In this episode, I talk with Ellen Damsky, PhD, an expert on the Adirondack Cottage Sanatorium established in New York State in the late 1880s by Edward Livingston Trudeau. Ellen’s doctoral dissertation, “A Way of Life: Saranac Lake and the ‘Fresh Air Cure’ for Tuberculosis,” is a great piece of writing about the history of the Sanatorium and its founder. In our discussion, we talk about why many former patients told Ellen that they considered their stay at the Trudeau Sanatorium some of the best times of their lives.