The true story of Candy Land and its creator Eleanor Abbott
via infoplease.com
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Polio swept through the United States in the ‘40s. By 1948, it was a full-on epidemic that led to 42,173 cases and 2,720 deaths in 1949 alone — and young children were the most vulnerable. Eleanor Abbott was around 38 years old when she contracted polio. At the time, she’d worked repairing watches for a […]