| Lee Williamson | |
I'm a life-long Portland area resident (except for a 15 year period living in various less-cool places). I'm a software developer, but I code to live, not the other way around. I spend probably too much time watching TV when I'm not surfing the web till my butt gets numb. I've got a big interest in history - especially if it's the stuff they never taught you in school. |
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While the news media continues to try to scare us shitless about the H1N1 Influenza virus, the present outbreak has nothing on what happened in 1918. This is a story of how and why my grandfather, grandmother, and my aunt and uncle survived the influenza pandemic of 1918 - without Purell - and due entirely to the intercession of Deadwood, South Dakota's most notorious brothel owner: "Poker Alice". |
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