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Cedar Springs, Michigan: Big Library Owl of Wisdom

Large steel owl with an owl-splaining expression and a book under its wing stands next to a bronze girl reading obliviously on a park bench. Unveiled May 2021.

Address:
107 N. Main St. NE, Cedar Springs, MI
Directions:
In the park behind Cedar Springs Library, on the northwest corner of N. Main St. NE and W. Maple St. NE.
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Big Library Owl of Wisdom

The owl seems friendly enough.

[Keith, 09/15/2021]

A Michigan artist sculpted the steel owl for the Cedar Springs library, but it didn't look right by itself. So the town found a bronze statue of a girl reading a book outside a library in Nebraska, and brought her here.


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