The major destinations for the Long Trips between 1937 and 1941 were coal and steel areas of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Salvatore Vascellaro's dissertation includes interviews with participants from the 1937 Long Trip. He describes how Lucy Sprague Mitchell "divided the students into groups to shadow visiting nurses. The nurses' rounds frequently took the students 'way into the country' (Betty Clulow 1937). Marguerite Hurrey Wolf (1937 I) remembered how patients were so glad to see the nurse; she offered 'the only medical care in the community.' For Wolf and others, it was this experience of visiting the miners' families, more than any other, that 'struck home'" (p. 163).
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