Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady

Tidbits Ep 3: The Women Who Rode Miles on Horseback to Deliver Books


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In today's Tidbits episode, Roxanne tells us about about a group of "book women", who would ride 100 to 120 miles a week on their own horses or mules to deliver reading material to Kentucky’s isolated mountain communities in the 1940's.
The Pack Horse Library initiative was part of President Franklin Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration (WPA), created to help lift America out of the Great Depression
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