Today, I’m tracing New York resident Edna Odell’s experience of WWI; serving as a nurse with the American Red Cross, working with war orphans as part of the Children’s Bureau, and eventually adopting two children herself. This episode is the product of the research I’ve been doing as a volunteer for the Friends of the Odell House Rochambeau HQ, which has been an absolute blast and pulled me down numerous rabbit holes!
Learn more and bibliography available at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P4auo4LKMsvUpSNrvW5xQZeIfBaLjCjgQxtxC1ZL-zY/edit?usp=sharing
