Their horses splashed through iced-over creeks. Librarians rode up into the Kentucky mountains, their saddlebags stuffed with books, doling out reading material to isolated rural people. The Great Depression had plunged the nation into poverty, and Kentucky—a poor state made even poorer by a p...
In the 1980s, mountain horses began to attract the attention of people outside of eastern Kentucky. As people traveled to the region to learn more about these horses, they also began to learn about and develop friendships with the people of Appalachia. Listen as our narrators share their mem...
The Kentucky Pack Horse Libraries project was a government-funded Works Progress Administration programme that paid librarians, mostly women, to deliver reading material on the backs of horses and mules to rural Appalachian mountaineers in eastern Kentucky from 1936 to 1943. As part of their work, ...
To answer these questions, I examine data collected through ethnographic research in equestrian culture. First, I consider the skills and attributes seen as key to Grand Prix achievement. Because show jumping is both a sport and one part of a broader for-profit horse industry, next I analyse t...
This dissertation examines the dual relationship Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) students at Kentucky community colleges have with their institution as... SB Edington - 《Adult Vocational Education》 被引量: 1发表: 2000年 HOW TO LOOK A GIFT HORSE IN THE MOUTH Librarians often have more reas...
This article examines collected recipes from scrapbooks maintained by Kentucky's Pack Horse Librarians (1936-43).Kentucky LibrariesJason M Vance
However, the legacy that the book women or packhorse librarians left behind led to support for public libraries, one of which is the federal funding in 1957 to the Kentucky Department of Libraries which allowed it to resume the services left behind by the packhorse librarians in 1943.Boyd...
Pack Horse LibrariansFocuses on pack horse librarians who had travelled the mountains of eastern Kentucky from 1935 to 1943. Challenges faced by the librarians; Significance of their job.Click
By accounting for these changing perceptions and by examining the history of outreach services conducted prior to the Great Depression, a better understanding of why the packhorse librarians were readily accepted by a relatively closed and isolated culture emerges. Additionally, this dissertation sheds ...