by admin | May 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
Now, here’s a must-read book! Lynn Cullen’s latest book, The Woman with the Cure, is historical fiction about the last great polio epidemic of the 1950s and race to find a vaccine. Dr. Dorothy Horstmann, a pediatrician, epidemiologist, and virologist was the first...
by admin | Apr 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
Sometimes, an evening you expect to be routine becomes oh so much more! For me, a book signing became a night of art, history, writing and publishing. James Cobb, Professor Emeritus of History at University of Georgia, has just written a biography of C. Vann Woodward,...
by admin | Apr 22, 2023 | Uncategorized
Mary Louise Kelly, NPR news correspondent and anchor of All Things Considered is the daughter of my friend Carol. Her third book, It. Goes. So. Fast., The Year of No Do-Overs, was the subject of her talk and book signing at The Atlanta History Center last night. The...
by Ann Beach | Apr 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
What a glittering event! The ten Townsend Prize finalists, other authors and the want-to-be authors of the Atlanta Writers Club gathered at the beautiful Wimbish House for drinks, dinner, speeches and awards. The Townsend Award is a big deal. Named in memory of Jim...
by Ann Beach | Apr 5, 2023 | Medicine, Uncategorized
I love studying the history of medicine, especially the pre-anesthesia, pre-antibiotic era. Fleming, Osler, Rush, Avicenna, Blackwell, Curie, Pasteur are all familiar friends to me now. So, it’s no surprise to me that nuggets of medical history find me when we are on...
by Ann Beach | Mar 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
I met Dr. Ruth O’Neal in 1975 when I was applying to medical schools. A gruff, older, white-haired lady, she was one of several doctors who interviewed me at Bowman Gray School of Medicine, now called Wake Forest. I remember it so clearly. I wanted medical school more...
