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Call the Midwife: Mary Breckinridge & the Frontier Nursing Service

Program Type:

Author Visits, Research

Age Group:

Adults
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This March in honor of Women’s History Month, NCPL welcomes Dr. Melanie Goan, Professor of History from the University of Kentucky & speaker for the Kentucky Humanities, for a presentation on the Frontier Nursing Service created in 1925 by Mary Breckinridge, whose nurse-midwives became famously known as "Angels on Horseback." Join us on Tuesday, March 18th, at 6 pm, in Main Branch Community Room #1 to learn more about Breckinridge's pioneering medical service, the challenges involved in bringing new lives into the world in mountain communities, & discover how she made health care more accessible & affordable, offering lessons that continue to matter today.