On this episode of Our American Stories when you stop and think about it we've come a long way in the past years especially when it comes to medicine Joy Neal Kidney tells the story of a time not far removed from our own but drastically different A story of heartbreaking loss - and how much we depend on modern inoculations Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate See omnystudio com listener for privacy information [... more]

On this episode of Our American Stories sports journalist Jim O'Brian tells us the story of the founding owner of the Steelers Legend Art Rooney Sr Joy Neal Kidney author of Leora's Letters tells us the story of the many diseases people contracted during the great depression and how they carried on Keycap artist known as Tiny Makes Things shares her story of when she decided that she wanted to quit her job and start her own business making artisan keycaps for mechanical keyboards Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate Time Codes - Two Funerals One Steelers Legend [... more]

It started with a tickle in my throat Uh oh I thought That tickle turned out to be influenza And that was just the beginning of bronchial affliction Influenza morphed into whooping cough mdash yes that whooping cough mdash and that turned into pneumonia Eight weeks of torso-wracking coughing mdash it rsquo s not called whooping cough for nothing mdash has left me humbled I don rsquo t think of myself as old But I rsquo m old enough to start thinking about heading that direction A member of my church rsquo s small group has a funny name for [... more]