After graduating from Iola High School in 2008, Elizabeth Cunningham enrolled in Allen Community College and entered upon a course of study that would make her, in time, an art teacher.
But plans change and courses alter. One day in art class, maybe she was daubing away at some old canvas, Cunningham heard on the classroom radio a transmission from a better world. “It was classical music,” said Cunningham. “I just kept thinking, ‘Wow, I wish I was doing that instead.’ The whole time I just thought: That might mean something for me. Just hearing it made me…
