October 20, 2000

A Historian's Tale, and a Mother's, Too

By SCOTT HELLER

Her son falls ill, and a book project changes directions

It was only his elbow. And he was a kid, after all, able to snap back in a minute, to brush himself off and charge on, smiling.

So when a schoolteacher called to tell Joan L. Richards that her 10-year-old son, Ned, had fallen in the playground and hurt his arm, she didn't panic.

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