BoydDonaldC.EBSCO_AspLibraries & the Cultural RecordBoyd, Donald. "The Book Women of Kentucky: The WPA Pack Horse Library Project, 1936-1943." Libraries and the Cultural Record 42, no. 2 (2007).Boyd, Donald C. "The Book Women of Kentucky: The WPA Pack Horse Library Project, 1936- ...
This presented a challenge: In 1935, Kentucky only circulated one book per capita compared to the American Library Association standard of five to ten, writes historian Jeanne Cannella Schmitzer,. It was "a distressing picture of library conditions and needs in Kentucky," wrote Lena Nofcier, ...
Imagine your librarian delivered them personally to your door as JoJo Moyes’ Kentucky packhorse librarians do in her latest novel – The Giver of Stars. Chronicling the real story of Appalachian women in the WPA (Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration), Moyes creates a tale about five women...
Define bookmobile. bookmobile synonyms, bookmobile pronunciation, bookmobile translation, English dictionary definition of bookmobile. n. A truck, trailer, or van equipped to serve as a mobile lending library. American Heritage® Dictionary of the Engl
With every good, there comes a bad. There are those in town, including Alice’s ridiculous father-in-law, who oppose the packhorse library and believe it’s spreading indecency and immoral content to the good people of Kentucky. The weather and the terrain itself is a constant challenge. ...
Inspired by the true blue-skinned people of Kentucky and the brave and dedicated Kentucky Pack Horse library service of the 1930s, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is a story of raw courage, fierce strength, and one woman’s belief that books can carry us anywhere—even back home. ...
“The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek”, the last book I read in 2019, is without a doubt one of the best books of 2019. The beautiful writing pulled me into the story and kept me entranced to the very end. I was fascinated with the story of the Kentucky Pack Horse library servic...
The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything --- everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt’s Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome has its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter. Cussy's not on
1. The Kentucky Pack Horse program was implemented in 1935 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to create women’s work programs and to assist economic recovery and build literacy. Looking at the novel, how did the program affect the people in this remote area? Do you think library pr...
But then she gets to Baileyville, Kentucky, which is nothing like she envisioned. She feels isolated and she is lonely and she does not know what to do next. And before she realizes what she is doing, she volunteers for the new Baileyville packhorse library even though the people running ...