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Search National Park Collection at L.L. Bean.com, and be an outsider with L.L. Bean. Clarissa Harlow Barton or Clara as she wished to be called was only 10 years old

when she assigned herself the task of nursing her brother David

back to health after he fell from a roof of a barn and received a severe head

injury. She learned how to distribute the prescribed medication to her brother

as well as how to place leeches on his body

to bleed him, a standard treatment at the time. She continued to care for David long after doctors

had given up. He made a full recovery.

In this difficult time in the world we look to our heroes from the past as inspiration

to help us find the resolution to possess even a small fraction of their helping

spirit.

Clara Barton's life's work began with her brother David, but never ceased.

The effects of her tenacity have rippled through the generations, and in fact the response to today's pandemic crisis

may have been very different where she never born.

I'm Jason Epperson and this is the America's National Parks Podcast. Today, one of the most

decorated women in American history and the Clara Barton National Historic Site. Clara was a timid child all through her early life. To overcome her shyness,

her parents persuaded her to become a school teacher.

She achieved her first teacher certificate in 1839 at only 17 years old.

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