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When it comes to Berkeley County healthcare in the 20th century, her name is legendary. Maude Callen, a native of Florida, came to the Lowcountry in 1921 as a missionary nurse and would spend the next 60 years caring for the sick and impoverished in rural Berkeley County, delivering some 800 babies and training other nurse mid-wives. Callen and her work were immortalized by W. Eugene Smith in a Life magazine photo essay in 1951. She is likened to Mother Teresa -- Berkeley County's own saint, if only she were Catholic. Join the Daniel Island Historical Society as we welcome guest speaker Lindsay Street, a journalist and author whose recently published book "Maude Callen: Legendary Nurse-Midwife of South Carolina" explores Callen’s humanity without diminishing her good works. Nurse Callen’s legacy continues to inspire today, but inside her story, there is a mandate to avoid the bystander effect and make a meaningful impact no matter who is watching. So, what can one woman do? Lindsay Street is a journalist rooted in the Lowcountry soil. For more than 20 years, she has reported from newsrooms across Charleston, Beaufort, Dorchester, and Berkeley Counties. Lindsay lives with her husband, Henry, and their two children, Thomas and Arthur, on their small homestead in Berkeley County.
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