H-F Parks

Henry Heligas, Eagle Scout candidate from Homewood Troop #342, in cooperation with the Friends of Flossmoor Library and the Friends of Homewood Library, will be installing four Little Free Libraries in Homewood and Flossmoor Parks in late summer.

Little Free Libraries are boxes full of books where anyone may stop and take a book or two and then bring a different book back to share. They are popping up all over the country and gaining in popularity. Henry’s Eagle Scout Project marks the first concerted effort to bring them to the Homewood Flossmoor area. The books will initially be supplied by the Friends of the respective libraries. Hopes are that users will begin replenishing the libraries themselves.

Heligas said, “Installing Little Free Libraries in the parks will promote reading and literacy to a wider audience. HF Park District is all about recreation and reading is one of the oldest and most enduring recreational activities.”

Plans are to install two Little Free Libraries in Flossmoor parks and two in Homewood parks. The parks are Leavitt and Goldberg Parks in Flossmoor and Patriots and Millennium Parks in Homewood. A ribbon cutting ceremony in Goldberg Park will take place on September 13, 2014.

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