Tag: Polio
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Echos: Polio, Diversity, and the Cold War
This is the first of a two part series about Polio, Cultural Diversity, and the Cold war. I’ve been reading Polio stories, both narratives and fiction, each true in its own way. In my experience, the subject fits the weather, hot one day, then wet and cold the next. I contracted the virus over the…
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My Life Is A Gift
This morning I met with a student who is working on a piece of historical fiction about distant family members who were settlers in the Dakotas. As we spoke about her writing, she mentioned fire that had burned the upper floor of this family’s mansion. The student had found a report in the town newspaper…
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