Ghost Bike Memorial To Be Held For Brookline Children's Librarian

BROOKLINE, MA — Flowers and cards showed up outside the library in the days following the news that Paula Sharaga, who’d worked as a Children's librarian at the Coolidge Corner branch of the town library for some two decades, was killed by a cement truck on Friday afternoon in the Fenway area.

Saturday, a memorial known as a "Ghost Bike" will be held to honor the woman who many - from Brookline to Boston to Cambridge - had come to know and love.

If you've driven near Longwood, you may have seen one chained to a fence along Carlton Street after a young man was killed riding his bike there. Ghost Bikes are memorials for bicyclists who are killed or hit while riding. A bike is painted all white and locked to a street sign near the crash site, accompanied by a small plaque.

A white bicycle memorial and plaque will be installed in her memory at corner of the intersection of Brookline Avenue and Park Drive at 2 p.m. Saturday.

“All are welcome to come connect with others in the community and remember that you are not alone out there when you ride,” the Boston Cyclists Union of the Facebook event.

The ceremonies pop up to honor cyclists who have died in crashes and to spread awareness of bike safety and road safety.

"It is a profound act of devotion to gather and make visible with our bodies what is so often invisible on our roads," tweeted Rev. Laura Everett.

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• Brookline Children's Librarian Died In Bicycle Crash
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• Who Paints Boston's Ghost Bikes?
• Fatal Bike Crash In Brookline on Carlton Street

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