MADEIRA BEACH, Fla. \u2014\u00a0Across the country, there are thousands of Little Free Libraries.<\/p>\n
The libraries provide community members with free books to take, or they can bring their own.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
With the help of volunteers, Judithanne McLauchlan has reopened the one in front of her home.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hurricane Helene destroyed the previous one.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been living in the house, but not until this library came back have I felt like, \u2018Oh, it\u2019s like we\u2019re back home again,\u2019\u201d she said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
McLauchlan doesn\u2019t know where she would be without the help of the volunteers who helped with both her home and library.\u00a0<\/p>\n
One of those volunteers is John Foss.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After seeing the condition of his friend\u2019s home after the hurricane, he said his family wanted to help.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe go to the same church, he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve been friends for 20 years. Got to help friends.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
McLauchlan said it\u2019s been a long journey, but surrounded by many of the people who helped get her here, she couldn\u2019t be happier.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo me, the heart of the community is our little library and a place for neighbors to get to know neighbors,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADEIRA BEACH, Fla. \u2014\u00a0Across the country, there are thousands of Little Free Libraries. The libraries provide community members…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[767,1011,1013,274,770,1190,3125,2200,4628,115,596,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,278,2032,835],"class_list":["post-265882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-app-community","tag-app-human-interest","tag-app-latest-human-interest-stories","tag-app-top-stories","tag-community-news","tag-human-interest","tag-hurricane-helene","tag-instagram-bn9","tag-matt-lackritz","tag-news","tag-pinellas-county","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa","tag-top-stories","tag-trending-topics","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}