Henry Sandwith "Harry" Drinker was a brilliant Philadelphia lawyer and a famed musicologist who befriended the von Trapp family when they arrived at Ellis Island.  His wife Sophie Hutchinson Drinker was one of the founders of women's musicological and gender studies.

Cecil Drinker, MD, was a gifted physiologist who published more than 250 papers and did the original studies on The Radium Girls.  His wife Katherine Rotan Drinker, MD, was his lifelong partner in research and publications.

Catherine "Kitty" Drinker Bowen was an accomplished amateur violinist who wrote best-selling and prize-winning biographies and history tomes, although she never earned a college degree.

Three more members of the Drinker family for you know, all buried together on a hillside at Laurel Hill West.  Plus, you will learn about the iron lung, the Philadelphia origins of the Book-of-the-Month Club, and an amateur choir of 150 voices that gathered every Sunday evening for 30 years without ever performing in public.  It's another jam-packed edition of All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories.  Harry, Cecil, and Kitty: Three More Drinker Siblings to Know.  

 

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