JIM VAIKNORAS/Staff photoConnie Condon of Newburyport is a retired teacher and long time volunteer of the Amesbury Public Library. For her 70th birthday, her four children and 9 grandchildren surprised her with a gift of a Little Free Library outside her home at 2A Hill Street. It's a weather-proof box, outfitted with a see-through door and a cedar shingle roof. On any given day it is stocked with over 30 novels and children's books, all free for the taking.

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