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Artist creates tree library in 100-year-old stump

An artist in Idaho has transformed a tree stump into a little free library.
An artist in Idaho has transformed a tree stump into a little free library.
By Natalie Dreier, Cox Media Group National Content Desk
Dec 19, 2018

Another little free library has popped up in Idaho, but this one could go by another name -- a little tree library.

An artist in Coeur D'Alene took a more than 100-year-old stump and created a small lending library for her neighborhood, KREM reported.

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Sharalee Armitage Howard said her family cut down most of the cottonwood tree when branches started falling.

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But what was left has a new life -- a home for books that can be swapped by those in the community, KREM reported. The mantra for the program is "take a book, return a book."

This book nook wasn't the first one that Howard created. She built a little free library before. But this one has a swinging glass door, a couple of steps and lights both inside and out, KREM reported.

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