![]() ![]() What I learned taught me a lot about the power of words in hard times, and the courage of those who traveled to shared them.īy 1933, unemployment in Appalachia had risen to 40%. Perkins (who’d benefitted from the Pack Horse Library program as a teacher in Knott County) to sponsor the Library Services Act, which provided the first federal appropriations for library service. So how come I’d never heard of this steep-trail horseback library project, launched by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the depths of the Depression? A project that, from its inception in 1935 to its end in 1943, reached 1.5 million Kentuckians and enabled nearly 1,000 women to support themselves and their families in 48 Kentucky counties? That in 1956 inspired Kentucky Congressman Carl D. ![]() ![]() A few months back, I came across a novel by Kentucky writer Kim Michele Richardson, “The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek.” Compulsively readable, Richardson’s novel tells the story of Cussy Carter, the last of the “Kentucky Blue” people, who takes a job with the Depression-era WPA Pack Horse Library project to deliver books into the remote mountains of eastern Kentucky. ![]()
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