In January, 2015 Rebecca Poulson recorded a special interview with Brownie Thompson and Marge Ward, who both happened to arrive in Sitka as adventurous young nurses in 1949. If you missed it on the air, you can listen to it in its entirety here!
Learn what it was like on the grim and demanding frontier of the tuberculosis epidemic, and kick off the Alaska Day theme, “Celebrating the Nurses of the Last Frontier.”