Mt Zion Baptist Church Library

03/18/2026

03/15/2026

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03/14/2026

These are the most popular books around for our preschoolers! Thank you to the MZBC Weekday classes of 4s, Pre-Ks and Kindergarten for donating them!! Now together them ready to checkout! 📕

03/04/2026

It’s Read Across America Week, and here are some ways to raise little readers and nurture their love for reading and books.

11/15/2025

MZBC Family: Bring your filled OCC Shoeboxes to the Sanctuary this Sunday Morning for Collection Day!!❤️

09/22/2025

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BWxkMR6fR/?mibextid=wwXIfr

The year was 1935. America was starving, and in the hills of Appalachia, hope seemed gone. But while breadlines stretched long and factories stayed locked, a quiet army rose—not with weapons, but with books.

They were called the Book Women.

Daughters of miners, young mothers, widows—they saddled horses and mules, braving floods, blizzards, and miles of wilderness with nothing but grit and saddlebags stuffed with tattered novels, recipe books, almanacs, and magazines. Week after week, they rode 100 to 200 miles, carrying not food, but something just as vital: words.

Children waited on porches for stories to lift them out of hunger. Miners’ wives clutched cookbooks filled with hope scribbled in the margins. Farmers traced weather charts, dreaming of harvests that might save them.

By 1943, the war ended the program, but not before these women had delivered more than 100,000 books to 100,000 people. They weren’t just librarians. They were lifelines.

History remembers the Great Depression for its despair. But it should also remember the women who rode through the storm with stories that kept the human spirit alive.

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09/10/2025

Did you ever use one of these for research?? Answer yes with a 👍🏻

Google in the 1970s 😆