Take One, Give One: A Day at the Bryant Street Free Library

Mission Loc@l

By Molly Oleson 

LibraryThe tree in front of Francis Baker’s Bryant Street apartment was once a dumping ground for junk. Anything from building materials to trash to old mattresses would appear, and then disappear with a new owner.

Baker, a photographer and sculptor, saw potential for a more positive exchange. ”I thought, people are already sharing stuff in this little area,” he says, sitting in the sunny backyard of his home.

What started as a craft project with his seven-year-old son Leo has become the Bryant Street Free Library, a book share made of 100 percent recycled materials that was installed in front of the tree at the beginning of August.

I’ve been into this idea of reusing, recycling and finding things and repurposing them,” Baker says. “And trying not to let things go to the landfill.”

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