Noted: The first one appeared in Hudson, Wis., in 2009, when Todd Bol, whose background is in international business development, built a little library in his yard as a memorial to his mother, a school teacher. People seemed to love it, he said, so he and friend Rick Brooks of Madison, Wis., an outreach program manager at the University of Wisconsin whose specialties include social entrepreneurship work, decided to create the Little Free Library project.
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