“What were the actual ravages of the epidemic of influenza from which this community has been suffering?” asks the opening line of an article published in the Amesbury Daily News on October 29, 1918. This is one record that marks Amesbury’s first encounter with the Spanish flu, a situation that has been compared to today’s COVID-19 epidemic due to its abrupt and resounding impacts felt worldwide.
Much has been published in answer to the question posed over a century ago alongside restoration and rebuilding. While we may not have a clear picture yet of how—or more urgently, when—our present-day destructions will be repaire
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