Iron Lung

Many of these were used during height of the polio epidemic. Peggy McCormick lived in one of these until she was fifty years old. She was a patient of Dr. Joe B. Hall, one of the museum's board members. She painted with her teeth and tongue to offset some of her medical expenses. She also composed many beautiful poems that were published for and these she also sold. Local people remember seeing her in the lung painting over in Prairie Grove during the early Clothesline Fairs.