Oral history interview with Nancy Trujillo, 2008 January 15.

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Oral history interview with Nancy Trujillo, 2008 January 15.

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Nancy Trujillo talks about her family and growing up on a farm near Farragut, Iowa; the polio scare in the 1940s; contracting polio at age six and being put in isolation at the Douglas County Hospital in Omaha; developing a love for reading during her time in the hospital; unpleasant memories of rehabilitation time spent in the Hattie B. Munroe Home for Children in Omaha; learning to use crutches called Kenny sticks; graduating from Farragut High School; attending college in Missouri; her teaching career in Denver, Colorado; various post-polio symptoms; the benefits of the Americans with Disabilities Act; and raising her active family.

Transcript: 10 leaves + copies of photos and correspondenceSound recording: 1 sound cassette

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Iowa Polio Stories Oral History Project.

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The State Library of Iowa hired Kate Scott to coordinate an oral history project to document the history and impact of polio in Iowa. Interviewees represented counties across Iowa and ranged in age from 55 to 96 and included medical personnel, family members and friends of the afflicted, and polio survivors. The project was carried out in conjunction with the State Library's Center for the Book All Iowa Reads selection for 2007, The Splendid Solution by Jeffrey Kluger. From the descr...

Trujillo, Nancy, b. 1939,

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Scott, Kate.

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Hattie B. Munroe Home for Children (Omaha, Neb.)

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