Most Americans have never heard of Fred and Blair Sadler. That’s pretty wild when you consider how many advances in modern healthcare trace back to their work. Ever dial 911 during a medical emergency? That system did not exist in a coordinated national way before the era the Sadlers helped shape. Know someone whose life was saved through organ donation? The legal framework behind modern organ donation laws carries their fingerprints. Ever been treated by a Physician Assistan

Fifteen years ago, the idea of staging Shakespeare in Scranton carried a slight degree of skepticism amongst those in the New York theater world. But Scranton native Michael Bradshaw Flynn decided to give it a try, crossing his fingers that at least 200 theater fans would show up in support of the Bard. Instead, more than a 1,000 people crammed into Nay Aug Park for a performance of Shakespeare’s celebrated “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” The rest, as they say, is history. In th