Down Cut Shin Creek Kathi Appelt & Jeanne Cannella Schmitzer

Down Cut Shin Creek

Author: Kathi Appelt & Jeanne Cannella Schmitzer
$12.99 1299
ISBN 979888818244458 pages7.25 x 9 inch hardcover
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During the Depression, thousands lived on the brink of starvation. In 1935 President Roosevelt created the Works Progress Administration which was designed to get people back on their feet. One of its most innovative programs was the Pack Horse Library Project of Eastern Kentucky. Thoroughly researched and illustrated with period photographs, this is the story of one of the WPA’s greatest successes. People from all over contributed books, magazines and newspapers, but it was the librarians themselves—determined young women earning just $28 a month—who brought the hope of a wider world to the people in the hollows of Kentucky’s Cumberland Mountains. *Worldwide titles: These titles may take up to 1-2 weeks to ship, or longer in November and December. Read why here. 

During the Depression, thousands lived on the brink of starvation. In 1935 President Roosevelt created the Works Progress Administration which was designed to get people back on their feet. One of its most innovative programs was the Pack Horse Library Project of Eastern Kentucky.

Thoroughly researched and illustrated with period photographs, this is the story of one of the WPA’s greatest successes. People from all over contributed books, magazines and newspapers, but it was the librarians themselves—determined young women earning just $28 a month—who brought the hope of a wider world to the people in the hollows of Kentucky’s Cumberland Mountains.

*Worldwide titles: These titles may take up to 1-2 weeks to ship, or longer in November and December. Read why here.