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Gordon Sinclair
July 17, 2014 | 12:44 am

Little Free Winnipeg Libraries

Enjoying the multiple conversations that Monday’s piece started about Little Free Libraries, I can’t help but share the two that our family has been enjoying this summer. In doing so, there’s a striking difference between the development pattern of Monday’s neighbourhood in Kansas versus this 100-year-old Winnipeg neighbourhood in which I live. Do those development patterns have anything to do with the vastly different public responses that these libraries have received? Maybe not, but it’s an interesting contemplation.

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Category Back of the Envelope, Public Engagement2 CommentsTags Gordon Sinclair, Hazel Borys, Heather Emberley, Little Free Library, Winnipeg

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