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Location
Janet Ayers Academic Center 4094
Event Website
https://www.belmont.edu/liberal-arts/symposium/index.html
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
30-9-2021 10:00 AM
End Date
30-9-2021 10:50 AM
Description
The Great Depression devastated the nation, but especially hard-hit was Eastern
Kentucky – a region already steeped in poverty and so isolated as to have few roads
and no electricity. The WPA Packhorse Library helped to change the lives of many by
bringing them access to the world through books and ideas.
Recommended Citation
Schmitzer, Jeane Canella, "Poor Girls and Book-laden Mules=Access to the World: The WPA Packhorse Library Project" (2021). Humanities Symposium. 15.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2021/2021/15
Transcript
Poor Girls and Book-laden Mules=Access to the World: The WPA Packhorse Library Project
Janet Ayers Academic Center 4094
The Great Depression devastated the nation, but especially hard-hit was Eastern
Kentucky – a region already steeped in poverty and so isolated as to have few roads
and no electricity. The WPA Packhorse Library helped to change the lives of many by
bringing them access to the world through books and ideas.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2021/2021/15
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