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    • HERE: a place-based polar image bridge
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  • Multi-year enquiries, ongoing
    • Near Dwellers
      • 1: Near Dwellers and the Sharing of Breath, SLQS
      • 2: Near Dwellers as Legal Beings, Fawn Daphne Plessner and Susanna Kamon
      • 3: Near Dwellers as Creative Collaborators, Julie Andreyev and Ruth K. Burke
      • 4: Near Dwellers as Urbanites, Jesse Garbe and Doug LaFortune
      • 5: Near Dwellers as Roadkill, Lou Florence
      • 6. Near Dwellers as Friends
      • 7. Near Dwellers as Indwellers
    • Clouded Title
      • Clouded Title 2018
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      • Clouded Title 2020/21 - Conversations
    • A(mobile)DRIFT
    • Summer Library
      • Summer Library, Librarian 12 – Robert Good
      • Summer Library, Librarian 11 – Christianna Potter Hannum
      • Summer Library, Librarian 10 – Christopher Murray
      • Summer Library, Librarian 9 – Maya Wasileski
      • Summer Library, Librarian 8 – Logan Cryer
      • Summer Library, Librarian 7 – Rhonda Ike
      • Summer Library 2021 closing event - The Anti-Anthropocene Bonfire Bookburning
      • Summer Library, Librarian 6 – Georgie Devereux
      • Summer Library, Librarian 5 – Mary Tasillo
      • Summer Library, Librarian 4 – Maria Möller
      • Summer Library, Librarian 3 – Rachel Eng
      • Summer Library, Librarian 2 – Lou Florence
      • Summer Library, Librarian 1 – Angella Meanix
  • Outdoor works, ongoing
    • Locust Leap
    • Domestic Rewilding - Ruth K. Burke
    • Supervene Forest
  • past
    • Dennis Haggerty – Various Small Envelopes
    • Multi-year
      • The Dust: American Matter
      • Heterotopia West, Adrian Barron
      • The Post Anthropocene Compost
      • Reigning Heads, Luyi Wang
      • Homma Meridian, by Kaori Homma
      • Folly by Anthony, Dennis, and Nicholas Santella
      • Street Road Rocks
      • Street Road Reading Group
      • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
      • unTOLLed Stories, Emily Artinian & Felise Luchansky
        • unTOLLed Stories
        • unTOLLed stories BLOG
      • Bees - Stella Lou Farm
    • 2023
      • May the Neotropical Arise — Zulu Padilla
    • 2022
      • Un-Boxing
      • Twentysix Wawa Stores
      • Winter Library
      • The Book of Ashes
    • 2021
      • Composting Hegel
      • Street Road Rocks at 10&41
      • Chain mail for bad communicators
      • BABE 2021
    • 2020
      • Castor
      • Dutchirican
    • 2019
      • Roots of Resistance
      • Seven Million Acres: Pride of place
      • LFL Exhibitions: Libbie Sofer, Transported
      • Emily Manko | Now, Then, When
      • Julia Hardman: if they're behind you they go too fast; if they're in front of you they go too slow
      • Summer 2019 Conversations
    • 2018
      • Walking Forward – Looking Back: Carol Maurer
    • 2017
      • Ceramic Sanctuary
      • Homestead: a permaculture project, StellaLou Farm (7/6 to 9/16/2017)
      • Shared Ground: Dennis Santella, Nicholas Santella and Anthony Santella, May-June 2017
      • back, forth: Street Road at 5 years 11/2016-4/2017
        • Anchor 1: Par Exemple, Ebenthal
        • Anchor 2: Homma Meridian
        • Anchor 3: The road out of town, McMurdo Sound
        • Anchor 4: Play Under’ from ‘Underneath
        • Anchor 5: Leni Lenape arrowhead collection
        • Anchor 6 : Open Wall
        • Anchor 7: Supervene Forest
        • Anchor 8: Chalfant
        • Anchor 9: Soviet Apartment Bloc, Tblisi, Georgia
        • Anchor 10 : Enskyment
      • #J20 (1/20/2017)
    • 2016
      • 24 Hour Liminal: Maria Möller (August-October 2016)
      • 7000 Acres: a residents' history of Londonderry Township (May 21-July 15, 2016)
      • The Tent of Casually Observed Phenologies (July 16, 2016)
      • Julia Dooley and Dr. Zoe Courville sci-art student project (4/22-23/16)
      • Maxim D. Shrayer and Christianna Hannum Miller (4/9/2016)
      • Fadi Sultagi's The Sanctuary of Bel, Palmyra (to 4/15/16)
      • Susan Marie Brundage and David A. Parker at Street Road and at The Christiana Motel (to 4/15/16)
      • Sasha Boyle
    • 2015
      • The Road Less Traveled, Danny Aldred
      • Sailing Stones (2015)
        • Julia Dooley: Images from the Bottom of the World and CryoZen Garden
        • José Luis Avila: hOMe
        • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
        • Egidija Ciricate: About Stones
        • L.A.N.D.
      • Crisis Farm: Seed to Table by Maryann Worrell and Doug Mott (2015)
      • Suburban Landscapes: Brian Richmond (2015)
    • 2014
      • Enskyment, by David A. Parker
      • Arterial Motives
        • Arterial Motives Exhibition
        • Arterial Motives Blog
      • Garage and Octorara Student Exhibition
      • Maxim D. Shrayer - Leaving Russia
    • 2013
      • Proposals of Belonging
      • Lost Highway 41 Revisited Blues (2013)
    • 2012
      • Compass (2012)
      • Parallax (2012)
    • 2011
      • The Lay of the Land (2011)
  • Street Road Press
  • Blogs
    • Blog: Winter 2016/17
    • Blog 2011-2016
    • T.S.W.H.
  • Little Free Library
    • Book Club
    • Little Free Library Blog
  • Home
  • Visit
  • CURRENT
    • Becoming Succession
