This was part of the first book I self-published in 2009, The State Sanatorium at Sabillasville from 1908. At that time, I asked Dick to write something relative to the sanatorium for the book. My late brother, Dick (1936-2024), and I had a great relationship. His wife, Mary Ellen, and family and I are still…

By Joan Fry I was born in 1940, the youngest of five children, and lived my childhood during WWII near Fort Ritchie Military Base and the Maryland State Sanatorium for tuberculosis. I idolized my Daddy and would jump with glee when I heard him rumble across the wooden bridge in his old Ford sedan. That…