MOUNT VERNON — Area residents are invited to attend a special presentation by Fredericktown nurse and best-selling Amazon author Kim Sloan, BSN, on Wednesday evening, Oct. 9, at 7:30 p.m. She will discuss her book Memoirs from the Frontline of COVID.

Sloan will present at the Knox County Historical Society Museum, 875 Harcourt Road.

Since 2017, Kim and her husband, John, have traveled the United States as Intensive Care Unit and Emergency Room travel Registered Nurses. Their lives changed dramatically, however, in February 2020, when they extended their assignment at a small-town hospital in Southern Georgia that was to become a major epicenter for COVID. There, they would see more deaths in a few months than in all their prior years of nursing combined.

For the next two years, Kim’s regular Facebook posts kept her family and friends educated on the status of the pandemic. With special attention to patient care and confidentiality, her posts provided an authentic view of what an ICU nurse experienced throughout the worst pandemic her generation had seen.

Earlier this year, Kim published her book — Memoirs from the Frontlines of COVID: Four States, Two Years, One Pandemic — which includes hundreds of her daily postings recounting her story for us all. Amazon recently listed it as a major best-seller online.

Her museum program will include a beautifully illustrated PowerPoint presentation and an opportunity for questions and comments. The program is free and open to the public, and all persons interested in both early and recent history are invited to attend, and to stay awhile afterward to view our many Knox County Museum exhibits.

For more information, visit the website at www.knoxhistory.org, call 740-393-5247, or visit the Museum on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. through Nov. 30.