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History Calendar - November 2022

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The next MHA Dinner meeting will be held Monday, November 21st in the Fellowship Hall at Trinity Presbyterian Church, 3115 Providence Road, Charlotte, NC 28211. Dinner begins at 6:30 p.m. and the featured program begins at 7:15 p.m.  RSVPs, boxed dinner orders (if you are planning on eating), and checks made out to “Mecklenburg Historical Association” must be received by mail no later than Wednesday/November 16th. 

Featured speaker Richard Eller will present a program about the “Miracle of Hickory”, the story of a small medical team who responded to the polio epidemic of 1944 and rallied community-wide efforts to treat infantile paralysis (polio). combat the polio outbreak in 1944. In 54 hours, volunteers created an emergency hospital to combat the disease, accepting over 500 patients statewide to treat the disease. The topic has relevant themes in the COVID-world from 2000 to the present.