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Beloved ash tree reborn as Little Free Library

Among the reasons Sarah Austin chose to live at the corner of Loomis Street and Olive Road in Homewood: She loves her bungalow, she loves the neighborhood and she loved the seven beautiful ash trees that shaded the property.

Notice the past tense.

Sarah Austin, left, shows Ron Ehlers the door she has crafted
for a children’s book section of the Little Free Library the
two are building in Homewood.
 
(Eric Crump photos/H-F Chronicle)

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