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Title
FHS Postcard Meg Costello
Description
Written piece entitled "Dr. Francis Wicks House," by Meg Costello, inspired by a historic postcard
Creator
Meg Costello
Source
Wish You Were Here: Postcards from the Past
Date
2023
Format
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Language
English
Type
Creative writing
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Dr. Francis Wicks House
Frank Wicks waits on his balcony, lost in memories.
Saluting General Washington. Dressing wounds in the field camp,
while the better educated doctors called him a quack.
Years of battling smallpox, bad luck, and his own temper.
He’d clawed for the respectability this house symbolizes.
Now the medical establishment wants to regulate who can practice medicine.
But he’s not done yet.
He strokes the vial in his hand, filled with deadly virus.
They need it for their experiment.
Hoofbeats approach; the courier from Cambridge reins in below.
Frank laughs, triumphant.
He didn’t go to Harvard, but Harvard came to him.
Meg Costello
Frank Wicks waits on his balcony, lost in memories.
Saluting General Washington. Dressing wounds in the field camp,
while the better educated doctors called him a quack.
Years of battling smallpox, bad luck, and his own temper.
He’d clawed for the respectability this house symbolizes.
Now the medical establishment wants to regulate who can practice medicine.
But he’s not done yet.
He strokes the vial in his hand, filled with deadly virus.
They need it for their experiment.
Hoofbeats approach; the courier from Cambridge reins in below.
Frank laughs, triumphant.
He didn’t go to Harvard, but Harvard came to him.
Meg Costello
Item Relations
| This Item | dcterms:references | Item: Falmouth Historical Society, Falmouth, Mass. |
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