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I’d like to thank you on behalf of the Boswell family for your warm welcome to me and the two daughters and other grandchildren of Dr. Bowell who recently cam to visit the museum and center.
Dr. Boswell’s two remaining children, Babs Stauss and Peggy Johnson, provided us grandchildren with a colorful and moving series of memories that day of the Sanatorium back in the 1920’s and 30’s, when it was its heyday. They talked about the life of the children in the preventoruim, whose minimal clothing was based on my grandfather’s belief that children were “overfed, overdressed, and over-mothered!” They also described a world in which they and their brother (my Dad) and two sisters freely mingled with the tuberculosis patients, despite the fear that disease inspired in the general populace.
I was only two when “Doc” died, so I have no memories of “the San,” as they referred to it. Hearing my older cousins and my aunts share stories brought back an simpler era long gone now but preserved in the Boswell Regional center. We all thank you for maintaining the wonderful museum so that people can comprehend what the world was like before penicillin, and the sacrifices so many made to provide a refuge for those with the dread disease of TB
Sincerely,
Pat Boswell
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
