VIRTUAL Books, Boots & Bridles: The Story of the Horse Back Librarians

Tuesday, July 122:00—3:00 PMVirtualThe Newbury Town Library0 Lunt St. , Byfield, MA, 01922

**PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A VIRTUAL PROGRAM THAT WILL TAKE PLACE VIA ZOOM. Registrants will receive a link to access the Zoom Meeting via email.** 

Learn the story of the Pack Horse Library initiative, a little known program of FDR’s Work Progress Administration (WPA). Its mission, carried out almost entirely by women, was to deliver and distribute reading materials to the far off corners of Appalachia during the darkest hours of the Great Depression. Led byJeffrey Urbin, Education Specialist at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.

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