In the 1930s in Kentucky, women on horseback delivered library books, traveling over 100 miles per week, as part of a WPA initiative to increase employment and literacy.
Read the full article at Atlas Obscura.
Thanks, Linda Gresham!
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two blogs mixed together!
How cool is that? I mean it is really cool 😎
wow, that would have been my perfect job!!