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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
gutenberg_org ("Project Gutenberg") wrote:
The Women Who Rode Miles on Horseback to Deliver Library Books
Librarians are amazing.
They were known as the “book women.” They would saddle up, usually at dawn, to pick their way along snowy hillsides and through muddy creeks with a simple goal: to deliver reading material to Kentucky’s isolated mountain communities.
BY ANIKA BURGESS. via @atlasobscura
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/librarians-horseback-new-deal-book-delivery-wpa
