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  3. 740 Barclift Lane SE, Tumwater

740 Barclift Lane SE, Tumwater

Sharing books by the Sharing Table.

Joe Riehle photo
Joe Riehle photo
View of the little library from the nearby sharing table.
View of the little library from the nearby sharing table.
Joe Riehle photo
Joe Riehle photo
Posted Saturday, November 28, 2020 7:49 am
By Joe Riehle

#95744

Easily accessible on foot from the Odd Fellow's cemetary is the city of Tumwater's Barclift park. Near the park on Barclift Lane are two monuments to sharing. The Sharing Table has long served the strangely entangled Olympia/Tumwater border zone offering a place for neighbors, regardless of citizenship, to share surplus goods, provided they are hardy to the rain. Books, unfortunately, do not like getting wet. This problem was more recently solved with the advent of a neighboring little library whose jaunty roof easily sloughs off all but the most desperate precipitation.

Book examples:

  • A World of Watchers by Joseph Kastner
  • Two Old Women by Velma Wallis
  • How Roads Are Made by Owen Williams
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