Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Book women”
“The Book Woman is coming!” One of the things I really liked when I was researching for my book, Along a Storied Trail, was how I kept coming across stories of how much the mountain people loved the packhorse librarians they called the book women. For many of them the packhorse libraries were their first experience with libraries since their communities didn’t …
Welcome to the Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt! If you’ve just discovered the hunt, be sure to start at Stop #1, and collect the clues through all the stops, in order, so you can enter to win one of our top 5 grand prizes! • The hunt BEGINS on 10/21 at noon MST with Stop #1 at LisaTawnBergren.com. • Hunt …
“Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.” ―Anne Herbert I owe a big debt to my local library for all the books I was able to carry home and read when I was a kid. I owe even more for all the help I found at the …
“Book woman, give me a book.” That was what the packhorse librarians often heard when they rode up to a schoolhouse on their horse or mule with their saddlebags or sometimes gunnysacks full of library books. Many of the mountain children had little access to books and it was exciting to get something new and different to read. The packhorse …