    • HERE: a place-based polar image bridge
    • Near Dwellers
    • Near Dwellers as Friends
    • Near Dwellers as Indwellers
  • Multi-year enquiries, ongoing
    • Near Dwellers
      • 1: Near Dwellers and the Sharing of Breath, SLQS
      • 2: Near Dwellers as Legal Beings, Fawn Daphne Plessner and Susanna Kamon
      • 3: Near Dwellers as Creative Collaborators, Julie Andreyev and Ruth K. Burke
      • 4: Near Dwellers as Urbanites, Jesse Garbe and Doug LaFortune
      • 5: Near Dwellers as Roadkill, Lou Florence
      • 6. Near Dwellers as Friends
      • 7. Near Dwellers as Indwellers
    • Clouded Title
      • Clouded Title 2018
      • Clouded Title 2019
      • Clouded Title 2020/21 - Conversations
    • A(mobile)DRIFT
    • Summer Library
      • Summer Library, Librarian 12 – Robert Good
      • Summer Library, Librarian 11 – Christianna Potter Hannum
      • Summer Library, Librarian 10 – Christopher Murray
      • Summer Library, Librarian 9 – Maya Wasileski
      • Summer Library, Librarian 8 – Logan Cryer
      • Summer Library, Librarian 7 – Rhonda Ike
      • Summer Library 2021 closing event - The Anti-Anthropocene Bonfire Bookburning
      • Summer Library, Librarian 6 – Georgie Devereux
      • Summer Library, Librarian 5 – Mary Tasillo
      • Summer Library, Librarian 4 – Maria Möller
      • Summer Library, Librarian 3 – Rachel Eng
      • Summer Library, Librarian 2 – Lou Florence
      • Summer Library, Librarian 1 – Angella Meanix
  • Outdoor works, ongoing
    • Locust Leap
    • Domestic Rewilding - Ruth K. Burke
    • Supervene Forest
  • past
    • Dennis Haggerty – Various Small Envelopes
    • Multi-year
      • The Dust: American Matter
      • Heterotopia West, Adrian Barron
      • The Post Anthropocene Compost
      • Reigning Heads, Luyi Wang
      • Homma Meridian, by Kaori Homma
      • Folly by Anthony, Dennis, and Nicholas Santella
      • Street Road Rocks
      • Street Road Reading Group
      • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
      • unTOLLed Stories, Emily Artinian & Felise Luchansky
        • unTOLLed Stories
        • unTOLLed stories BLOG
      • Bees - Stella Lou Farm
    • 2023
      • May the Neotropical Arise — Zulu Padilla
    • 2022
      • Un-Boxing
      • Twentysix Wawa Stores
      • Winter Library
      • The Book of Ashes
    • 2021
      • Composting Hegel
      • Street Road Rocks at 10&41
      • Chain mail for bad communicators
      • BABE 2021
    • 2020
      • Castor
      • Dutchirican
    • 2019
      • Roots of Resistance
      • Seven Million Acres: Pride of place
      • LFL Exhibitions: Libbie Sofer, Transported
      • Emily Manko | Now, Then, When
      • Julia Hardman: if they're behind you they go too fast; if they're in front of you they go too slow
      • Summer 2019 Conversations
    • 2018
      • Walking Forward – Looking Back: Carol Maurer
    • 2017
      • Ceramic Sanctuary
      • Homestead: a permaculture project, StellaLou Farm (7/6 to 9/16/2017)
      • Shared Ground: Dennis Santella, Nicholas Santella and Anthony Santella, May-June 2017
      • back, forth: Street Road at 5 years 11/2016-4/2017
        • Anchor 1: Par Exemple, Ebenthal
        • Anchor 2: Homma Meridian
        • Anchor 3: The road out of town, McMurdo Sound
        • Anchor 4: Play Under’ from ‘Underneath
        • Anchor 5: Leni Lenape arrowhead collection
        • Anchor 6 : Open Wall
        • Anchor 7: Supervene Forest
        • Anchor 8: Chalfant
        • Anchor 9: Soviet Apartment Bloc, Tblisi, Georgia
        • Anchor 10 : Enskyment
      • #J20 (1/20/2017)
    • 2016
      • 24 Hour Liminal: Maria Möller (August-October 2016)
      • 7000 Acres: a residents' history of Londonderry Township (May 21-July 15, 2016)
      • The Tent of Casually Observed Phenologies (July 16, 2016)
      • Julia Dooley and Dr. Zoe Courville sci-art student project (4/22-23/16)
      • Maxim D. Shrayer and Christianna Hannum Miller (4/9/2016)
      • Fadi Sultagi's The Sanctuary of Bel, Palmyra (to 4/15/16)
      • Susan Marie Brundage and David A. Parker at Street Road and at The Christiana Motel (to 4/15/16)
      • Sasha Boyle
    • 2015
      • The Road Less Traveled, Danny Aldred
      • Sailing Stones (2015)
        • Julia Dooley: Images from the Bottom of the World and CryoZen Garden
        • José Luis Avila: hOMe
        • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
        • Egidija Ciricate: About Stones
        • L.A.N.D.
      • Crisis Farm: Seed to Table by Maryann Worrell and Doug Mott (2015)
      • Suburban Landscapes: Brian Richmond (2015)
    • 2014
      • Enskyment, by David A. Parker
      • Arterial Motives
        • Arterial Motives Exhibition
        • Arterial Motives Blog
      • Garage and Octorara Student Exhibition
      • Maxim D. Shrayer - Leaving Russia
    • 2013
      • Proposals of Belonging
      • Lost Highway 41 Revisited Blues (2013)
    • 2012
      • Compass (2012)
      • Parallax (2012)
    • 2011
      • The Lay of the Land (2011)
  • Street Road Press
  • Blogs
    • Blog: Winter 2016/17
    • Blog 2011-2016
    • T.S.W.H.
  • Little Free Library
    • Book Club
    • Little Free Library Blog
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Street Road
725 Street Road Cochranville, PA 19330 

