Nurses in Opera – 6 Oct 2024
First in a Series of Ten Blogs offering A Short History of Nursing from antiquity through the mid-twentieth century. Part 1 – From Sacred to Secular – covers nursing in…
Nurses in Opera – 14 Sep 2024
A series of five Blogs discussing the literary component of the story of Judith found in the Apocrypha in light of composer Alexander Serov’s own professed expectations for opera, to…
Nurses in Opera – 24 Aug 2024
A series of five Blogs discussing the literary component of the story of Judith found in the Apocrypha in light of composer Alexander Serov’s own professed expectations for opera, to…
Nurses in Opera – 4 Aug 2024
A series of five Blogs discussing the literary component of the story of Judith found in the Apocrypha in light of composer Alexander Serov’s own professed expectations for opera, to…
Nurses in Opera – 14 Jul 2024
A series of five Blogs discussing the literary component of the story of Judith found in the Apocrypha in light of composer Alexander Serov’s own professed expectations for opera, to…
Nurses in Opera – 22 Jun 2024
A series of five Blogs discussing the literary component of the story of Judith found in the Apocrypha in light of composer Alexander Serov’s own professed expectations for opera, to…
WW2 Army Flight Nurses – 2 Jun 2024
Nurse Pioneers in Aviation This year I had the honor of representing the World War II US Army flight nurses for their induction as a group into the Pioneer…
WW2 Army Flight Nurses – 2 Mar 2024
“Fate dealt us another unlucky blow” Part 2 When CPT Grace Stakeman, Chief Nurse and Unit Historian for the 807 Medical Air Evacuation Squadron [MAES] in Catania, Sicily, penned…
WW2 Army Flight Nurses – 10 Feb 2024
“Fate dealt us another unlucky blow” Part 1 January and February 2024 mark the eightieth anniversary of two tragic events in the 807 Medical Air Evacuation Squadron [MAES] assigned to…
British Women Organists – 20 Jan 2024
Organist Elizabeth Stirling’s Burial Site Last summer when on a trip to England, I finally saw nineteenth-century British organist Elizabeth Stirling’s final resting place. Eilzabeth Stirling at the Organ…