{"id":143769,"date":"2021-05-07T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T14:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=143769"},"modified":"2021-05-07T16:02:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T20:02:55","slug":"julie-reviews-the-book-woman-of-troublesome-creek-kim-michele-richardson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=143769","title":{"rendered":"Julie Reviews: The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek – Kim Michele Richardson"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I have always been curious about the Depression-era pack horse librarians, so when I saw <\/span>The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek<\/i><\/strong><\/a>, I knew I\u2019d be interested. And I learned a lot, but about more than just this WPA project to bring books to people living in remote parts of the Appalachian Mountains. I also learned that there were people in this area who were born and lived their lives with blue skin, and about the prejudice they faced because of this.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek <\/span><\/i>combines those two threads into a compelling story about a bright and passionate young woman you\u2019ll come to care about. Give it a try!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And if you want to read more about these interesting subjects, here are some links: <\/span>http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blue_Fugates<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/blue-skinned-people-kentucky-reveal-todays-genetic-lesson\/stor<\/span> y?id=15759819<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/dnascience.plos.org\/2016\/09\/22\/finding-the-famous-painting-of-the-blue-people-of-kentuc<\/span> ky\/<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pack_Horse_Library_Project<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/09\/13\/647329067\/the-pack-horse-librarians-of-eastern-kentucky<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This Smithsonian article inspired Jojo Moyes to write The Giver of Stars, another popular novel about the pack horse librarians:\u00a0http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/horse-riding-librarians-were-great-depression-bookmo<\/span> biles-180963786\/<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have always been curious about the Depression-era pack horse librarians, so when I saw The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, I knew I\u2019d be interested. And I learned a lot, but about more than just this WPA project to bring books to people living in remote parts of the Appalachian Mountains. I also learned…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":143770,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-staff-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Book-Woman-Troublesome-Creek.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-BoR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143769"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143772,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143769\/revisions\/143772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/143770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}