The Little Free Library
1016B Gap Newport Pike 
Cochranville, PA 19330

Sailing Stones  March 31 through October 30, 2015   Opening event Saturday May 9, 1-6pm
José Avila, Egidija Čiricaitė, Julia Dooley, Kaori Homma, L.A.N.D, and all participants in the Street Road Rocks project

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A Sailing Stone in Death Valley, CA: image from Norris R, Norris J, Lorenz R, Ray J, Jackson B (2014) "Sliding Rocks on Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park: First Observation of Rocks in Motion"
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Stone unearthed last fall at Street Road, which we suspect is an old route marker, and which signifies Street Road's location for the L.A.N.D. project.

Concurrent Street Road exhibitions

  • Maryann Worrell and Doug Mott – Crisis Farm
  • Brian Richmond Suburban Landscapes
Sailing stones are a seemingly magical geologic phenomenon, occurring in flat desert expanses: stones move, incrementally, over months or years, leaving long tracks in the sand, appearing mysteriously animated, alive. 

Geologists have come to understand that a combination of low friction sand surfaces, strong winds, and water and ice are the cause of these uncanny travels. A more poetic interpretation is taken as the guiding theme for our upcoming exhibition, Sailing Stones. These strange creatures can be seen as a metaphor for the larger landscapes (both natural and acculturated) that surround us, changing slowly, almost unnoticeably but significantly, over time. Causal relationships are hard to pin down and identify. Some shifts are through human agency, some through human obliviousness, and sometimes it's not clear at all.

The exhibition is a direct descendent of the  Street Road Rocks project, in which we provide a rock to anyone who would like to participate, and ask that they alter the rock in any way they want. Altered rocks have been contributed by local and international artists, local schoolchildren of various ages, and other friends of Street Road both living in the area and from far away.  Last fall, when we had begun to accumulate a fair sized collection of altered rocks, we decided there was critical mass for an exhibition (though Street Road Rocks is ongoing).

