Song of Haiti Author:Barry Paris This moving story of a couple who left a life of wealth and luxury to found a hospital in rural Haiti is a vibrant and inspiring portrait of a marriage, of two cultures, and of the practice of medicine in the Third World. The youngest of the sons of William L. Mellon, Larimer Mellon seemed destined to follow his father and uncles into a life of ... more »high finance and wealth accumulation. But Larry Mellon was made of different stuff. Graduating from medical school in his mid-forties, Mellon and his wife Gwen, a medical lab technician, left their comfortable Arizona ranch and moved to poverty-stricken Haiti. In the Artibonite Valley, where life expectancy was the lowest in the hemisphere, they built the Albert Schweitzer Hospital. Larry Mellon served as a physician there for the rest of his life. And Gwen Mellon, now in her eighties, still lives in Haiti and works for the hospital. Written by an acclaimed biographer, Song of Haiti bridges the worlds of the super-rich and the very poor and finds in a lonely valley in Haiti a mystery, a love story, and an inspiration. 24pp. photos.« less