Imagine you live in the hills in Southern Kentucky during the Depression. Your parents probably didn't have jobs. You live in a one-room cabin if you are lucky. You certainly don't have any books or magazines to read. Enter the Pack Horse Library Project of Eastern Kentucky, in which librarians were paid to take donated books and other reading materials to the people living in the hills of Kentucky, which were so rugged and remote, the only way to get around was on a pack horse. The women and men who took on this job were usually residents of the area, themselves. Not only did they deliver materials, they stayed and visited with people along the way, and some repaired books and magazines that were falling apart.
This book is the story of those librarians and the people they served. It is full of photographs of the librarians at work.
Date read: 10/25/2010
ISBN-10: 0060291354
ISBN-13: 9780060291358
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