When Goshen resident Dick Conrad’s immune system attacked his muscles in August of 2008, leaving him totally paralyzed, in August of 2008, he faced up to a recovery period that included months in the hospital and more in a wheelchair.
But according to his wife Judith Irven, Conrad’s response was to make “lemons into lemonade” — he sat down and taught himself to use photography software to edit the best of some 15,000 photographs he’d never taken a second look at. Now 12 of those photographs are on display at Carol’s Hungry Mind in Middlebury through the end of March.
Read the rest of his story here, and watch a slideshow of photos in “Addison County Impressions” below.