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Stories from the Bowen Building: A Podcast on the Peoria State Hospital
Join Alpha Park Public Library for this special series on the history of the Peoria State Hospital in Bartonville, Illinois. We will speak to historians, museum directors, and staff from the hospital! Funding for this podcast was provided by the American Rescue Plan.American Rescue Plan: Humanities Grants for Libraries is an initiative of the American Library Association (ALA) made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) through the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
Stories from the Bowen Building: A Podcast on the Peoria State Hospital
Episode 4: Medical and Technological Advances
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Episode 4
Thank you for joining us for the fourth episode of Stories from the Bowen Building!
This week, we spoke to three different staff members from the Peoria State Hospital, as they chronicle the major technological and medical advances they witnessed in the 1960s and 1970s. We speak to Drs. James Ward and Robert Flanigan, and return again to our conversation with nurse Beverly Ward.
This podcast is sponsored and funded by the American Rescue Plan: Humanities Grants for Libraries, which is an initiative of the American Library Association (ALA) made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) through the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.