The book was surprise-announced on stage at a sold-out hometown show at The Pyrle in Greensboro, NC — then launched the following week at the Public Library Association Conference in Minneapolis, MN.
For anyone new to the song, Sarah told the story. During the Great Depression, the federal government funded a program that paid women to ride horses and mules deep into the mountains of Appalachia, delivering library books to families who had no other way to get them. These women gathered over 200,000 books themselves. They served more than 50,000 people. They did it on horseback, through the hollows and ridgelines of Kentucky, with nothing but determination and a saddlebag full of stories.
