Where Courage Began: Velma's Story

Where Courage Began: Velma's Story

A blizzard rages outside a ramshackle Iowa farmhouse in February of 1921. Five-year-old Velma and her older sister stand near a glowing Isinglass stove charged with minding their two younger brothers.…

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