{"id":108126,"date":"2016-03-26T14:43:51","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T14:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/03\/26\/thedigitallibrarian-longshankstumblarian\/"},"modified":"2018-09-02T21:25:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T21:25:27","slug":"thedigitallibrarian-longshankstumblarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/03\/26\/thedigitallibrarian-longshankstumblarian\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-108126 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/03\/26\/thedigitallibrarian-longshankstumblarian\/attachment\/108127\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/tumblr_o2e4a8m25X1rifnp4o1_500-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/tumblr_o2e4a8m25X1rifnp4o1_500-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/tumblr_o2e4a8m25X1rifnp4o1_500-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/thedigitallibrarian.tumblr.com\/post\/139117207426\" target=\"_blank\">thedigitallibrarian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/longshankstumblarian.tumblr.com\/post\/139115679876\" target=\"_blank\">longshankstumblarian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Women<br \/>\n in the Appalachian mountains on horseback delivering books and reading<br \/>\nto those who could not as a feature of the Works Progress Administration<br \/>\n (WPA) of the 1930\u2019s. \u00a0Established in 1935, the Pack Horse Library<br \/>\nProject was aimed at providing reading materials to rural portions of<br \/>\nEastern Kentucky with no access to public library facilities. Librarians<br \/>\n riding horses or mules traveled 50 to 80 miles a week up rocky<br \/>\ncreekbeds, along muddy footpaths, and among cliffs to deliver reading<br \/>\nmaterials to the most remote residences and schools in the mountains.<br \/>\nSome homes were so remote that the book women often had to go part of<br \/>\nthe way on foot, or even by row boat. \u2014 with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/stephanie.mcspirit\" target=\"_blank\">Stephanie McSpirit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VoicesOfAppalachia\/?fref=photo\" target=\"_blank\">Voices of Appalachia<\/a> (FB)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Petition to bring back librarians on horses<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>thedigitallibrarian: longshankstumblarian: Women in the Appalachian mountains on horseback delivering books and reading to those who could not as a feature of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) of the 1930\u2019s. \u00a0Established in 1935, the Pack Horse Library Project was aimed at providing reading materials to rural portions of Eastern Kentucky with no access to public &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/03\/26\/thedigitallibrarian-longshankstumblarian\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[261,4,13238],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108128,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108126\/revisions\/108128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}