Terry Foody, RN, MSN, is a public speaker, historian, author and avid cross country runner. Terry has worked in community health, taught nursing at Kentucky State University, and coordinated research projects for new medicines/treatments at the University of Kentucky. A native of Elmira, New York, her maternal line traces to Bourbon County, firmly rooting her in the Kentucky Bluegrass.
SPEAKING TOPICS
- Infectious Disaster: 1833 Cholera Epidemic in Lexington, KY
- Kinsmen in Words: Cherokee Sequoyah & Howard Gratz
- Search for Ancestors Land: New Yorker Finds Old Kentucky Home
- What’s in Wolf Run Water: Community Health Impact Survey
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NON-FICTION BOOKS by Terry Foody
- The Pie Seller, the Drunk and the Lady: Heroes of the 1833 Cholera Epidemic in Lexington, Kentucky. Lessons for Our Global Health Today. (2014)
- The Cherokee and the Newsman: Kinsmen in Words. The Story of Sequoyah, inventor of the Cherokee alphabet and his half-nephew, Howard Gratz, editor of the Kentucky Gazette. (2017)
Homepage cholera epidemic image from Le Petit Journal, 1912: ""Turkish army defeated by cholera, not by enemy fire."
Terry Foody photograph at left courtesy of Lexington Herald-Leader.