Down Cut Shin Creek (Appelt)

Author: Kathi Appelt, Jeanne Cannella Schmitzer

ISBN: 9781948959100

Binding: hardcover

Section: Childrens-Nonfiction

During the Great Depression, thousands lived on the brink of starvation. Many perished. In 1935 President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Works Progress Administration under his 1933 New Deal initiative, designed to get people back on their feet. One of its most innovative programs was the Pack Horse Library Project of Eastern Kentucky. Thoroughly researched and illustrated with period photographs, this is the story of one of the WPA's greatest successes.