The Women Who Rode Miles on Horseback to Deliver Library Books

The Women Who Rode Miles on Horseback to Deliver Library Books - Librarians are amazing. BY ANIKA BURGESS AUGUST 31, 2017

I was looking for Erin Snell in the pictures… 

FTA: 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.

The Pack Horse Library initiative was part of President Franklin Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration (WPA), created to help lift America out of the Great Depression, during which, by 1933, unemployment had risen to 40 percent in Appalachia. Roving horseback libraries weren’t entirely new to Kentucky, but this initiative was an opportunity to boost both employment and literacy at the same time.

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Old magazines and newspapers were cut and pasted into scrapbooks with particular themes—recipes, for example, or crafts. One such scrapbook, which still is held today at the FDR Presidential Library & Museum in Hyde Park, New York, contains recipes pasted into a notebook with the following introduction: “Cook books are popular. Anything to do with canning or preserving is welcomed.”

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VOCAL TRANCE: Aurosonic & Susana - Weather The Storm (Extended Intro Mix...

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Aurosonic & Susana - Weather The Storm:

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As far as my eyes can see

The snow stretches endlessly

The road we once paved now disappeared

Revealing my deepest fears

Winter never felt so lonely

It's cold as ice this time around

Loneliness has found its way

Without you by my side

Silence is here to stay

But I know that seasons change

I know we'll see another day

Just have to wait it out

And find ourselves a safe place in the storm

I know the sun will rise

We'll get to hold each other tight

Just have to trust that only love

Can weather the storm

Weather the storm [2x]

Things look different in the light of the morning sun

I feel the promise of a brand new dawn

The life we once knew is a dream that's so far away

But we can make it to a brighter day

Winter never felt so lonely

It's cold as ice this time around

Loneliness has found its way

Without you by my side

Silence is here to stay

But I know that seasons change

I know we'll see another day

Just have to wait it out

And find ourselves a safe place in the storm

I know the sun will rise

We'll get to hold each other tight

Just have to trust that only love

Can weather the storm

Weather the storm [3x]

But I know that seasons change

I know we'll see another day

Just have to wait it out

And find ourselves a safe place in the storm

I know the sun will rise

We'll get to hold each other tight

Just have to trust that only love

Can weather the storm

Weather the storm [2x]

The storm [2x]

But I know that seasons change

I know we'll see another day

Just have to wait it out

And find ourselves a safe place in the storm

I know the sun will rise

We'll get to hold each other tight

Just have to trust that only love

Can weather the storm

DamNation | The Problem with Hydropower

Tuesday, January 11, 2022: “DamNation” | The Problem with Hydropower - I watched at a documentary today about the evolution of our thinking about building dams for flood control and navigation purposes. In recent years much of our thinking has evolved to better understand that the benefit of the dams does not outweigh the damage to the environment. According to an introduction to the documentary, “This film explores the evolution of our national attitude from pride in big dams as engineering wonders to the growing awareness that our own future is bound to the life and health of wild rivers.

Produced by Matt Stoecker & Travis Rummel. Directed by Ben Knight & Travis Rummel