Lutie Stearns was a librarian who believed that books have the power to change readers' lives. She fueled this belief by taking books to nearly 1,400 locations in Wisconsin through traveling little libraries between 1895 and 1914. Her cause was picked up in 2009 by a young Wisconsonite who built a small replica of a one-room schoolhouse. He mounted it on a pole, filled it with books and planted it in his front yard. This he did in honor of his retired schoolteacher mother who loved books.