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Street Road
725 Street Road Cochranville, PA 19330 

The Little Free Library
1016B Gap Newport Pike 
Cochranville, PA 19330
WINTER LIBRARY
January 2022 until the next iteration of Summer Library begins, in June 2022.
May 21: Closing reception, 3-6pm

The Book of Ashes - Resultant Artifact​ 
Participate: this February through April.
Reception for submissions to date, May 21, 2022. Completed project launching Fall 2022.

Chain of Title
​Visit or email us to participate. Runs throughout the duration of Winter Library.

View the catalog of books passing through the Summer and Winter Libraries here (where you can also visit our permanent collections).
Street Road's Winter Library is the quietly stormy complement to our now ongoing Summer Library project: a hibernal celebration of growth and gathering during periods of dormancy.  

Holding space for the warm seasons to come, when Summer Library will continue, and when a new series of librarians will interpret and activate our collection, the Winter Library simmers quietly on the shelf and is open to the public as an extension of our main Little Free Library, with all books free to take as usual. 

Two related participatory projects run throughout the Winter and into Spring, both of which are led by the ethos of the wider Summer/Winter Library endeavor. Visit, or contact us by email to take part virtually.
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1. Chain of Title
Visitors are asked to riff off of the title of the last book added to the shelf by selecting a related book from our ever-shifting pile of titles and adding it to the chain. You can do so in person, or, browse our online catalogue and email us your selection - if we are able to locate the book (not always a certainty) we will add it to the sequence. The chain of titles will be updated here periodically:
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  • Book 1: The first word: the search for the origins of language
  • Book 2: Dreams
  • Book 3: Color Handbook of garden insects
  • Book 4: ​Gulliver's Travels
  • Book 5: Revenge of the Whale
  • Book 6: Leviathan
  • Book 7: Ship of Fools
​2.  The Book of Ashes
​Remnants from The Anti-Anthropocene Bonfire Bookburning, which took place as part of Summer Library 2021, have been renewed and incorporated into sheets of paper, to be used as a new canvas for meditations on libraries and books and archives. An open invitation was sent out and participants have realized new works using one of these pages. Visit The Book of Ashes page here for further details and join us May 21 to view submissions to date​.

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VISITING
Please check our website or social media before visiting as our hours are subject to change.

Street Road HOURS
Fridays and Saturdays from 11am-3pm and by appointment.

Little Free Library HOURS
Mondays 6-9pm (beginning Jan 16, 2023)
​Thursdays 12-4pm
Fridays 10am-2pm
Saturdays 10am-2pm
and by appointment.

Our Little Free Library outdoor boxes at both sites are open 24/7 and are regularly restocked.

Please call 610-869-4712 or email to set up visits outside our regularly scheduled hours. 
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We are currently seeking volunteers for both locations: email us to enquire. We look forward to hearing from you!

DIRECTIONS
to Street Road here. 
to The Little Free Library here.

A word about 'here':
We acknowledge that we are on the ancestral lands of the Lenape, original people of the mid-Atlantic area, forced west by British and US governments. Most Delaware Indian tribe descendants are now located in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario. Lenni Lenapes in Pennsylvania are not officially recognized as tribes by the United States, though an estimated 5000 Lenape Nation descendants live in the Delaware River area. We pay respects to the Lenape people both past and present. Please consider the many legacies of violence, displacement and settlement that form part of our collective histories. While increased public recognition of these legacies and processes of redress such as Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission are positive steps, concrete focus on return of land and land rights remains a distant horizon.
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