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Little Free Library blends right in on Beacon Street in the Back Bay
By adamg on Sun, 08/21/2022 - 11:04am
Leslee spotted a neighborhood-appropriate tiny library on Beacon Street.
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I went back to get a shot of the books inside! pic.twitter.com/2oLRDZQzCc
— leslee (@3rdhouse) August 21, 2022
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Get Ready for Some Hot NABB action - Hopefully not.
The Neighborhood Association of the Back Bay spent years arguing over street furniture for such things as newspaper boxes (ask your parents) and benches in the Back Bay.
They spent years holding up the Vendome memorial. A graceful memorial to 9 working class people who lost their lives saving Back Bay property. However, somehow the incredibly racist theory inspired Leif Ericson statue stays.
One building spent many, many, many thousands of dollars about 25 years ago on designing a rat proof trash holder to satisfy NABB's demands (The building could afford it though).
This library is cute as hell. Let's hope it can stay and not face an "out of character" hush campaign.
Calm down, Chicken Little.
It’s not street furniture. It’s in someone’s front yard.
Back From Camp I See
Too bad your reading comprehension is still playing with your Fisher Price toys:
"One building spent many, many, many thousands of dollars about 25 years ago on designing a rat proof trash holder to satisfy NABB's demands (The building could afford it though)."
That was on private property within public view....just like this little library.
Thanks for playing. Try harder next time. I'll buy some Little Golden Books at Buttonwood and put them in there for you to enjoy.
However, somehow the
Explain.
Eben Horsford
The guy who invented the sort of baking powder we use today - and who gave us the statue of Leif Erikson, was part of a 19th-century clique of Brahmins who were convinced Italians couldn't possibly have been the first to "discover" the New World (never mind the people who had been living here for thousands of years) and so came up with the theory that the Vikings were here first (OK, so as we now know, they were right, if by "here," you mean Newfoundland).
But Horsford took it a step further and declared that Leif Erikson sailed up the Charles, landed in what is now Cambridge and then kept going until he got to Weston, where he founded a city that at its peak had 10,000 Viking residents.
He spent a lot of time and money digging up places all over the area (including Thingvalla Avenue in Cambridge, which he persuaded the city to name after the ancestral home of the Icelandic parliament) and paid to have a statue built to honor Erikson at one end of the Commonwealth Avenue Mall (ironically, dressed as a Roman, but maybe he thought the Romans were nobler than their Italian descendants).
the Norumbega Tower guy
Hence the name Norumbega Park.
I knew that name sounded familiar.
Longfellow Bridge too
It was this very same school of thought that put the prows of Viking ships onto the Longfellow Bridge (at the bases of the towers).
They were off to a good start
They were off to a good start, having those front steps with no rail.
Unfortunately, that handle to the left is not authentic period Architecture. Now they will have to scour the regions antique shops to find a dollhouse of the appropriate age so that they can steal the door hardware.