Hoosier Library Day

Trail with a Tale

I have found a few letterboxes in Kentucky labeled "Super Hero Series."  It looks like back in 2008 Kentuckian boxers went out and planted boxes with a super hero theme.  I thought it would be cool if boxers across Indiana would do something like this.

I got on the message boards and we decided on National Library Day, April 11.  I got busy and made 2 boxes.  I carved the stamps, made pouches, logbooks, containers, etc.  They sat on the corner of my desk for a month all ready to go.  I was going to plant one in the library in Mount Vernon, just west of Evansville.  The other would go in a Little Free Library at the northern end of Vanderburgh County.

Bad selfie with letterbox

My boxing buddy, G-MA, doesn't carve and she doesn't like to plant but I suggested that she ask a family friend, Wise Wanderer, to make a box for her.  Wise Wanderer lives in Washington and sends boxes to G-MA from time to time.  But she was not able to this time.  I decided that I would make one.  There is a Little Free Library just a few doors down from one of G-MAs kids.  I got on the LFL website, got the email of the owners, and got their permission to plant the box.

My 1st two Hoosier Library Boxes

While I was on the LFL website I noticed a new LFL in Evansville and I had to make a box for it too.  My boxes doubled in a day.  I planted three of them on April 10th and one on April 11th.  I now have a box in every LFL in Evansville.

After planting all my boxes, I talked with G-MA and she said that she tried to talk to the owners of the LFL near her kids house but no one answered the door.  It would have been funny if we both planted a box there.

My last two Hoosier Library Boxes

I planted 4 boxes and didn't take a picture of a single location!  I must be loosing it.  I did take pics of my stamps.

The boxer who took my spot in BOTM planted a box for Hoosier Library Day and I did get a pic of that.  It is at a new reading path at a local park.  I wanted to get me & the kids with the signs in the background but that didn't work out.

Some people said that they would be late planting their boxes for the event.  So far we have 7 :)