“We wanted to not have that be why someone didn’t participate if they didn’t have a book to leave,” explained Simmons.Īspen Skiing Company donated a hundred copies of “Between the World And Me,” the 2015 nonfiction work by Ta-Nehisi Coates, for the new libraries. That’s still the program for Little Free Libraries around the Roaring Fork Valley, but organizers said that the emphasis for Aspen’s new book boxes will be to highlight diverse voices-even if readers don’t have a book to swap. The idea is that when readers take a book, they replace it with another book. Little Free Libraries is a neighborhood book exchange that spans across the country and the Roaring Fork Valley. It can start to be a catalyst for a community-wide conversation." "Once we get outside of our norm, we only become more curious, we only become more passionate about the next thing that we can educate ourselves on.
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