Nicole Ferraro: The Summer Of West Nile
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2015
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
A remote disease comes very close to home for Queens resident Nicole Ferraro. Nicole Ferraro is a writer, editor, and storyteller living in NYC. Her personal essays have been published in The New York Times, Story Collider Magazine, The Frisky, Mr. Beller's Neighborhood, and elsewhere. Nicole is also the cohost of New York Story Exchange, a monthly storytelling series at Cornelia Street Cafe. For more information, visit: https://www.facebook.com/NewYorkStoryExchange. By day she earns her keep as the editor in chief of Netted by the Webbys.
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| 0:31.8 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:34.9 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:36.7 | It felt... And I just thought, felt... I was so... |
| 0:38.3 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:40.3 | It was that golden moment... |
| 0:42.3 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:49.3 | Hey, everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:59.6 | This week's story is from Nicole Ferraro. It was recorded in August 2015 at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City. So it's summer, and I am outside wearing jeans, sneakers, socks, a fleece jacket, gloves, and a hat. |
| 1:24.9 | I am not in San Francisco. There is no cold spell. I am in White Stone |
| 1:29.3 | Queens where we're experiencing our standard summer swamp humidity. It's 90 degrees and I'm |
| 1:35.5 | sweltering. But if my friends and I want to go outside and we do because we're 16 and we're |
| 1:41.0 | savoring the end of summer, the police and our parents and the local news |
| 1:45.8 | have all told us that we have to dress like this to protect our skin from the helicopters |
| 1:50.5 | that are spraying pesticides over our neighborhood. Now, if you're not familiar with Whitestone, |
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