Visit the Harper Collins Speakers Bureau,
harpercollinsspeakersbureau.com for information about scheduling producer Lorie Conway for a talk and screening
of Forgotten Ellis Island.
Forgotten Ellis Island has been featured on NPR's "The Story with Dick Gordon," listen to former patient John Henry Wilberding describe his experience in the hospital with measles as a young 7 year old immigrant from Germany.
I heard John Henry Wilberding tell his story of being hospitalized with the measles on Dick Gordon's show. It made me wonder how we could have treated immigrants so well a hundred years ago and today reject them with such a vengeance. Aren't we a nation of immigrants, after all?
