Road Trip!

 We’re so excited!  We’re taking a road trip!  It has been awhile since we took an extended trip by car—there is nothing like anticipation!  Packing begins days before departure—lists are made of things not to forget; reservations confirmed for lodging; routes mapped; neighbors notified; but, the most important item to remember—a good book to take along, either audio or visual book to hold, is a MUST! 

Books are a wealth of knowledge!  I did not know about this program nor did I know about the “blue people” of Kentucky. Maybe part fiction but there is a basis of real life in these few words. 

In the isolated hollows of rural Kentucky, they were known as the blue Fugates and the blue Combses. For more than a century, these Appalachian families passed along an exceedingly rare genetic blood condition that turned their skin a disarming shade of blue.

horseback library project, launched by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the depths of the Depression.  A project that, from its inception in 1935 to its end in 1943, reached 1.5 million Kentuckians and enabled nearly 1,000 women to support themselves and their families in 48 Kentucky counties. That in 1956 inspired Kentucky Congressman Carl D. Perkins (who’d benefitted from the Pack Horse Library program as a teacher in Knott County) to sponsor the Library Services Act, which provided the first federal appropriations for library service.

 

So, as I read about blue people, hubster is reading about the gray man! 

A gray man is an average person who does not stand out in a crowd or draw attention to themselves in any way. In military terms, such as for Sierra Six in the film, it means the person who never fails to get their job done before moving away quietly.

These are fast paced books!  the gray man is invincible! 

And there is a standby book, just in case we finish one, we have this one waiting in the wings

Willie Nelson told from the side of his sister Bobbie Nelson--thank goodness, she wrote this family story before her passing.

And for an audible book, we have William Kent Kruger's "Copper River"

Now, I think we are ready to load the car and hit the road!