Fisher Poet
Dave Densmore fishes for words – upon a sea that took his family. That memory is written on his face. For twenty years he tried to write a poem about his family’s tragedy. Dave sought words like he searched for salmon. ...
Still Doctoring Babies at 98
Dr. Leila Denmark opened her medical practice in 1928. She was Atlanta’s first female pediatrician and was STILL healing children until her retirement at 104. That retirement lasted a decade. She lived to be 114, the oldest doctor in the world.
Fight for a Homeland
Maurice Gordon can still hear the muffled crack of dry thunder. The memories of war. He joined 10-thousand other Americans and headed to the land of the Pharaoh’s. They formed a Jewish Legion, the first in nearly 2-thousand years to fight for a homeland.
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