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Pack-Horse Library
Location : Cut Shin, KY
Description : Rough and ready pioneering jobs are part of the employment which Kentucky's libraries, with the help of FERA funds, have provided for young women. Along with employing [illegible]. Down in Leslie County where [illegible] in the mountains and the only way to get to them is along creek beds, four women, all under 30 years of age, distribute books on horseback. Five hundred volumes which the Leslie County Board of Education and interested citizens have collected for the special use of mountain people are kept in circulation all the time. Rain or shine, the four pack-horse librarians trail many miles through stony, tree-lined creek beds to supply 57 isolated communities with practically the first library books they have ever had. Listed Under:
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