VIRTUAL PROGRAM: Books, Boots & Bridles: The Story of the Horse Back Librarians
OnlineLearn the story of the Pack Horse Library initiative, a little known program of FDR’s Work Progress Administration (WPA). Its mission, carried out almost entirely by women, was to deliver and distribute reading materials to the far off corners of Appalachia during the darkest hours of the Great Depression. Led by Jeffrey Urbin, Education Specialist […]