How far would you go in love with book?

This is a story of Kentucky, it is located in the east south central-region of the US. Its officially called Commonwealth of Kentucky. It is originally a part of Verginia and Kentucky is known as the "Bluegrass State", a nickname based on the Bluegrass that found in many of its pastures due to the fertile soil of the area.

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Kentucky is famous for horse racing, Bourbon Whisky, coal and Kentucky Fried Chicken is very known name in food world. But this Kentucky made a very historic movement during the Great Depression. Between 1935 and 1943 women were involved in a project and they were known by ''Book Women''.image credit: google search
The Pack Horse Library Project was a program in Kentucky which delivered books to remote regions in the Appalachian Mountains from 30 different libraries these women would ride up to 120 miles every week on horseback, regardless of weather, traversing dangerous terrain to ensure that their readers received their books on time.

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