| Contents |
Introduction: Finding compassion in my back yard / by Joyce Moyer Hostetter -- Almost there: The World War II home front in Catawba County / by Jeremy Wilson -- Polio in the time of Roosevelt / by Erin LeGrand -- Polio and its players / by Heather Deckelnick -- Polio and the black community / by Johnny Scott -- Polio and the birth and growth of the Allied Health Services / by Jason Elder -- Poliomyelitis: an overview / by Terry Messick -- Polio: a community perspective / by Jerry Goodnight -- Unlocking the environmental impacts on genetics of the Hickory polio epidemic / by Rachel Crosby -- Thematic illness in performance / by Kim Stinson -- America's "Miracle City": The 1944 Hickory, NC polio epidemic / by Richard Eller -- The March of Dimes to the courthouse / by Jeffrey D. Penley -- Left behind: Artifacts of the 1944 polio epidemic and their curation / by Executive Director, Dr. Amber Clawson. |
| Abstract |
Polio, Pitchforks and Perseverance is a study of a ?miracle,? a look into a battle fought immediately post World War ii where a small community gathered together to fight an insidious nemesis similar those in the European and Pacific theaters. Fourteen essays from a variety of disciplines cover the 1944 battle including essays on the time period, the disease poliomyelitis, the legal ramifications, personal interviews with survivors of the battle and a history and the creation of the Polio emergency hospital--the Miracle--in Hickory by the residents of Catawba County. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 392-415). |
| Acquisitions source |
Laupus- Daniel Shingleton, donor. |
| ISBN | 9781537303246 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 1537303244 (paperback) |
