by Ann Beach | Oct 21, 2026 | Medicine
President Thomas Jefferson commissioned the Corps of Discovery (what we now call the Lewis and Clark Expedition) in 1803 to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase and to find a direct water route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. It was an...
by Ann Beach | Oct 9, 2026 | Medicine
History and classic literature are full of stories of people dying of broken hearts. It is one of the most romantic ideas in storytelling; someone’s love is so powerful their lover dies without it. For example, Catherine Earnshaw (Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte)...
by Ann Beach | Sep 1, 2026 | Medicine
Imagine you’re a liberated woman at the turn of the last century (1890-1915). It’s now allowed for you to travel without an escort and you and some of your friends even have (gasp!) jobs. You are comfortable traveling on public conveyances like buses and trams. You...
by Ann Beach | Jul 25, 2026 | Medicine
With Covid in the rear-view mirror, I put my Covid immunization card and an N-95 mask in my memory box, for children and grandchildren to see one day. What do you associate with Covid? What do you think people will think of 100 years in the future when they read about...
by Ann Beach | Jun 11, 2026 | Medicine
Ludwig van Beethoven, the unparalleled musical genius, died in 1827 at the age of 57. We all remember he was deaf. What a bitter disability for a composer. It is hard to imagine he composed his famous 9th Symphony (including the monumental Ode to Joy) after he lost...
