Welcome to the very first episode of Our Letters, Ourselves! In this episode you’ll meet at our hosts, Mik Cardoza and Keke Almeida and learn about how they came into possession of over 500 letters from World War II. Mik will read the first letter from Jack, and we’ll dive into this week’s related theme, quarantine. Listen to find out what Day 1 of training in the Coast Guard looks like, scratch the surface of public policy challenges, and find out Mik’s unlikely high school mascot.

Sources:

CDC History of Quarantine

A brief history of quarantines in the United States, Josh Hicks, The Washington Post, October 7, 2014

National Museum of American History Behring Center

She remembers another quarantine in 1948: scarlet fever [I Know a Story column]

ANNE RHOADS BROCKLEY SPECIAL TO LNP May 31, 2020, LNP Lancaster Online

The Frightening History of Typhoid Mary, Veronique Greenwood, March 2015

How Typhoid Mary left a trail of scandal and death, Kevin Connolly, April 20, 2020