History columnist to address club

Janice Dunnahoo, weekly “Historic Anecdotes” columnist for the Roswell Daily Record, will speak to the Rotary Club on March 30.

Dunnahoo

Janice’s presentation, entitled “When Health Care Came to Roswell,” will cover the history of health care here; the beginnings of St. Mary’s Hospital; and tuberculosis bringing many settlers to this area, seeking the dry air and sunshine.

Janice regularly contributes to the West Texas Historical Association, the Texas-New Mexico Border Archives, the Wild West History Association Journal, and True West Magazine, most recently contributing an article about cattle drives and chuckwagons. The article comes out next month.

She also is a former archivist for the Historical Society for Southeastern New Mexico.

In 2020, she was a panelist for the Western History Association Conference; and in 2021, she participated in the New Mexico Humanities Council conference.