Hi all! The other day I was thinking how strange it was that I don’t have more wayspot nominations related to literature , or literary places/things/sculptures. Whenever I see them I get so excited (like when I saw the wayspot for Mark Twain’s house in New York at GO Fest last year). So please let me see your favorite Wayspots featuring anything related to a book!
Places to read or buy them, statues related to them, or anything else you can think of all count. Here are a few of mine (including the first nomination I ever made):
It’s the base of a statue that once was placed in Zürich, Switzerland to commemorate a character from “Hadlaub” by Gottfried Keller, a book that revolves around a famous Swiss bard. It got destroyed by a flying branch during a storm, but they kept the socket at Platzspitz park
I was walking on some lesser-used trails in a gorgeous nature area one day when I stumbled (almost literally!) upon this memorial to a columnist I’d read frequently in my youth. His features were always warm, kind, and graceful portraits of humanity, and I miss his gentle point of view. I feel honored to have submitted this Wayspot!
There used to be a central location where books would be exchanged between different library locations in the Netherlands. The facility was moved away and apartments were built inside the complex instead. To still keep the memory of the building’s original purpose they moved an art piece that has been stored for years back out for the public to see. It shows a stack of books in concrete, which is fitting the purpose of the original building perfectly.
The church is the inspiration for a poem by Sir John Betjeman: Summoned by Bells. A copy of the poem is in the church next to the bell that inspired it.
Extract
I owe it to St. Ervan and his priest
In their small hollow deep in sycamores.
The time was tea-time, calm free-wheeling time,
When from slashed tree-tops in the combe below
I heard a bell-note floating to the sun;
It gave significance to lichened stone
And large red admirals with outspread wings
Basking on buddleia. So, coasting down
In the cool shade of interlacing boughs,
I found St. Ervan’s partly ruined church.
Its bearded Rector, holding in one hand
A gong-stick, in the other hand a book,
Struck, while he read, a heavy-sounding bell,
Hung from an elm bough by the churchyard gate.
“Better come in. It’s time for Evensong.”
He is buried at another Cornish Church St Enodoc and his Grave is a wayspot too.
Listen to the poetry of colors - from the six rainbow benches, all wayspots.
The benches are represented and placed along a 1km stretch of the long beach promenade in the city of Jönköping, Sweden.
If you want to hear or read the entire poem, scan the QR code on the bench, which will take you to its website. Jönköpings Litteraturhus has commissioned the rainbow benches and poems that would interpret the colors from an anonymous group of local poets consisting of LGBTQI people.
I upgraded it to move it along faster. I didn’t put much into the description here. It was a long day and cell signal was a pain. But i think it’s an important book store, so I’m glad it was approved.
This is great ! I always tell people check pokestops. Alot in santa cruz and other places j have been have fun facts too its cool ! I wish we could nominate gardens
