March 19, 2020

These five Wytheville children were transported to Roanoke Hospital, where they breathed with the assistance of the hospital’s iron lungs.

Wytheville’s ‘Summer Without Children’

What was it that caused one little Virginia mountain town to suddenly find itself faced, in the summer of 1950, with 200 cases of polio amid a population of just 5,500?

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Behind Blue Ridge Country

Even More Sweet Virginia Breezes

Casually cruising to Claytor Lake in southwest Virginia, I felt like I had come home – back to where it

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