Feb 15, 2019
Recently, US News and World Report ranked
Connecticut 4th best among the 50 states in the quality of our
healthcare. We have great research universities and teaching
hospitals, and pharma, biotech, and medical engineering companies
most states envy. That’s what makes this podcast so surprising.
This is the story of how the little Litchfield County hill town of
Sharon – with a population of 2700 people – has produced some of
our state’s leading medical innovators. And it’s been doing so for
centuries.
Join State Historian Walt Woodward on a visit to the Sharon Historical Society where co-curators Susan Shepard and Marge Smith tell us about the breakthroughs in innoculation, immunotherapy, and gender equity in the medical field pioneered by Sharon residents. It’s part of their exhibit “Sharon Cures: Centuries of Medicine in One Small Town”. It’s three stories in one, that will surprise, inform, and make you want to learn more about this town of medical marvels.
While you're listening, view an album of photos from the exhibit on the Connecticut State Historian's Facebook Page
