Book Review: ‘The Bookwoman’s Daughter’: A Rugged Woman Inhabits the Kentucky Hills

Book Review: ‘The Bookwoman’s Daughter’: A Rugged Woman Inhabits the Kentucky Hills
Pack Horse Librarians: Averaging 100 to 120 miles each week, the Pack Horse Librarians of Eastern Kentucky delivered books to families in Appalachia during the Great Depression. Courtesy of Blue Ridge County
Anita L. Sherman
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It’s 1953. Honey Mary-Angeline Lovett, the daughter of the beloved book woman of Troublesome Creek, finds herself alone.

She carries the heritage of her mother, Cussy Mary Lovett, who delivered books to rural families some 17 years earlier under an initiative created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt: the Kentucky Pack Horse Librarian Project.

Anita L. Sherman
Anita L. Sherman
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Anita L. Sherman is an award-winning journalist who has more than 20 years of experience as a writer and editor for local papers and regional publications in Virginia. She now works as a freelance writer and is working on her first novel. She is the mother of three grown children and grandmother to four, and she resides in Warrenton, Va. She can be reached at [email protected]
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