“Well Read” July 2026 #48 pp 130-141 “Authors Interviewing Authors” Toby LeBlanc queries Amos Jasper Wright IV about his new novel “The Battle of Danziger Bridge” & more tinyurl.com/48n8faxe #amosjasperwrightIV #literaryfiction #southernfiction

1893 July 6: French author Guy de Maupassant died; born 5 Aug 1850. He suffered from migraines & self-medicated with ether; story "Afloat" based on that. Described the effect of ether in his 1888 story “Dreams” tinyurl.com/yb5jvwwy & tinyurl.com/y7anxj8x #medicalhistory

Today’s Find: Nurse cut-out doll with uniforms & off-duty clothes ca. 1944 tinyurl.com/2p83ehax #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory

1917 Aug 5: Cardiac surgeon John W. Kirklin was born tinyurl.com/y93747to He had a long career at Mayo & the Univ of Alabama at Birmingham. He died 21 April 2004 #histmed #medcialhistory #alabama

2020 July 25: Actor John Saxon died tinyurl.com/y4kmnnqq Among his many roles was Dr. Ted Stuart, surgeon at a private clinic in "The New Doctors" TV series 1969-72 tinyurl.com/kn63kqt He was born 5 Aug 1936 He's on the left with David Hartman and E.G. Marshall #medicaltv #medicalhistory

Over 1000 works created by Huntsville, Alabama artist Carolyn Shores Wright [1929-2023] now available on Fine Art America for prints, mugs, greeting cards etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly watercolors for 50 yrs. "Little Mischief Cherub"

Today's Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post "Dan Dunn's Creator Crash Lands in Siluria!" tinyurl.com/ksvbj2g #alabama #alabamayesterdays

Today’s Find: “Doctors & Friends” by novelist/physician Kimmery Martin explores the lives of 3 female doctors who have remained friends since medical school & now face a pandemic tinyurl.com/yckjn8tx #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfiction

1805 Apr 2: Danish writer Hans C. Andersen was born. He witnessed James Young Simpson & others experimenting w/ether while dining at Simpson's in Edinburgh on 17 Aug 1847 tinyurl.com/uvzxugy #histmed #medhistory Died 4 Aug 1875

Today's Find: Chicago "Day Book" newspaper article 4 Aug 1915 "Twilight Sleep Gives Better Babies, with Better Brains & Bodies" tinyurl.com/ydgoupkn Written by Mary Boyd of the Twilight Sleep Assoc of NY #histmed #medicalhistory

Over 1000 works created by Huntsville, Alabama artist Carolyn Shores Wright [1929-2023] now available on Fine Art America for prints, mugs, greeting cards etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly watercolors for 50 yrs. "Meeting Place"

Today's Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post "Film Actresses from Alabama Before 1960: A List" tinyurl.com/k63bzz3 #alabama #alabamayesterdays

Today’s Find: 1942 film “Parachute Nurse” about the U.S. Aerial Nurse Corps tinyurl.com/mfcsupv7 The Corps was created in 1936 by Lauretta M. Schimmoler, technical advisor on the film tinyurl.com/ch38wrys #histmed #histnursing #medicalfilm #medicalhistory #nursinghistory

Today's Vintage Book Cover: Arlene Hale [1924-1982] wrote more than 100 romances under various pseudonyms; many are medical tinyurl.com/2p9h4ak2 This one first published in 1965 #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfiction

Today's Find: Irish author, journalist & soldier in the American Civil War Charles G. Halpine died by chloroform in NYC 3 Aug 1868 tinyurl.com/gpxsbod #histmed #medicalhistory

1922 Oct 23: Actress Colleen Gray born tinyurl.com/y4bs2cd2 Among her many roles was the 1950 film noir "The Sleeping City" with Richard Conte, filmed at Bellevue Hospital in NYC. She played nurse Ann Sebastian tinyurl.com/oxpy5wq She died 3 Aug 2015 #medicalfilm #medicalhistory

Today’s Find: Henry Tanner’s 1917 portrait of Booker T. Washington tinyurl.com/5eb2up86 In 1891 Tanner’s sister Halle Dillon became the first certified female physician in #Alabama, hired by Washington to work at #Tuskegee Institute tinyurl.com/ta7aa2j2 #bookertwashington

Today’s Find: Prolific #Alabama author Tom Roan’s story “Son of Frozen Hell” in “Big-Book Western” July 1948. More on Roan at tinyurl.com/bdfr3heh

Today’s Find: “Saturday Evening Post” cover 22 Oct 1949 “Leaving the Hospital” by Stevan Dohanos tinyurl.com/bdnrdhn8 In addition to those for other magazines, Dohanos created 125 Post covers in the 1940’s & 1950’s #histmed #medicalhistory

Today’s Find: 1959 western film “The Hanging Tree” in which Gary Cooper—doctor, gambler, gunman—arrives in a small Montana town hoping to set up a practice tinyurl.com/mwmwd3h4 Based on the novelette by Dorothy M. Johnson tinyurl.com/54eh5b3z #histmed #medicalhistory

Today’s Find: In the 5th season episode of “Monk”, “Mr. Monk Goes to the Hospital”, 2 March 2007, the detective goes to an emergency room for a nosebleed & stumbles into a murder tinyurl.com/3dfmjjrd Set almost entirely in the hospital #histmed #medicalhistory #medicaltv

Today's Find: 2 Aug 1915 Chicago Day Book newspaper item "Mother of 'Twilight Sleep' Baby Brings Message to 'Martyrs of Motherhood'" tinyurl.com/yb24sddg #histmed #medicalhistory

"Jack and Jill" July 1966. This "better magazine for boys & girls" began in 1938 & continues today en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_an... Alabama Yesterday blog posts on a childhood subscription at tinyurl.com/3xvzyar7 & tinyurl.com/yvfxkdwf #alabamayesterdays #childrensmagazine

‘That Cemetery Lady’ writes book highlighting Alabama cemeteries in every county www.wsfa.com/2026/08/01/t...

‘That Cemetery Lady’ writes book highlighting Alabama cemeteries in every county

For some folks, a cemetery can be a sad reminder, for others maybe a little creepy. For Mollie Smith Waters, it’s the chance to tell a story, and connect you to the past.

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Today’s Find: Alabama Yesterdays new blog post “Red Hot & Lovely in Gadsden in 1941” tinyurl.com/3d9a9rvn #alabama #alabamayesterdays

Today’s Find: “Pneumonia: Its Care & Prevention” a 1940 pamphlet from the John Hancock insurance company tinyurl.com/2p8kxj38 #histmed #medicalhistory

Today's Vintage Book Cover: This title first published 1962 tinyurl.com/t2z2eh3r Kate Starr was one of 2 pseudonyms author Joyce Dingwell [1908-1997] used for 80 romances 1931-86 tinyurl.com/5n74vacx #histnursing #nursinghistory #medicalfiction #medicalhistory

1774 Aug 1: One of Joseph Priestley's experiments released a gas that turned out to be oxygen bit.ly/1kq1ZLG #histmed #medicalhistory

1901 Dec 17: Janet G. Travell a pioneer in the treatment of myofascial pain was born in NYC. She was also JFK's White House physician tinyurl.com/k9nuv3nc She died 1 Aug 1997 #histmed #medicalhistory

Over 1000 works created by Huntsville, Alabama artist Carolyn Shores Wright [1929-2023] now available on Fine Art America for prints, mugs, greeting cards etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly watercolors for 50 yrs. "Near the Garden"