From HistoryDaily:
In the 1930s, many people living in isolated communities had very little access to jobs, let alone a good education for their children. In Kentucky, they had isolated mountain communities which could only get their books and reading material from one source… librarians on horseback.
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President Franklin Roosevelt was trying to figure out a way to resolve the Great Depression of the 1930s. His Works Progress Administration created the Pack Horse Library Initiative to help Americans become more literate so that they’d have a better chance of finding employment.
Read the rest of the article HERE.
HT: Taffy Cannon
1 comment:
Interesting info and great pictures! I've reposted this on my blog, Platform Number 4, with links to History Daily and Mystery Fanfare.
Becky Michael
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