![]() ![]() ![]() The initiative alone was a fascinating, unknown part of history, but having it mostly women-driven made it more unique. Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration (WPA), as an effort to put women to work by bringing books and reading material to the poorest and most isolated areas in eastern Kentucky. It would be almost twenty years until the service was revived under President Franklin D. But a year later the program expired when Mayo died. Mayo, to subsidize a mounted library service to reach people in poor and remote areas. Kim Michele Richardson: It was actually in 1913 when the Kentucky Federation of Women’s Clubs convinced a local coal baron, John C. ![]()
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