Concurrent to this decision, two London based artists participating in Street Road Rocks decided - independently -  to develop their Street Road Rock into long term, larger scale projects:

Egidija Ciricaite’s About Stones began when she broke her rock into pieces and mailed these to diasporan Pennsylvanians living around the world. This has developed into a playful artist’s book that both satirizes and subscribes to the possibility of ‘growing’ stones from one’s homeland to relieve feelings of loss among diaspora members. About Stones at Street Road is a multimedia work, involving printed matter and an installation of two 18 ft high video projections integrated with an indoor and outdoor land art installation.

Kaori Homma's Meridian Stone Project marries her Homma Meridian Project to Street Road Rocks in an ongoing collaborative project, involving international artists from various places: a stone taken from Street Road, and carved with the longitudinal coordinate of the Greenwich Prime Meridian (0º0’0’’) is being mailed around the world, from artist to artist. Each artist participant photographs the stone, in a location geographically important to them, adding a personal narrative about place.

In addition, we include work by two local artists. Pennsylvania artist and educator Julia Dooley presents Images from the Bottom of the World: based around her work as a research team member on a 2007 trip to Antarctica. The contintent's haunting beauty is unveiled through her projected photographs of otherworldly landforms and intricate icy details. Complementing this, Dooley's CryoZen Garden installation is based on a traditional Japanese karesansui garden, but with the introduction of melting land-based ice blocks it models the cryospheric processes of a warming global climate.  Often regarded as a floating island of icebergs and penguins, Antarctica in reality is the world’s fifth largest continent, of sharp mountains and deep valleys overlain with an ice sheet two miles thick on average. 

In counterpoint to Dooley's work, Wilmington DE based José Luis Avila shows his photographs of the striking landscapes of Iceland. His images, projected 18 feet high and also in a series of smaller more intimate light boxes, present a stunning geography that is both harsh reality and magical otherness. 

Finally, LAND, a piece by Danish collective N55, turns a portion of our property into an open space which anyone is free to use. “LAND,” according to a manual by N55, “can be expanded by anybody who wants to add pieces of land to LAND. Formally, the parts of LAND remain the property of the persons participating in this way, but they guarantee that any person can stay in LAND and use it. " The marker for LAND is a flat bottomed stone, possibly an old road marker, unearthed on our site during a previous installation. 

Just like sailing stones as a phenomenon opens up a space in which what we accept as the nature of stone-immutability and permanence - is turned upside down, so do the works in the exhibition present scenarios which bring forth the tension between transience and permanence. They highlight the cultural constructs we impose onto landscape and place, and the fluidity inherent in the world as we experience it, even in something as seemingly fixed as stone.
 
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HOURS — Street Road 
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February 15 – May 31, 2025
Fridays, 5-8pm
Saturdays, 11-3pm
and by appointment, in person or virtually. 

HOURS — Little Free Library 19330 (our 2nd site a few miles north)
Wednesdays 6-9pm
Thursdays 12-4pm
Fridays 10am-2pm
Saturdays 10am-2pm
and by appointment.

NOTE: The LFL19330 will be closed on July 4th & 5th.

