Strasburg Dialogue Series - My Voice, Your Voice, One Voice: The Language of Disability

A program of word, song, dance and medical science celebrating the 30th anniversary of Meadowood and the ideals of the community’s co-founders, William and Sylvia Strasburg. Featuring: James H. Cook, MD, neurologist and head of the Abington Movement Disorders Center, Abington Hospital Lisa Lovelace, dancer/choreographer, faculty member at West Chester University and co-creator of the dance performance “I Am” with Reverend Nellie Greene (1952-2016), who suffered a severe traumatic brain injury at age 18 that left her immobile and unable to speak. Yet she was a graduate of the Yale Divinity School and lived a productive life as an ordained Episcopal deacon. Helen Mirkil, poet, painter, and longtime friend of Nellie Greene Brian H. Peterson, Marguerite and Gerry Lenfest Chief Curator (retired), James A. Michener Art Museum, diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease in 2007 Music provided by the folk duo “Too Many Cooks,” Lesley Weissman-Cook and James Cook