Join us in the gallery 10 am Wednesday, February 12 for Old Friends Talk Art. Mary Osborne is the Director of the Stewart House, which is the birthplace of Kappa Kappa Gamma. Mary will present on "Transatlantic Romance During the Great War" and Mary M. Crawford's life. This event is free and open to the public and sponsored by the Jim and Jan DeYoung Charitable Trust. See you in the gallery!
During World War I, Dr. Mary M. Crawford spent nearly a year volunteering at the American Ambulance Hospital in France. Among the first American physicians to join the Allied war effort in 1914, she was the only woman doctor on the hospital staff. Her diary and letters, presented here with historical context, narrate day-to-day life in a hospital on the Western Front, with clinical descriptions of the human toll at the battles of Ypres and Champagne. Torn between devotion to family and her commitment to the war effort, Crawford reveals her dedication to her patients, many of whom were French colonial soldiers.
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