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The Pack Horse Librarians of Appalachia tells the story of pack horse librarians–women hired by Franklin Roosevelt’s Work Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression to travel on horseback to deliver library books and magazines to people in Eastern Kentucky, braving creeks, mountains and inclement weather along the way.

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Episode 101 - The Keepers: The Pack Horse Librarians of Eastern Kentucky

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During the Depression, as part of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, the Kentucky WPA hired pack horse librarians, mostly women, to carry books to isolated cabins, rural school houses and homebound coalminers in the poverty stricken Appalachian Mountains.

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USO Indo-Pacific and USO Europe | Middle East | Africa will host our monthly Overseas Virtual Book Club discussing "The Giver of Stars" by Jojo Moyes on April 11th at 2000 JST on Zoom

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Introductions

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1. What do you know about Kentucky? Does this novel confirm your notion about this state? Are there other states that you think of while reading the novel?

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2. Did you know anything about the real-life Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky prior to reading this novel? Would you want to be a mobile librarian if you lived in a small town in Kentucky? Would it be worth the risks for you?

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3. Why do you think Alice married Bennett? What kind of life did she expect in America?

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4. Life in rural Kentucky in the ’30s was not easy. How do you think you would have handled it?

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6. Why did Alice decide to join the librarians on their quest? Why it was so important for these women to share literacy with rural residents?

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7. Literacy and censorship are significant issues in THE GIVER OF STARS, issues that affect the women of the novel very differently from the men. Why do you think Moyes chose to focus on these topics?

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8. The novel features families from vastly different backgrounds, and one of the central issues in the book is that of class inequality. In which scenarios did you see these dynamics play out, and between which characters?

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9. What do you think caused some men to feel wary of the mobile library? What motivated them to stop their wives and children from reading? (other than the Bible)

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10. Why do you think Margery refuses to marry Sven at first?

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11. What do you think of Izzy’s character growth? Think about the scene when she rescues the children from the flood.

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12. What motivates Mr. Van Cleve, especially later in the book?

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13. What do you think about Bennett? Do you think Alice’s marriage would have worked?

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14. What did you think of Sophia’s character? Is working at the library good for her?

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15. This book explores male violence, with many women (Margery, Alice, Sophia) having violent or intimidating encounters with men. Meanwhile, the rest of the women are reprimanded for showing their strength. Do you think the book explored this issue well?

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16. What does this book want to say about the importance of books?

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17. Which of the female characters was your favorite one? Why?

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18. What did you take away from the story? What has changed in society and what hasn’t?

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