Maybe a My Little Library (on wheels)

Here’s an interesting little free library with wheels. 

I have contacted the main office of https://littlefreelibrary.org/ hoping they will approve of my vintage trailer becoming a little free library. Since they are a non profit organization it would make me a nonprofit business under their umbrella. We’ll see how they respond.

In the meantime I am beginning to clean and take apart the trailer to make room for the shelves Dave will build when we return to Texas. Access to his shop of tools will make the renovation process easier.

I have a new-to-me “old” truck which I hope will pull the trailer successfully from N.Idaho to Texas.

It’s a bright yellow and white 1975 vintage Chevy.

It would be great to match the yellow and decorate the trailer in polka dots - kinda like Lopshire’s

Can you see how exciting this project can be? Parades, library visits, local author programming….and more ….tantalizing the young reader to become a bibliophile!

The Muse of Dedication

                                                    

"If you're dedicated, if it's something that lives and breathes in your heart, then                 you've simply got to go ahead and do it."

— Rodney Crowell

I believe the key word in the above quote is dedicated! To be dedicated to any ideal, passion, hobby, adventure, spark, idea, theology = person, place or thing, it will “live and breathe in your heart” until addressed. And yes, perhaps this person, place or thing will never be given its due attention.

That is sad because the carrier of said passion will feel incomplete and nonessential. These are strong thoughts. These strong thoughts could spark much discussion. I wish they would.

And so here I sit - feeling quite content that I am diving off yet another high board. The possibility of wheeling down the road with a bookmobile trailer, vintage to boot, pulled by a very old truck that is not perfect, yet functional, delights me.

I, too, am vintage, very old, not perfect, yet still functional and ready to follow my muse into this bookmobile world.

I am going to “go ahead and do it.”

Your thoughts?

Vintage Bookmobile Acquisition

Isn’t it good lookin’?                       (Photo from Craigslist/Spokane listing)

The actual transaction occurs tomorrow. I am more than thrilled to have found the perfect vintage trailer for my bookmobile charity.

It is a 1968 Timberline, “born” the same year of my first son!

It was slightly modified to accommodate an audio book recording business, so we don’t need to fret over undoing anything vintage that would negate the trailer’s value.

Shelves are to be installed and we’re ready to stock it - well, not quite…..need to set up the 501c3 status and the LLC. 

And the fun part collecting books, redistributing them to those kids in need and “advancing children’s literacy book by book” (my motto) is our goal.

The journey begins soon!

Hop aboard!

Jamajoan's Vintage Bookmobile

                                                (stock photo of what life was like when.......)

It is going to be a reality! I am in, totally in and enthralled with the concept.

Free books for children, delivered to rural areas, available at farmers' markets, festivals, library gatherings hither and yon.

I am convinced the concept, although not original, will work for me. There are never enough books for children. I am aware that technology can be a current outlet for reading, but to hold the book, turn the page, delight in the illustrations, turn back, reread, and have favorites is what this is all about. 

I also plan to spotlight local children's authors by providing a delightful platform for readings, signings, interactions with real live authors and as to be expected, signed books for sale. 

This is going to be exhilarating, exhausting and intriguing for me. The power of literacy and the availability of free books for children is a win-win formula.

Do you agree?

And so my vintage trailer becomes Jamajoan's Vintage Bookmobile.

I'm in and filing for a 501c3 this week. It is going to be a reality!

The travels are just beginning and the journey of giving and sharing is well anticipated.

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