Alzheimer’s no black and white malady

Monday, September 19th, 2011

Slowly, the memories of Vivian VanWinkle’s life are slipping away. She doesn’t recall the year her husband, Thomas “Rip” VanWinkle, died. She remembers growing up in the bottoms outside of Pocahontas, Ark. “I wasn’t a hillbilly though,” she said. Instead, Vivian’s family lived on the flat, sandy ground down from ... continue reading