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
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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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  • Home
  • Visit
  • CURRENT
    • Becoming Succession
    • HERE: a place-based polar image bridge
    • Near Dwellers
    • Near Dwellers as Friends
    • Near Dwellers as Indwellers
  • Multi-year enquiries, ongoing
    • Near Dwellers
      • 1: Near Dwellers and the Sharing of Breath, SLQS
      • 2: Near Dwellers as Legal Beings, Fawn Daphne Plessner and Susanna Kamon
      • 3: Near Dwellers as Creative Collaborators, Julie Andreyev and Ruth K. Burke
      • 4: Near Dwellers as Urbanites, Jesse Garbe and Doug LaFortune
      • 5: Near Dwellers as Roadkill, Lou Florence
      • 6. Near Dwellers as Friends
      • 7. Near Dwellers as Indwellers
    • Clouded Title
      • Clouded Title 2018
      • Clouded Title 2019
      • Clouded Title 2020/21 - Conversations
    • A(mobile)DRIFT
    • Summer Library
      • Summer Library, Librarian 12 – Robert Good
      • Summer Library, Librarian 11 – Christianna Potter Hannum
      • Summer Library, Librarian 10 – Christopher Murray
      • Summer Library, Librarian 9 – Maya Wasileski
      • Summer Library, Librarian 8 – Logan Cryer
      • Summer Library, Librarian 7 – Rhonda Ike
      • Summer Library 2021 closing event - The Anti-Anthropocene Bonfire Bookburning
      • Summer Library, Librarian 6 – Georgie Devereux
      • Summer Library, Librarian 5 – Mary Tasillo
      • Summer Library, Librarian 4 – Maria Möller
      • Summer Library, Librarian 3 – Rachel Eng
      • Summer Library, Librarian 2 – Lou Florence
      • Summer Library, Librarian 1 – Angella Meanix
  • Outdoor works, ongoing
    • Locust Leap
    • Domestic Rewilding - Ruth K. Burke
    • Supervene Forest
  • past
    • Dennis Haggerty – Various Small Envelopes
    • Multi-year
      • The Dust: American Matter
      • Heterotopia West, Adrian Barron
      • The Post Anthropocene Compost
      • Reigning Heads, Luyi Wang
      • Homma Meridian, by Kaori Homma
      • Folly by Anthony, Dennis, and Nicholas Santella
      • Street Road Rocks
      • Street Road Reading Group
      • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
      • unTOLLed Stories, Emily Artinian & Felise Luchansky
        • unTOLLed Stories
        • unTOLLed stories BLOG
      • Bees - Stella Lou Farm
    • 2023
      • May the Neotropical Arise — Zulu Padilla
    • 2022
      • Un-Boxing
      • Twentysix Wawa Stores
      • Winter Library
      • The Book of Ashes
    • 2021
      • Composting Hegel
      • Street Road Rocks at 10&41
      • Chain mail for bad communicators
      • BABE 2021
    • 2020
      • Castor
      • Dutchirican
    • 2019
      • Roots of Resistance
      • Seven Million Acres: Pride of place
      • LFL Exhibitions: Libbie Sofer, Transported
      • Emily Manko | Now, Then, When
      • Julia Hardman: if they're behind you they go too fast; if they're in front of you they go too slow
      • Summer 2019 Conversations
    • 2018
      • Walking Forward – Looking Back: Carol Maurer
    • 2017
      • Ceramic Sanctuary
      • Homestead: a permaculture project, StellaLou Farm (7/6 to 9/16/2017)
      • Shared Ground: Dennis Santella, Nicholas Santella and Anthony Santella, May-June 2017
      • back, forth: Street Road at 5 years 11/2016-4/2017
        • Anchor 1: Par Exemple, Ebenthal
        • Anchor 2: Homma Meridian
        • Anchor 3: The road out of town, McMurdo Sound
        • Anchor 4: Play Under’ from ‘Underneath
        • Anchor 5: Leni Lenape arrowhead collection
        • Anchor 6 : Open Wall
        • Anchor 7: Supervene Forest
        • Anchor 8: Chalfant
        • Anchor 9: Soviet Apartment Bloc, Tblisi, Georgia
        • Anchor 10 : Enskyment
      • #J20 (1/20/2017)
    • 2016
      • 24 Hour Liminal: Maria Möller (August-October 2016)
      • 7000 Acres: a residents' history of Londonderry Township (May 21-July 15, 2016)
      • The Tent of Casually Observed Phenologies (July 16, 2016)
      • Julia Dooley and Dr. Zoe Courville sci-art student project (4/22-23/16)
      • Maxim D. Shrayer and Christianna Hannum Miller (4/9/2016)
      • Fadi Sultagi's The Sanctuary of Bel, Palmyra (to 4/15/16)
      • Susan Marie Brundage and David A. Parker at Street Road and at The Christiana Motel (to 4/15/16)
      • Sasha Boyle
    • 2015
      • The Road Less Traveled, Danny Aldred
      • Sailing Stones (2015)
        • Julia Dooley: Images from the Bottom of the World and CryoZen Garden
        • José Luis Avila: hOMe
        • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
        • Egidija Ciricate: About Stones
        • L.A.N.D.
      • Crisis Farm: Seed to Table by Maryann Worrell and Doug Mott (2015)
      • Suburban Landscapes: Brian Richmond (2015)
    • 2014
      • Enskyment, by David A. Parker
      • Arterial Motives
        • Arterial Motives Exhibition
        • Arterial Motives Blog
      • Garage and Octorara Student Exhibition
      • Maxim D. Shrayer - Leaving Russia
    • 2013
      • Proposals of Belonging
      • Lost Highway 41 Revisited Blues (2013)
    • 2012
      • Compass (2012)
      • Parallax (2012)
    • 2011
      • The Lay of the Land (2011)
  • Street Road Press
  • Blogs
    • Blog: Winter 2016/17
    • Blog 2011-2016
    • T.S.W.H.
  • Little Free Library
    • Book Club
    • Little Free Library Blog