Missionaries, government, social workers, and various religious groups have always visited eastern Kentucky to reform, modernize, and mold hillfolk to their acceptable standards. How has a librarian or booklover impacted your life? Have you ever connected with a book or author in a meaningful way? Explain.ģ. Looking at the novel, how did the program affect the people in this remote area? Do you think library programs are still a vital part of our society today?Ģ.
The Kentucky Pack Horse program was implemented in 1935 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to create women’s work programs and to assist economic recovery and build literacy. Read our interview with Kim Michele Richardson on the Reading Group Choices blog! less …ġ. Inspired by the true blue-skinned people of Kentucky and the brave and dedicated Kentucky Pack Horse library service of the 1930s, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is a story of raw courage, fierce strength, and one woman’s belief that books can carry us anywhere-even back home.
If Cussy wants to bring the joy of books to the complex and hardscrabble Kentuckians, she’s going to have to confront dangers and prejudice as old as the Appalachias, and suspicion as deep as the holler. Not everyone is keen on Cussy’s family or the government’s new book program, and along her treacherous route, Cussy faces doubters at every turn. Thanks to Roosevelt’s Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome’s got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter.Ĭussy’s not only a book woman, however she’s also the last of her kind, her skin a shade of blue unlike most anyone else. The folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything-everything except books, that is.
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